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The Marshmallow Test was a celebrated experiment in the history of psychology designed to measure children’s ability to delay gratification, and track the consequences of being able to think long-term. Some three-year-old children were offered a marshmallow, but told they would get two if they held off from eating the first one for five minutes. It
... See moreAlain De Botton • The School of Life: An Emotional Education
Back in the 1980s, the Oxford psychologists Michael Argyle and Monika Henderson wrote a seminal paper titled “The Rules of Friendship.” Its six takeaways are obvious, but what the hell, they’re worth restating: In the most stable friendships, people tend to stand up for each other in each other’s absence; trust and confide in each other; support ea... See more
Jennifer Senior • It’s Your Friends Who Break Your Heart
Early-initiated childhood reading for pleasure: associations with better cognitive performance, mental well-being and brain structure in young adolescence | Psychological Medicine | Cambridge Core
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In her new book, Fully Alive: Tending to the Soul in Turbulent Times , Oldfield talks about long having had “a hunch” that the notion of the nuclear family is “a weird building material for a society”. She doesn’t think it’s “sufficiently load-bearing for the weight placed on it, leaving lots of other options lying around, unloved”. And, she writes... See more
Lucy Denyer • Our middle-class commune (joint bank accounts, noisy sex and all)
