The Marshmallow Experiment

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The Marshmallow Experiment

Postby BetaGen » Mon Feb 27, 2012 12:04 pm

One of my hobbies is replicating random psychological experiments (people are quite interesting to study). One of them was the marshmallow test. Simple yet, ingenious!
Here is the video I've got the idea from:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EjJsPylEOY

Any thoughts what I could do next?

For instance, one of the long term experiments I've tried was to encourage the teacher subconsciously to stay in a specific zone during a lecture in a 20±5 audience. The idea was to show him more attention (discuss, ask questions, energetic listening faces) when he was in specific places.

To begin with, people got more enthusiastic when he stood up from his chair. In just a few seminars he stopped sitting down during the lecture. Afterwards, me and the other students agreed upon the specific places where we would give him more attention (by the chalkboard and so on). The end result as of today 8A.M. was that he stood the whole lecture by the sink without even realizing it. Experiment success, but took 1 year to complete.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mR3jnW2kcUs
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Re: The Marshmallow Experiment

Postby Lopdo » Mon Feb 27, 2012 12:35 pm

maybe he was doing experiment called "what should I do to maximize their attention" :)

anyway, awesome :)
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Re: The Marshmallow Experiment

Postby Ratburntro44 » Mon Feb 27, 2012 1:27 pm

If I were a test subject in the marshmallow experiment, I would probably tear it into tiny pieces then throw them at the person when they came back.
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