Specific socio-ecological factors might also influence self-control abilities across taxa. Increased delayed gratification abilities have been attributed to a variety of factors including life-history characteristics, whereby larger species with lower metabolisms and longer life expectancies can potentially tolerate longer delays.

By contrast, other taxa such as some monkey species, rodents, chickens and pigeons find it difficult to inhibit the consumption of a desirable food item for a delayed gain and thus exhibit relatively lower degrees of self-control. For example, relative degrees of self-control are typically higher in non-human great apes (henceforth apes), corvids and parrots. The ability to delay gratification not only varies within but also across taxa. Yet, whether self-control is linked to cognitive performance in non-primate taxa remains to be tested. A recent study on chimpanzees has also demonstrated a link between self-control and cognitive performance, showing that their ability to delay gratification was correlated positively with performance across 13 cognitive tasks. In humans, self-control has been linked to cognitive performance, whereby individuals who delay gratification for longer achieve higher scores in a range of academic tasks. Self-control, the ability to overcome immediate gratification in favour of a better but delayed reward, is a vital cognitive skill that underpins effective decision-making, goal-directed behaviours and future planning. Our results demonstrate that cuttlefish can tolerate delays to obtain food of higher quality comparable to that of some large-brained vertebrates.

Cuttlefish that delayed gratification for longer had better learning performance. To test learning performance, we used a reversal-learning task, whereby cuttlefish were required to learn to associate the reward with one of two stimuli and then subsequently learn to associate the reward with the alternative stimulus. Cuttlefish maintained delay durations for up to 50–130 s. To test self-control, cuttlefish were presented with a delay maintenance task, which measures an individual's ability to forgo immediate gratification and sustain a delay for a better but delayed reward. Here, we investigate self-control and learning performance in cuttlefish, an invertebrate that is thought to have evolved under partially different pressures to previously studied vertebrates. These pressures are difficult to uncouple because previously studied species face similar socio-ecological challenges. Advanced self-control has been linked to better performance in cognitive tasks and has been hypothesized to evolve in response to specific socio-ecological pressures. Some species can exert self-control for several seconds whereas others, such as large-brained vertebrates, can tolerate delays of up to several minutes. To change the timings in SelfControl, use (sorry, it is a very very old note in Evernote so I don't have the original source anymore):ĭefaults write MaxBlockLength -int ĭefaults write ability to exert self-control varies within and across taxa. I never really took the time to see how it's done of FF, though. That last one is not very good for everything, so it would be better to just delete those automatic sites from the suggestion list. Some things that helped a lot with this, together with SelfControl, is to change all new tabs to a blank page and disable autocomplete in the Firefox navbar. I'm just bored or frustrated and, almost unconsciously, I hit the shortcuts for Browser > New Tab > Focus Address Bar > Start typing n, r or m (for ). A lot of times I don't even want or think of going to HN, Reddit, Twitter.

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