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Topic: Deferred gratification

	Gratification - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gratification is the positive emotional response (happiness) to a fulfilment of desire.
		Maturity is often defined as the ability to delay gratification (patience).
		This focus may be due in part to the influence of Utilitarianism, the consequentialist belief that morality can be measured by the overall yield of happiness (utility) that results from a particular action.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gratification (143 words)

	Deferred gratification - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Deferred gratification, delayed gratification, or emotional intelligence is the ability of a person to wait for things they want.
		Those who lack this trait are said to need instant gratification and suffer from poor impulse control.
		It has also been said that those with poor impulse control suffer from "weak ego boundaries"; which comes from Sigmund Freud's theory of personality where the id is the pleasure principle, the superego is the morality or parent principle, and the ego is the reality principle.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Deferred_gratification (237 words)

	Michael Steinberg, "Against Deferred Gratification"
		We recognize that deferred gratification was what capitalism was all about and that the first industrial workers had to be taught not to quit once they'd earned enough to survive for a while, the way peasants generally do.
		Most hunting people are said to have an inability to defer gratification, which irritates those who devote themselves to improving other people's lives.
		Deferring gratification has opened the door to some of humanity's worst moments.
	mrzine.monthlyreview.org /steinberg240705.html (1037 words)

	sciforums.com - Why do restaurant employees smoke so much?
		Deferred gratification is connected to economic success and education, so does that help to explain the apparent relationship between restaurant employees and smoking?
		I once read of some study, where the researchers studied deferred gratification in children.
		So, if we consider smoking to be an indicator of a personality that prefers immediate gratification, then we can assume that smokers tend to be less successful in the academic/employment realm.
	www.sciforums.com /showthread.php?t=36614 (1065 words)

	delayofg.htm
		Socialization, then, is the delay of gratification that leads to the acceptance of social expectations and sanctions (don't mess other people's clothes).
		In this theoretical framework, the ability to delay gratification appropriately is considered a central sign of maturity.
		The purpose of this research was to extend our knowledge of preference for delayed gratification by relating delayed choices to motives that are logically relevant and whose measurements and empirical correlates appear relatively firm.
	frontpage.uwsuper.edu /psychology/delayofg.htm (1350 words)

	Canadian and French Perspectives on Diversity - Conference Proceedings - October 16, 2003
		The new social values included rejection of authority and lack of deference to authority, while attitudes like deferred gratification were thrown out the window.
		Deferred gratification in the 1950s was of primary importance.
		Deferred gratification, hierarchy and other cherished values of the 1950s were rejected and were replaced by values such as pragmatism, empowerment, egalitarianism and hedonism: not putting the fun off to the future but having fun today and enjoying life today.
	www.pch.gc.ca /pc-ch/pubs/diversity2003/dasko_e.cfm (1811 words)

	Deferred Gratification, Social Class, and the Achievement Syndrome
		The theoretical and research literature on self-imposed postponement of gratifications or satisfactions is reviewed with emphasis on the relation of such a "Deferred Gratification Pattern" (DGP) to social class and social mobility.
		The hypothesis of a deferred gratification pattern received some support from the fact that scales with reproducibilities from.92 to.96 were developed for deferment of five adolescent needs (affiliation, aggression, consumption, economic independence, and sex); and by the intercorrelation of these scales.
		Findings are interpreted as supporting the theory that need deferment is functional for social mobility in American society.
	ecsocman.edu.ru /db/msg/2014 (280 words)

	Deferred Hypertext: The Virtues of Delayed Gratification (Alertbox Sept. 2001)
		With deferred hypertext, users submit simple requests for a single, well-defined unit of information rather than interacting with complicated screens and forms.
		Deferred hypertext is currently very popular among mobile phone users in Europe.
		Even though deferred hypertext is not a live interaction, the length of delay in delivery impacts the service's usefulness.
	www.useit.com /alertbox/20010930.html (995 words)

	Patience Pays Off
		In this age of instant gratification, the answer to this question is becoming difficult.
		The chart illustrates the benefits of deferred gratification over a 20-year period.
		Couple B have all the same things as couple A and have to defer gratification only the first four times, with the duration diminishing each time.
	www.wcg.org /lit/booklets/money/patience.htm (696 words)

	Gratification quotes & quotations
		But when it is merchandised as a commodity for instant gratification, there is nothing deadlier than sex.
		“There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it.
		It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness.
	en.thinkexist.com /quotes/with/keyword/gratification (297 words)

	Stand up if you believe in instant gratification - QA Forums
		Thats why my advocation of deferred checking is as as a guideline not a standard.
		From what I know of immediate checks they too are derived from a dump of GUI attributes so the only difference they can make to the power of a test is by influencing what you decide to test next.
		There is nothing stopping you from putting such decision points in a deferred test only you would call it what it really was rather than an immediate check.
	www.qaforums.com /Forum34/HTML/001245-4.html (1549 words)

