Source: Corvus Moneduloides, via Flickr. Distributed under a CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 license. With Thanksgiving and the holiday season upon us, it’s the perfect time to talk about self-control. One measure of ...

Teach kids to think before they act by using these techniques and activities to build impulse control in children.

A team of psychologists at the University of Manchester, in the U.K., working with a colleague from Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, in Morocco, has found that children tend to behave differently ...

Kids and sweets make for a thoroughly compatible combination. Children yearn for the sticky syrup of melted ice cream dribbling down the sides of waffle cones, or the gummy candy that stubbornly ...

A person’s ability to delay gratification—forgoing a smaller reward now for a larger reward in the future—may depend on how trustworthy the person perceives the reward-giver to be, according to a new ...