The marshmallow study

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We had some friends over Saturday night—ordered pizza, drank some wine (the grownups), toasted marshmallows (the kids).

This led, as it often does, to someone making a joke about the marshmallow experiment.

You know this one, I’m sure. It came out of Stanford University in the early 1960s. Researchers sat kids down and offered them a sweet treat, but th…