	Lanny on Learning Technology: Juxtapositions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Deferred gratification is a big part of this culture.
		Rightly or wrongly, I associate a desire for rote in the schools as an embrace of a deferred gratification culture.
		One might make the simplistic assumption that if a deferred gratification culture cherishes rote as a means for students to learn, then an instantaneous gratification culture believes that discovery approach provides the best path toward creativity and analytic thinking.
	guava.cites.uiuc.edu /l-arvan/blog/2005/09/juxtapositions.html (1406 words)

	[No title]
		It's ironic that personal gratification should be seen as virtue: the code that got us here views it as vice.
		The new code, such as it is, could not in real life bring about the results portrayed in the sit-coms, soap operas, and commercials, but the lessons are so convincing that large numbers of people now subscribe to it.
		Nearly every child and adult in America is assaulted continuously with the lesson that gratification is the central virtue, and that any code holding otherwise is either a joke or a burden.
	www.stepfour.com /eclasm/ethics.htm (1169 words)

	Ankerberg Theological Research Institute - The John Ankerberg Show
		Moses practiced deferred gratification, "He chose to be mistreated along with the people of God rather than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a short time" (Heb.
		Jesus practiced deferred gratification, "for the joy that was set before Him, He endured the cross..." (Heb.
		To delay gratification means to do hard jobs first and easy ones last, to enhance pleasure by dealing with pain immediately and getting it out of the way.
	www.johnankerberg.org /Articles/practical-christianity/PC0704W1.htm (3459 words)

	American Wildlands - On the Wildside (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		I share this experience because it is one of my earliest recollections of deferred gratification as a real, working conservation ethic (i.e., the foregoing of immediate self-gratification as an investment for the long run).
		Quite obviously, therefore, we need the ESA precisely because deferred gratification is a standard not within the grasp of some.
		And he instilled within me the realization that a courtesy toward the wild and, indeed, toward fellow humans, characterized by a willingness to defer self-gratification, is among the wisest of economic and personal visions.
	www.wildlands.org /wildside/spr98/pg3a.html (1108 words)

	Sample Article
		The second is typically middle class — deferred gratification.
		Well of course both points of view are valid, but when they begin to create bias in the ways music is taught then perhaps we have cause for concern.
		The negative point is the same one: an endless loop of joining in activities which ultimately go nowhere and can be sustained only by a constant supply of first time participants.
	www.mca.org.au /mf92peggi.htm (829 words)

	The Trouble With Retirement by Gary North
		Another reason is that the politicians are willing to defer a tax just so long as they will eventually be able to collect it.
		The problem with this theory is that there is so little deferred gratification elsewhere in politics that it is difficult to imagine it here.
		Also, maybe there will be a collapse, and your personal retirement fund somehow survives, and a gold standard is restored, and then deflation hits, and tax rates aren’t raised, and you "cash out" with lots of real wealth, untaxed.
	www.lewrockwell.com /north/north212.html (3204 words)

	Animal or Human Compassion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		What zookeeper or pet owner wants his animal getting up one day saying, "The hell with you and your paternalism; I'm leaving!" With animal compassion, you don't have to worry about teaching the difficult and often heart wrenching lessons of deferred gratification, planning for the future and bearing the burdens of unwise decisions.
		For example, if you were to supply a human with a week's supply of food, and he ate it in a day, letting him do without for the remainder of the week would be a good lesson as well as just desserts for his lack of foresight.
		Expecting an animal to defer gratification, plan for the future, and bear the burden of unwise decisions is cruelty.
	www.gmu.edu /departments/economics/wew/articles/96/animalcompassion.htm (576 words)

	A Meditation on Innovation
		Keynes, never a big fan of the desire to save, saw the process of individual accumulation of capital through deferred gratification as a necessity during a period of rapid economic growth.
		Further evidence of the importance of deferred gratification is the fact that many of the most important institutions that developed in the industrial era were designed to mobilize savings.
		In the story of deferred gratification in the industrial economy, at least you gain in future consumption when you defer consumption in the present.
	arnoldkling.com /~arnoldsk/aimst4/aimst420.html (3780 words)

	PRIMARY CARE MEDICINE, Changing Views (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The front lines for cancer (and heart disease, adolescent health problems, mental health, etc.) are not cures and specialists and research.
		The front lines are primary care people who deal with deferred gratification, care for the elderly, do mental health, etc.
		Things like emotional IQ are more difficult to measure, short of trained interviews and more detailed gathering of info from direct observers of the students qualities.
	www.unmc.edu /Community/ruralmeded/model/medsch/primary_care_medicine.htm (443 words)

	Bozell columns -- 12/29/1998 -- A New Years's Resolution For The Right
		But Medved thinks television’s problem for conservatives goes beyond individual politicians: “One of the fundamental messages of conservatism both for individuals and as a political system, is deferred gratification.
		Television, by its very nature, undermines deferred gratification and emphasizes immediacy.
		The entire medium is slanted to try to persuade people to be impatient, and people need very little persuading generally.” So it’s not just freedom versus statism, or religion versus secularism, but patience versus impatience: “Conservatism as a system depends upon context, knowledge of the past, and some vision of the future.
	secure.mediaresearch.org /columns/news/col19981229.html (755 words)

