Your Brain Is Not an Onion with a Tiny Reptile Insidehttps://psyarxiv.com/x83dq/
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"In reliable environments, waiting to eat a second marshmallow is likely to be beneficial. However, in environments where rewards are uncertain, as when experimenters are unreliable, eating the single marshmallow now may be beneficial (Kidd, Palmeri, & Aslin, 2013)."
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"Thus, impulsivity can be understood as an adaptive response to the contingencies present in an unstable environment, rather than a moral failure in which animalistic drives overwhelm human rationality."


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Imagining a 5-year old solemnly staring at a marshmallow, obsessed with the act of not-eating, distracting herself by fidgeting, and calling that the behavioral ideal makes me feel ill
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