Practice what you preach: How adults’ actions, outcomes, and testimony affect preschoolers’ persistence

Across four experiments, we looked at how 4‐ and 5‐year‐olds' (n = 520) task persistence was affected by observations of adult actions (high or low effort), outcomes (success or failure), and testimony (setting expectations—“This will be hard,” pep talks—“You can do this,” value statements—“Try...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Leonard, Julia Anne, Garcia, Andrea, Schulz, Laura E
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Format: Article
Published: Wiley 2019
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/123110