{"id":149194,"date":"2022-10-31T04:22:56","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T09:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/just-like-humans-more-intelligent-jays-have-greater-self-control"},"modified":"2022-10-31T04:22:56","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T09:22:56","slug":"just-like-humans-more-intelligent-jays-have-greater-self-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/just-like-humans-more-intelligent-jays-have-greater-self-control","title":{"rendered":"Just like humans, more intelligent jays have greater self-control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/just-like-humans-more-intelligent-jays-have-greater-self-control.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A study has found that Eurasian jays can pass a version of the \u2018marshmallow test\u2019\u2014and those with the greatest self-control also score the highest on intelligence tests.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first evidence of a link between self-control and intelligence in birds.<\/p>\n<p>Self-control\u2014the ability to resist temptation in favor of a better but delayed reward\u2014is a vital skill that underpins effective decision-making and future planning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study has found that Eurasian jays can pass a version of the \u2018marshmallow test\u2019\u2014and those with the greatest self-control also score the highest on intelligence tests. This is the first evidence of a link between self-control and intelligence in birds. Self-control\u2014the ability to resist temptation in favor of a better but delayed reward\u2014is a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}