How to Not Eat the Marshmallow: Strategies to Increase Self-Control

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How to Not Eat the Marshmallow: Strategies to Increase Self-Control

In the 1960s Dr. Walter Mischel conducted a series of now legendary studies at Stanford University assessing delayed gratification. In the study preschoolers were given marshmallows and had the choice of immediately enjoying them (immediate gratification) or waiting 15 minutes to earn an additional treat (delayed gratification).

Those children have been tracked over the past 50 years and Dr. Mischel has found that the children who displayed the ability to delay gratification have been consistently more ...

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Choosing to Respond

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Choosing to Respond

Parents often feel ineffective at managing their children’s behaviors and, as a result, become increasingly agitated when trying to set limits or implement consequences. Becoming emotionally escalated during these interactions actually makes the parent less effective and exacerbates the parent’s sense of helplessness.

When an individual is making decisions from an emotionally reactive position ...

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Meditation May Boost Compassion Towards Others

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Meditation May Boost Compassion Towards Others

As little as eight weeks of meditation training may be able to increase an individual's compassion for others, according to a recent article in the New York Times by Dr. David DeSteno.

Dr. DeSteno conducted a study of individual's compassion towards other's in the face of suffering. He found that people demonstrated increased rates of compassion after they completed an eight week meditation course. His hypothesis is that ...

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Highlight the Benefits of Honesty to Increase it in Children

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Highlight the Benefits of Honesty to Increase it in Children

Teaching the benefits of honesty is more effective than teaching the negative consequences of lying, according to a recent study which explored means of increasing honesty in children.

Dr. Kang Lee, a professor of human development and applied psychology at the University of Toronto,  has spent over a decade studying honesty and dishonesty in children, according to a recent article in the Wall Street Journal. In June 2014 Dr. Lee published a study in Psychological Science which looked at the impact morality based stories have upon the probability that a child will be honest.

According to Dr. Lee ...

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