能够通过棉花糖实验的孩子,成年后可能获得更大的成功。20世纪60年代末的一天,留着褐色长发的四岁女孩卡罗琳·薇姿,被请到了斯坦福大学比恩幼儿园的一间游戏室中。房间不大,里面摆着一套桌椅。卡罗琳坐在桌子前,实验人员让她从几盘子的棉花糖、糖果和各种饼干中选一样自己最喜欢的。卡罗琳选择了棉花糖。尽管已经44岁,但她对这些玉米糖浆和胶质做成的蓬松球还是情有独钟。“我知道我不该这样,”她说,“但是棉花糖实在太好吃了!”接着,一位研究人 Kids who can experiment with marshmallows may achieve greater success later in life. Caroline Vichy, a four-year-old girl with brown hair in the late 1960s, was taken to a playroom at Biennum School at Stanford University. Room is not large, there is a set of tables and chairs. Caroline sat at the table and the experimenter asked her to pick her favorite from a few plates of marshmallows, candies and cookies. Caroline chose cotton candy. Despite her 44-year-old, she enjoyed a soft spot with these fluffy balls of corn syrup and gum. “I know I should not be like this, ” she said, “But the marshmallows are so delicious! ” Then a researcher