Rational snacking: Young children's decision-making on the marshmallow task is moderated by beliefs about environmental reliability

Cognition

Volumn 126, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 109-114

  Kidd, Celeste ^a   Palmeri, Holly ^a   Aslin, Richard N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Child learning; Decision making; Delay of gratification; Marshmallow task; Rational analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; DECISION MAKING; DEFENSE MECHANISM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FAST FOOD; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SELF CONTROL; SOCIAL BELIEF; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AGING; ATTITUDE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CULTURE; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCES; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; REWARD; SELF CONCEPT; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 84868339978     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2012.08.004     Document Type: Article

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