The marshmallow effect

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Susan Jones looks at how irrationality in decision making can be harnessed to improve retirement saving in defined contribution pension schemes

In the 1960s Professor Walter Mischel conducted an experiment. He assembled a group of pre-school children and in front of each of them he placed one marshmallow. The children were then told they c...

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