Self-Control: How to Help Four-Year-Olds Make Good Choices Self-Control: How to Help Four-Year-Olds Make Good Choices Emotions influence behavior. Part of growing up is learning how to manage our ...

Self-control keeps us from eating a whole bag of chips or from running up the credit card. A new study says that self-control makes the difference between getting a good job or going to jail — and we ...

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 ...

It's a skill, we are learning, that profoundly shapes lives. How does it work? Where does it come from? The scientific community is increasingly coming to realize how central self-control is to many ...