Self-Control: How to Help Your Seven-Year-Old Make Responsible Choices Self-Control: How to Help Your Seven-Year-Old Make Responsible Choices Emotions influence behavior. Part of growing up is ...

When it comes to self-control, adolescents tend to follow the patterns their parents establish, according to West Virginia ...

In the 1960s, a Stanford psychologist ran an experiment to study children's self-control. It's called the marshmallow test. And it's super simple. Kids ages 3 to 5 choose a treat — an Oreo cookie, a ...

The folks who brought us the marshmallow test have some unlikely news: children today have more self-control than ever. That conclusion is based on more than 50 years of results from the iconic test, ...

Teenagers who take part in arts and cultural activities, such as dance, drama, reading and going to concerts, are less likely to engage in antisocial and criminalized behavior up to two years later, ...