Yuichi Shoda
Yuichi Shoda is a psychologist and first author of the 1990 Developmental Psychology paper that followed preschool waiting into adolescence.
Who they are
The work of Yuichi Shoda reaches this site through the paper listed below. On this site the name is tied to Marshmallow Test.
Key papers
Shoda, Y., Mischel, W., & Peake, P. K. (1990). Predicting adolescent cognitive and self-regulatory competencies from preschool delay of gratification: Identifying diagnostic conditions. Developmental Psychology, 26(6), 978-986. What it reports: Preschool children from a university community took part in waiting experiments. In the conditions identified as most informative, seconds of delay correlated with cognitive and academic competence and with coping with frustration and stress in adolescence.
Key ideas
Marshmallow Test: A waiting task in which a child is offered one treat now or a larger one after a wait, used to study how children manage delay.
Sources
- Shoda, Y., Mischel, W., & Peake, P. K. (1990). Predicting adolescent cognitive and self-regulatory competencies from preschool delay of gratification: Identifying diagnostic conditions. Developmental Psychology, 26(6), 978-986.