Regina Conti
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Associate Professor, Psychology, Colgate University. Her contribution to SAGE Publications’s Encyclopedia of Social Psychology (2007) formed the basis of her contributions to Britannica.
Primary Contributions (1)
Delay of gratification, the act of resisting an impulse to take an immediately available reward in the hope of obtaining a more-valued reward in the future. The ability to delay gratification is essential to self-regulation, or self-control. To study the conditions that promote delay of…
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