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Whether obese, overweight or lean, women who thought about future scenarios were able to postpone gratification, study shows

September 4, 2013 by

Dieters call it willpower; social scientists call it delayed gratification. It's the ability to delay an immediate reward in favor of a bigger future reward, for example, having a slimmer body in a few months versus the hot fudge sundae now...

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