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I've never understood the "so what" of this study. Did people not think self control was a virtuous characteristic before? Will they stop trying to teach their

by tqi 2y ago

I've never understood the "so what" of this study. Did people not think self control was a virtuous characteristic before? Will they stop trying to teach their kids to exercise self control now that it's been debunked? Sometimes it feels like much of social psychology exists primarily to sell books and lecture series tickets.

tqi 2y ago
(that said, i'd love to see a study to see if there is a correlation between ability to resist wading into contentious comment threads on hackernews can "reliably predict adult functioning")