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impulse control

Psychology The degree to which a person can control the desire for immediate gratification or other; IC may be the single most important indicator of a person's future adaptation in terms of number of friends, school performance and future employment. See BarOn test, Emotional intelligence, Marshmallow test.

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In an exercise in deferred gratification, you enter through a solid timber door set in a blade of masonry some 7.

Living on the edge; Walters & Cohen's house: a threshold between ... by Bevan, Robert / The Architectural Review

Perhaps the time has come, he concludes, to inter Hall's notion of adolescence as a separate stage of life defined by sexual maturation and deferred gratification.

Teaching Sex: The Shaping of Adolescence in the 20th Century. ... by Kett, Joseph F. / Journal of Social History

Secondly, Edwards seems to be unmindful of the argument--well publicized by Habermas, for example--that the inner logic of capitalism itself destroys the moral foundations on which capitalism depends, such as deferred gratification, the nuclear family, the willingness to labour at the same whatever the season or time of day, and so on.

An incoherent international order? (The Chronicle Library Shelf) by Sivaramakrishnan, Arvind / UN Chronicle

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impulse control (redirected from Deferred gratification)

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