Abstract The ability to delay gratification is related success in school and other aspects of life. Genetic as well environmental factors such parenting style partly explain the development (DoG). However, it unclear whether parental personality impacts children’s DoG, how maternal paternal personalities contribute this relationship. present study investigates relationship between 45-month-old ...

It would be unfair to myself, not to say how happy I am on this evening and very proud as well. But such a feeling is linked to several other reasons. The first is personal of course, enjoying the award, the prize, which has just been given to me. But my enjoyment is also related to the gratification of knowing that friendship has proven faithful and efficient. Therefore I would like to thank v...

The capacity to inhibit and withhold actions is a key feature of human cognition. Withholding action forms the basis of self-control, delayed gratification, social contracts, and trust in others. Most experimental studies of this function come from studying the processing of external stop signals. However, another important aspect of inhibition is 'will-power', i.e., intentional inhibitory cont...

Deficits in impulse control are discussed as key mechanisms for major worldwide health problems such as drug addiction and obesity. For example, obese subjects have difficulty controlling their impulses to overeat when faced with food items. Here, we investigated the role of neural impulse control mechanisms for dietary success in middle-aged obese subjects. Specifically, we used a food-specifi...

views on infant sexuality encompassed " pleasurable activities far removed from any concerns with reproduction, " 13 activities such as sucking, cuddling, hugging etc. Martinson suggested that infantile sexuality be viewed under a " general conceptual rubric, such as the pleasure-pain principle. " 12 Although penile erections and vaginal secretions in response to stimulation have been interpret...

This paper presents a semantic wiki prototype application named SHAWN that allows structuring concepts within a wiki environment. To entice the use of Semantic Web technologies applications need to offer both high usability and instant gratification. Concept creation is exceptionally easy in SHAWN since metadata as well as plain text is entered within a single edit box on each wiki page in a se...

This investigation deals with the influence of situational variables and individual differences (internal versus external locus of control and achievement motivation) on self-imposed gratification delay. The sample consisted of 243 male and female high school students. Subjects who only had to wait for the delayed reward (Group 1) chose the delayed reward significantly more frequently than subj...

Due to the phenomenal growth of e-commerce, online shopping has recently become a worldwide trend. This fosters many platforms enter into Asian emerging markets, which evolves need understand decision-making processes in this particular context. Addressing gap, our study initialized an integrated framework based on Uses and Gratification theory Cognitive–Affect–Behavior paradigm examine impact ...

Today’s adolescents grow up with digital technologies and the Internet from birth. In order to learn about experience of these adolescents, in accordance social constructivist perspective, qualitative methodology was used this paper. The Uses Gratification Theory guided formulation questions a semi-structured interview. To explore youth’s perception internet, ten girls nine boys were interviewe...

Fun is often seen a necessary gratification for recreational games. This paper studies two freeform role-playing games aiming to create extremely intense experiences of tragedy, horror, disgust, powerlessness and self-loathing, in order to gratify the self-selected group of experienced role-players. Almost all of the 15 interviewed players appreciated their experiences, despite crying, experien...