1 Running head: Cultural Habits and Delaying Gratification Cultures Crossing: The Power of Habit in Delaying Gratification Kaichi Yanaoka 1,6 , Laura E. Michaelson 2 , Ryan Mori Guild 3 , Grace Dostart 3 , Jade Yonehiro 4 , Satoru Saito 5 , Yuko Munakata 4 1 Graduate School of Education, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, JP 2 American Institutes for Research, Washington, DC, US 3 Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, US 4 Department of Psychology and Center for Mind and Brain, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, US 5 Graduate School of Education, Kyoto University, Kyoto, JP 6 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Tokyo, JP Kaichi Yanaoka (Corresponding author) Graduate School of Education, The University of Tokyo (Hongo 7-3-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan) E-mail. makifactor@gmail.com Tel. and Fax: +81-3-2812-2111 This paper is not the copy of record and may not exactly replicate the final, authoritative version of the article. The final article is available via its DOI shown below. Yanaoka, K., Michaelson, L. E., Guild, R. M., Dostart, G., Yonehiro, J., Saito, S., & Munakata, Y. (2022). Cultures crossing: The power of habit in delaying gratification. Psychological Science, 33(7), 1172–1181. https://doi.org/10.1177/09567976221074650