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2 Hidden Cameras - HVX 200 and Sony Z1U
A bunch of Kids
1 Marshmallow each

Not an original idea, but very fun to make.

worshiphousemedia.com/mini-movies/14675/The-Marshmallow-Test

Used in a series on temptation: watermarkradio.com/index.php?id=153&channel=237&series=150&message=2

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  • Dan Stevers 4 months ago
    That was hilarious. Great job!
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  • Rachel Schmidt 3 months ago
    That is sooo funny! Some of the facial expressions are hillarious, great music choice too :o) Love it!
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  • Delilah Luz 2 months ago
    Loved it! :P
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  • Ali Birns 2 months ago
    I <3 the kid who kissed his marshmallow!
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  • Bruno Scopel 2 months ago
    Awesome! :D
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  • JNGS 2 months ago
    perfect music! great job!
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  • nagash 2 months ago
    poor kids!
    amazing video
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  • Sandra Landeiro 2 months ago
    So cute!
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  • Blake Whitman staff 2 months ago
    doesn't this predict the type of person you will be when you're older? I think I heard a piece on this on This American Life or Radio Lab or something...
  • Daniel Dawley 2 months ago
    Yes it was a test done in the 1960s that followed the kids from adolescence into adulthood. The study showed that kids that couldn't wait would develop a higher body-mass index and struggle with drugs.

    The key is that it shows which kids are able to think about something other than the marshmallow, which in turn shows which kids will give into things such as peer pressure.

    Pretty interesting :)
  • Janek Nahm 2 months ago
    I thought it was about success?!

    In this short talk from TED U, Joachim de Posada shares a landmark experiment on delayed gratification -- and how it can predict future success. With priceless video of kids trying their hardest not to eat the marshmallow.

    ted.com/talks/lang/eng/joachim_de_posada_says_don_t_eat_the_marshmallow_yet.html
  • Janis von Seggern 1 month ago
    I can confirm that. I never could wait and now I'm fat :D
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  • ailatanotos plus 2 months ago
    Jajaja!! So good video!!
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  • Brandon Ray plus 2 months ago
    I'm glad you ended it with the blonde boy finally getting to eat his reward- he looked like he was trying so hard and in so much pain!
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  • belindacarmenlovelee 2 months ago
    too too cute :)
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  • thecrazyjogger 2 months ago
    Realy nice vdo!
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  • Joseph Griffin plus 2 months ago
    Does a marshmallow have a smell? LOL! Sounds like I have a test of my own to enact...
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  • George Kraft 2 months ago
    Outstanding! Well done from start to finish! The camera locations, cuts, pace, lighting, music - it all worked. Great job and an inspiration!
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  • TJC Martin 2 months ago
    Absolutely Fascinating Stuff. A perfect little short through and through. I adore it. Hilarious...
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  • Steve V 2 months ago
    Thank you guys so much! It was hilarious to make because we got to watch it all happen in the next room with a monitor.
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  • Sunny Thaper plus 2 months ago
    LOVE the facial expressions. Such a great video.
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  • Yojan Shrestha 2 months ago
    oh my god!! this video is sooo funny..ohh kids ..we love their innocence..
    Great Video!! Great Concept..Two thumbs up!!
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  • pamela shepard 2 months ago
    this is adorable!
    the girls are a bit more inclined to just go for it...
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  • Silent Lucidity 2 months ago
    this was so cute. the boys were fighting the urge to gobble the sweets haha too cute :D
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  • muench 2 months ago
    i was suffering with them and laughing at the same time,
    very good
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  • Puhuuu Papp 2 months ago
    so, how many marshmallows you guys devoured behind the one-way mirror?! Very illuminating work!
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  • Anton Woldhek 2 months ago
    Great vid, i only wish there was more of the kids getting a 2nd (or not) marshmellow. Though the lil redhead who goes straight for it has my vote.
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  • Tijmen Kuipers 2 months ago
    nice experiment :)
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  • nomand 2 months ago
    brilliant! do you have the title or author of the original experiment or publication? I'd like to do some research on this.
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  • Elliot Jay Stocks 2 months ago
    This is great. Some really fantastic expressions in there. Nice one!
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  • Levi Figueira 2 months ago
    I think I'll watch this video every morning... What a great way to start the day! :D


    ... still smiling! ;)
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  • Gilly 2 months ago
    Nice Job! Makes me feel good :)
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  • BumKi Cho plus 2 months ago
    My instant favorite!!
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  • marc 2 months ago
    The original experiment was conducted by Walter Mischel in the 60s.

