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The Marshmallow Test: Mastering Self-Control by Walter Mischel

The Marshmallow Test: Mastering Self-Control: Audiobook

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Marshmallow Test: Mastering Self-Control runs 7.9 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Alan Alda (about 5.3 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

7.9listening hrs
Mental Health & Psychologystore shelf
2014released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 7.9 hours of listening.

Days to finish The Marshmallow Test: Mastering Self-Control at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day16 days
1 hour / day8 days
2 hours / day4 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×6 days

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What our data says

  • At 7.9 hours, it runs longer than 66% of the 8,456 Mental Health & Psychology audiobooks in our catalog.

Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.

About this listen

The Marshmallow Test: Mastering Self-Control is an audiobook by Walter Mischel: a 7.9-hour unabridged recording, read by Alan Alda, released September 23, 2014, on the Mental Health & Psychology and Biology & Chemistry shelves.

The listen at a glance

Length
7.9 hrs
Narrated by
Alan Alda
Released
September 23, 2014
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Mental Health & Psychology, Biology & Chemistry
ISBN
9781469249070

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Questions listeners ask

How long is The Marshmallow Test: Mastering Self-Control as an audiobook?

The Marshmallow Test: Mastering Self-Control runs 7.9 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 5.3 hours.

Is The Marshmallow Test: Mastering Self-Control free as an audiobook?

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Who narrates The Marshmallow Test: Mastering Self-Control?

The Marshmallow Test: Mastering Self-Control is narrated by Alan Alda.