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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Dev Psychol. 2011 Jul;47(4):1078–1089. doi: 10.1037/a0023813

Table 2.

Means and Standard Deviations for Number of Epochs (Latency) to First Occurrence and Average Number of Epochs (Duration) of Children’s Focus on Gift, Bids about Wait, and Distractions at Each Age Point

Age in Months
18 24 36 48
Focus on Gift
Latency M 9.89 6.10 9.51 14.73
SD 11.73 8.94 10.70 11.54
Duration M 1.12 1.34 1.34 1.06
SD .81 .76 1.11 .86

Bids about Wait
Latency M 8.36 8.85 3.22 1.57
SD 9.13 9.27 6.11 3.88
Duration M 2.14 1.46 1.62 2.03
SD 2.52 .93 .77 .94

Distraction
Latency M 10.42 10.34 7.25 3.23
SD 10.23 9.83 8.32 4.82
Duration M 1.90 1.95 2.44 3.26
SD 1.43 1.40 1.92 3.24