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The Struggles of a Psychologist Studying Self-Control
- templeos2 12y agoI waste all my time talking to a God damn nigger who understands nothing. Duh! What's a government random number site for? "You hacked it. How am I supposed to know?"
- araes 12y agoInteresting article. I have done something similar to the delayed gratification techniques described in it for years, but I never knew they had a name for the concept. Usually I just think about it like "tricking" myself. Like, when I was smoking a lot more, I would tell myself, "I'll have a smoke after I finish this task" and would then start something that I knew would distract me until the craving passed. Or with a friend of mine's Dad, I still see him visiting their apartment while wheezing as he struggled to open his lungs enough to get a breath. Died a week later, and she still smokes a pack a day. Boggles my mind, as for me, that was absolutely terrifying, and I almost can't not hear that sound when someone offers me a cig.
- schalab 12y agoIn my experience, the intensity of desire and the subsequent pleasure produced varies widely across different people. The facets of the marshmallow experiment used to accredit certain kids as having picked up highly mature techniques in delaying gratification, can perhaps be equally explained by their desire levels not exceeding the threshold required to overpower their cognitive functions. Certain kids love marshmallows to the point that they disobey orders, while certain kids do not. That to me is just as feasible an explanation.
- alex_duf 12y agoI think the full experiment give the choice of the treat. "Mischel’s team would present a child with a treat (marshmallows were just one option) and tell her that she..."