The purpose of this experiment was to examine the relationship between inconsistent verbal instructions and children’s resistance-to-temptation behavior. 　　Sixty-four• subjects were ranao□□. drawn from the second grade of one primary school. All were divided into interpersonal-and intra personal- instruction groups, according to treatment conditions, each group was further divided into four subgroups: consistent prohibitive, inconsistent (permissive first), inconsistent (prohibitive first) and consistent permissive group. The subject’s toy touching responses were analyzed by latency, frequency, duration score and average duration score. 　　The results of the study indicated that: (1) there were no significant group differences in manipulative responses between the interpersonal-and the intrapersonal verbal-instruction groups. (2) two groups’ c□□□dren who had received inconsistent instructions had more toy-touching responses and shorter latency than the consistently prohibitive group but less toy-touching responses and longer latency than the consistently permissive group. All above-mentioned differences were statistically significant. (3) with regard t9 the means of latency, frequency, duration score and average duration score, there were no significant differences between the two inconsistent group.