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The popular image of children is that they have short attention spans and want everything right now. But a new analysis of 50 years of data from the Marshmallow Test - a classic test of self control suggests that children are getting better at delaying gratification. John Protzko of University of California Santa Barbara explains to Claudia Hammond why it's happening. First broadcast on All in the Mind, 15 November 2017.
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