Two facets of patience in young children: Waiting with and without an explicit reward.
Patience, or the ability to tolerate delay, is typically studied using delay of gratification (DoG) tasks. However, among other factors (e.g., type of reward), the use of a reward to test patience is affected by an individual’s motivation to obtain the reward (e.g., degree of preference for the smal...
| Published in: | Journal of Experimental Child Psychology Vol. 171; pp. 14 - 31 |
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