MattG comments on How to illustrate that society is mostly irrational, and how rationality would be beneficial - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 17 February 2014 08:01:56AM 0 points [-]

I could swear there was research on delaying gratification that matched this criteria. It's not clear in the Wikipedia article whether the hot-cold strategy was prescriptive or descriptive, but I thought I remembered there being a prescriptive study that correlated with positive outcomes later in life