Первая работа на эту тему: Walter Mischel, Ebbe B. Ebbesen, and Antonette Raskoff Zeiss, «Cognitive and Attentional Mechanisms in Delay of Gratification», Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 21 (1972): 204–218. Последующие работы: Harriet Nerlove Mischel and Walter Mischel, «The Development of Children’s Knowledge of Self-Control Strategies», Child Development 54 (1983): 603–619; Walter Mischel, Yuichi Shoda, and Philip K. Peake, «The Nature of Adolescent Competencies Predicted by Preschool Delay of Gratification», Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 54 (1988): 687–699; Walter Mischel, Yuichi Shoda, and Monica L. Rodriguez, «Delay of Gratification in Children», Science 244 (1989): 933–938; and Walter Mischel and Ozlem Ayduk, «Willpower in a Cognitive-Affective Processing System: The Dynamics of Delay of Gratification» in Roy F. Baumeister and Kathleen D. Vohs, eds., Handbook of Self-Regulation: Research, Theory, and Applications, 99-129 (Guilford, 2004). – Прим. авт.