Delayed gratification — the ability to sacrifice an immediate reward for a more valuable one in the future — can tell us a lot about intelligence. While once believed to be a uniquely human trait, ...

A team of psychologists at the University of Manchester, in the U.K., working with a colleague from Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, in Morocco, has found that children tend to behave differently ...

An eye-opening experiment on cephalopods reinforces why it is so important for us to not underestimate animal intelligence. A study published in 2021 presented cuttlefish with a new version of the ...

Cuttlefish — and cephalopods in general — are known to be the most intelligent of the invertebrates. They’ve got big old brains and their senses are pretty extraordinary. We know they’re smart, but a ...

Storing cars is not fun. You must take a car, something designed to move, and make sure that sitting still for months on end doesn’t adversely affect it. The preparation process is tricky, too. When ...

I know a big part of your teaching centers around the importance of learning to delay gratification. You seem to believe reaching a level of maturity where you can do this is essential to attain the ...