Introduction: Academic Delay of Gratification Culturally Self‐Regulated Pedagogy

The concept of academic delay of gratification is critical in fostering long‐term academic success for students. This volume explores the importance of resisting immediate rewards in favor of more valuable but temporally distant academic goals. The ability to delay gratification is linked to students’ self‐regulated learning, self‐efficacy beliefs, discipline, perseverance, and academic excellence. After discussing Mischel's classic marshmallow test, this chapter examines the relevance of delay of gratification within the academic sphere. The chapter introduces the volume′s focus on academic delay of gratification in which the contributors’ theoretical, empirical, and culturally self‐regulated pedagogy and applications hold great promise for students and educators in postsecondary learning environments.