    He then followed the children's progress through adolescence - finding that who were able to wait without eating the marshmallow were better adjusted and 'more dependable', scored higher on SATs too.
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  • Pepe García 2 months ago
    great !!! hahaha great !!!!
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  • PLEBIAN DESIGN plus 2 months ago
    awesome vid.
    for those wondering some about the tests, here is a new yorker article that talks some about them.
    newyorker.com/reporting/2009/05/18/090518fa_fact_lehrer
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  • Jason Chen 2 months ago
    Fun to watch, cruel thing to do.
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  • Rebecca "Rebechan" 2 months ago
    Eheh that was funny to watch... The boy with the grey tshirt is definitely the BEST one! :D

    By the way, how long did you let them wait before (finally ;D) giving them the 2nd marshmallow?
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  • Sebastián Sánchez 2 months ago
    Que preciosas criaturas, felicidades por el proyecto.
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  • Henrique Szklo 2 months ago
    This also shows the childrens greed!
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  • Nathalie Van Turnhout 2 months ago
    Simple idea, amazing vid! Enjoyed every minute of it.
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  • Seren Wade 2 months ago
    That was absolutely wonderful! Some of the children were struggling soooooo much with the temptation I adored it! Thank you! :)
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  • Trevor Leyenhorst 2 months ago
    Wow. Despite all the interesting conclusions from the experiment as far as psychology goes, this was a pure delight to watch with their expressions and mannerisms! Thanks for posting.
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  • zazuk plus 2 months ago
    Some people are sooooo mean!
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  • Simon Ekholm Sastre 2 months ago
    gr8 i love it!
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  • BasieP 2 months ago
    Very great to watch :D
    nice idea
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  • jjajajaja nice!
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  • MJ Klein 2 months ago
    very enjoyable program. i liked it very much. well produced too.
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  • Gail Gorton 2 months ago
    you can already see their little personalities...very cute!
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  • Mooce 2 months ago
    well done, Steve! I needed that today. also, turns out we know some of the same people from Watermark.
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  • Tom G 2 months ago
    Funny !! :)
    2:44 was just hilarious :D

    The music is awesome, too.
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  • Jennifer Morris 2 months ago
    So cute! And at first I thought the first kid was wearing a vimeo tee :D
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  • kilinkis 2 months ago
    i love it!
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  • Parapente SAMOENS 2 months ago
    It's cruel ! but so cute.
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  • Hector Rodriguez 2 months ago
    just fantastic!
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  • Forrest Wyce 2 months ago
    Ah! I love this so much. I'd love to know what the name of that music is.
  • Steve V 2 months ago
    The music was purchased off of stockmusicsite.com
  • Forrest Wyce 2 months ago
    Ah, that's interesting to know - I might utilize this for my independent film making class, thanks!
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  • fernando bueno 2 months ago
    Too cute! Building a character.
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  • Justin G 2 months ago
    Definitely a fun video to watch! Awesome job!!
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  • Bill Parker plus 2 months ago
    Genius!
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  • jsb001 2 months ago
    awesome!!!
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  • Guilherme Ferreirinha 2 months ago
    very fun
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  • Bruno Fujii 2 months ago
    Nice!
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  • Ron Galen 2 months ago
    Yeah, but the Storm tastes so good NOW!
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  • Stefan Rechsteiner 2 months ago
    hilarious!
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  • Migi 2 months ago
    great idea, children could be so funny ilove it
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  • Doda Ferrari 2 months ago
    Omg........ xD
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  • I loved this idea since I saw it on radiolab. But you could put a little more information on the video (halve of what you put in the comments) and it would be not only entertaining but also educative..
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  • Erik Sundius 2 months ago
    Why do kids always have so difficult with this kind of stuff (waiting, temptation, etc.)? I know I was probably the same at that age, but still... I just read in a newspaper something about kids who have a "candy day", and when they are at a party and are offered sweets, they dart to the bowl and start suffing their mouths, not stopping until the bowl is empty.. (my interpretation was that if they alway have to wait on one day in the week when they get something good, and now when they get an "extra day", they make the most of it...) hmm.. I don't actually know what I wanted to say anymore. Became too philosophical/psycological for me... ;)
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  • Erik Sundius 2 months ago
    But ok, yes, a fun video :)
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  • Makit0 2 months ago
    No creo que sea un experimento curel, ellos solo estan pelando por un premio, pueden lograrlo o no.

