Mischel (1974) and his co-investigators showed that any of several simple cognitive strategies that allowed children to divert their attention from the prospect of immediate reward could substantially enhance the capacity of virtually all children to delay gratification. In other words, such manipulations of context (and perhaps also of the meaning of that context to the children) could swamp the influence of any broad enduring differences in impulsivity, or patience, or any of the other individual differences among children that parents and professionals alike have in mind when they try to
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It concerns understanding the situation nd less so about the trait
