CU Psychology and Neuroscience graduate student聽Laura Michaelson (Cognitive, mentored by Yuko Munakata) was in the news,聽with an article about her research appearing in a CU press release. The research, published in the journal聽Developmental Science聽(and co-authored with Munakata), demonstrated that children between the ages of 3 and 6 were nearly three times as likley to give up on waiting for a reward if they observed an adult acting in an untrustworthy manner compared to those who observed an adult behaving in a trustworthy manner. This research emphasizes the importance of social trust on a child's ability to delay gratification or not. The ability to delay gratification has been shown to correlate with several indicators of better life outcome. Read the , or read the original .