    Lo cruel sería no darles el premio por el cual lucharon (con esas graciosas caras).

    Nice Video ;)!
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  • Nikolai Schulz 2 months ago
    Great! I am filming the "opposite" at memoro.org/de..

    Herrlich, die Mimik und Gestik plus die passende Musik!
  • Steve V 2 months ago
    I'm curious, could you explain this? Are you going to post this soon?
  • Nikolai Schulz 2 months ago
    memoro.org/de embedded in memoro.org is a non-profit-project to collect the personal memories and past traditions of people over 65 years. We are trying to build a kind of generation bridge, hoping that young people will film their grandparents, short clips of 5 minutes, and upload this!
    Greetings from Germany,
    Munich,
    Niko
  • Steve V 1 month ago
    Are the grandparents eating marshmallows? ;)
  • Nikolai Schulz 1 month ago
    No, the grandparents are dreaming of past times. Sometimes, they are really happy, that the past times are "past"...Sometimes, old people develop back in some parts to little children. See my head, no more hairs...teeth began to move...Circle of live.
    3 weeks ago, I had been in New York City for a week, really a great place! Little bit loud, but nice and friendly people from a lot of differents nations, but some of them are not really slim.
    You don't see this kind and number of overweight people in Europe. I am practicing for exemple Yoga every day, stopped smoking and drinking alcohol and I am feeling great since some years. Move you body, walk, no drive in or drive through.
    Even the muffins are doublesize there :-), and the grey squirrels in the Riverside Park too. Here the squirrels are brown or dark orange, and shy and small ..ok, I am waiting for your next great clip, Steve.
    And...we need PR for memoro.org/de and I am trying to learn some fundraising for our non-profit-organisation :-), hard work in Europe, because the people are used that the social state is responsible for everything.
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  • Ross Hayden 2 months ago
    nice reflexes at 2:37. he could grow up to be a great football player. american or european.
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  • Ricardo Tomasi 2 months ago
    OMG!! That was cruel! And you left children *alone* in the room with a marshmallow! That's child abuse!!!1

    Just kidding :)
    Great video!
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  • The power of the marshmallow!
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  • Annie plus 2 months ago
    Very Cute! :)))
    I remember something about that study they did back in the 60's. very interesting stuff.
    Great vid mate, Love it :))))))))))))
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  • Jemast 2 months ago
    Simple idea but such a great effect!
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  • Johnny Wicken 2 months ago
    So Steve V, you get to torture little kids for a living? You are living many parent's secret dream. I was waiting for one kid to immediately eat the marshmallow, knock on the door, and scream, "I'm too big to fail! I need a bailout marshmallow!"
  • Levi Figueira 2 months ago
    haha :D
  • Steve V 2 months ago
    Haha. The little girl who ate it, finished and immediately went for the door to find her parents.
  • David Voges 1 month ago
    yeah what great methaphor this would be!
    and how true short term greed and then running to your parents to get what you could have gotten if you had a long run strategy.
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  • TELEVISIONANDO 2 months ago
    G r e a t !
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  • Philip Campbell 2 months ago
    fantastic.
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  • Jim Walker 2 months ago
    Haha :P That was awesome. Very cute :)
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  • Victor Aguiar 2 months ago
    This is the best video i ever seen.
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  • Christian Pier 2 months ago
    cute!
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  • Kliment Kalchev 2 months ago
    ;d
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  • Glemos 2 months ago
    Too simple task for us, adults, to wait for another marshmallow....
    But try to figure out this marshmallow being a car or a house and if you wait a couple of years more you could get (buy) another one for free? Not so simple anymore, unh?
    Any similarity with our "interest rates", "credit cards" and "financial markets" reality ??? Great Work!!!
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  • Peter Jennings 2 months ago
    Awesome!
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  • Eduardo Coelho plus 2 months ago
    Coooool!
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  • nada saad 2 months ago
    Great Video. Really enjoyed it but left me wondering about the other kids? How many could wait?
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  • Terri MacMillan 2 months ago
    adorable kids. great video!
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  • Lovisa Högberg 2 months ago
    Haha, as an economist you just have to love this pedagogic illustration of "interest"! I might even use this in my classes =)
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  • LG EC 2 months ago
    Awesome example of a basic "delay of gratification methods" (at least that is what developmental psychologists would likely call this). Kids who wait -- later in life do great!
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  • Jennifer Coleman 2 months ago
    I loved seeing how each child handled the situation differently. But I have to say the reactionary facial expressions of the first little boy were the best!
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