Episode 189 - Self-Control

ABA Inside Track

Robert Parry-Cruwys

Social Sciences, Science, Education

4.7 • 634 Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2021

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

While waiting for more marshmallows could correlate to a brighter future, self-control may not be everything it's cracked up to be. This week we look at research on the subject to find out whether clinicians can effectively teach a delay to gratification and, more importantly, if we should. Plus, a board game review from Rob!

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Articles discussed this episode:

Schweitzer, J.B. & Suzler-Azaroff, B. (1988). Self-control: Teaching tolerance for delay in impulsive children. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 50, 173-186. doi: 10.1901/jeab.1988.50-173

Dixon, M.R., & Holcomb, S. (2000). Teaching self-control to small groups of dually diagnosed adults. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 33, 611-614. doi: 10.1901/jaba.2000.33-611

Kidd, C., Palmeri, H., & Aslin, R.N. (2013). Rational snacking: Young children's decision-making on the marshmallow task is moderated by beliefs about environmental reliability. Cognition, 126, 109-114. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2012.08.004

Watts, T.W., Duncan, D.J., & Quan, H. (2018). Revisiting the marshmallow test: A conceptual replication investigating links between early delay of gratification and later outcomes. Psychological Science, 29, 1159-1177. doi: 10.1177/0956797618761661

Anzman-Frasca, S., Singh, A., Curry, D., Tauriello, S., Epstein, L.H., Faith, M.S., Reardon, K., & Paper, D. (2020). Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 1-11. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.581025

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0:00.0	Hey everybody. Welcome to ABA Inside Track, the podcast. That's like reading in your car, but safer.
0:20.2	I'm your host Robert Perry
0:21.2	Cruz and with me as always are my fabulous co-hosts. It's December. It's still a
0:26.9	December episode? Yep. Oh. Hey Rob, it's Diana. And it's me, Jackie. Oh, everyone loves that
0:34.0	running gag where you guys are going to switch the order at some point, but based on our recording schedule, no one knows what date is coming out.
0:41.5	Hopefully you, the listeners, will be receiving this episode on time.
0:45.7	Well, this is not a podcast about scheduling other podcasts.
0:48.5	It's a podcast about behavior analysis and behavior analytic research where every week we pick a topic and discuss relevant research
0:55.1	articles this week being no exception and to talk about this article I think we all should
1:01.9	just take a moment and wait.
1:05.1	I don't want to wait anymore.
1:06.7	I hate it too, Jackie.
1:07.8	I hate waiting.
1:08.7	That probably means we're big failures in life.
1:11.0	We're failures and we're dumb and we have high BMI's because we can't wait.
1:14.8	You know, it's very, the most important skill of all time, waiting.
1:18.3	I actually have no self-control.
1:21.0	And that's what today's topic's about.
1:23.1	Let's just talk about it.
1:24.1	It's about self-control.
1:25.2	It's about self-control. It's about self-control. And I was going to tell you a funny story that there's an article that we're going to reference
1:31.1	today about the marshmallow test, which every psychology student has heard of, right?
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