	HOME GROUP BIBLE STUDY SERIES
		He understands also that God is requiring that his desires be deferred in order to perfect him in patience and obedience.
		Our personal cross may mean deferred gratification or enduring hardness for long periods of time.
		The true disciple carries his or her personal cross faithfully for as long as God requires and does not seek a way of escape.
	www.wor.org /home_groups/lesson1.htm (479 words)

	Lansner on Real Estate blog: Post: Realtor group goes bloggin' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Posted by: kent kwong at April 26, 2006 07:50 PM One of the principles that I regard as a virtue is deferred gratification.
		Deferred gratification was the key distinction between lower class and middle class people.
		Deferred Gratification will have its day in the sun again.
	blogs.ocregister.com /lansner/archives/2006/04/realtor_group_goes_bloggin_1.html (1179 words)

	The White Negro
		In fact, they have tended to overemphasize their conformity to white ideals." 2 They have strongly internalized middle-class values emphasizing self-control, deferred gratification, achievement, extreme cleanliness and rigid moral standards.
		With their strong acceptance of these middle-class values, these Negroes are attempting to separate themselves from the supposed values of the Negro lower class and hipsters, i.e., the stereotyped values with which many whites still would identify them.
		For Negroes who are upwardly mobile deferred gratification is of the utmost importance.
	web.mit.edu /gtmarx/www/whitenegro.html (5480 words)

	Lanny on Learning Technology: More on Deferred Gratification
		And if individual instructors try this on their own while their colleagues continue with business as usual, well, the chance for this to backfire is enormous and it might take quite a while to establish a reputation for the instructional equivalent of tough love, before any of it will work.
		So I believe that if this is to work for individual instructors, they have to defer some gratification themselves in their own teaching and possibly how they are perceived as teachers via the course evaluation questionnaires.
		But there is no doubt that in terms of hours per week exposed to various media that can provide instant gratification, those numbers are higher for my kids than they were for me growing up, and I believe that is typical).
	guava.cites.uiuc.edu /l-arvan/blog/2005/10/more-on-deferred-gratification.html (1172 words)

	Thought for the day: To SP2 or iMac? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Celebrated author, Umberto Ecco, once wrote an essay in which he argued that the IBM PC was a Protestant machine - grey, sensible, unforgiving, popular with accountants and offering only deferred gratification - while the Apple Macintosh was a Catholic device - sensuous, indulgent, offering immediate gratification and forgiveness on demand.
		Living, as we do in a largely Microsoft world, the deferred gratification that Ecco refers to still appears to lie in the far distance, with the promise of Longhorn, the next release of Windows.
		It has been suggested that SP2 is actually an interim release of the product, the engine having been replaced with something a little more reliable and, of course, secure to hold the fort until Microsoft delivers an end to all our problems or we are over-run instead by Linux-toting penguins.
	www.microscope.co.uk /articles/article.asp?liArticleID=133767&liArticleTypeID=13&liCategoryID=1&liChannelID=126&liFlavourID=2&sSearch=&nPage=1 (682 words)

	HawaiiThreads.com - UK Students no longer can get failing grades
		American Mom #1: "She got 3 Bs, 1 C and in one class her success was deferred."
		I hope the new PC trend in England of not issuing "failing" grades so the kids don't get demoralized doesn't wind up here in America.
		Being paid for good grades has worked in this country for a long time and fits in better with the instant gratification mentality most kids have today.
	www.hawaiithreads.com /showthread.php?t=5928 (187 words)

	"We Make Weekends":
		and suggested that deeply rooted cultural principles of deferred gratification were becoming a fetter to continued economic development.
		The ascetic ideology that had granted preeminence to hard work and deferred gratification was being dissolved by the very economic growth it had helped make possible.
		The Protestant Ethic lingered on in distinctions between "true" leisure and wasted time (as opposed to the older notion of leisure as idleness) but an evolving hedonistic conception of pleasure guided by an ideology of consumerism now occupyed a central place in people's lives.
	www.lclark.edu /~goldman/wmw2web.html (6763 words)

	Delayed Gratification and Incorporeal Transformations? The Timelessness of Haecceity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		This passage by Holland provides a starting place to talk about how incorporeal language and the system of delayed gratification create an image for both those who are in the system/state apparatus and for the system itself.
		Delayed gratification sets up thought and knowledge also as something “out there” in principle: created with abstract words such as “excellence” that cannot be materially attained.
		D and G say that the image is “the necessary condition for the constitution of thought as principle, or as a form of interiority, as a stratum” (ATP 375).
	www.uta.edu /HyperNews/thread.pl/delgua/78/2.html?dir=nextThread (1440 words)

	Syracuse Festival of Races (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Citizens Bank Run To Your Dreams Program brings accomplished distance runners into area schools to convey to students a range of positive messages regarding education, health, hard work, discipline, goal setting, deferred gratification, and lifetime fitness.
		Students have the opportunity to ask the athletes about their particular roads to success, and they get to hear about the variety of obstacles that many of the athletes have had to overcome on their way to success.
		Due to the level of demand for speakers schools responding after September 1 cannot be guaranteed an athlete speaker.
	www.festivalofraces.com /rtyd.html (190 words)

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