The ability to control one's impulses and delay immediate pleasures in pursuit of long-term goals is most clearly a characteristic of:

a. emotional intelligence.
b. heritability.
c. mental age.
d. savant syndrome.
e. the g factor.

Ans: a. emotional intelligence.

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