This would be an easy research experiment for graduate students. Try a similar test on stroke patients, will those who have the self-control to wait do better in recovery? I await the answer, the ASA, NSA or WSO should fund such a study, I bet it would be cheap enough they could do it out of pocket change. Graduate students work cheap.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_marshmallow_experiment
The Stanford marshmallow experiment[1] refers to a series of studies on delayed gratification in the late 1960s and early 1970s led by psychologist Walter Mischel, then a professor at Stanford University. In these studies, a child was offered a choice between one small reward (sometimes a marshmallow,
but often a cookie or a pretzel, etc.) provided immediately or two
small rewards if he or she waited until the experimenter returned (after
an absence of approximately 15 minutes). In follow-up studies, the
researchers found that children who were able to wait longer for the
preferred rewards tended to have better life outcomes, as measured by SAT scores,[2] educational attainment,[3] body mass index (BMI)[4] and other life measures.[5]
However, recent work calls into question whether self-control, as
opposed to strategic reasoning, determines children's behavior.[6]
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