It Takes Two: Process Praise Linking Trying and Success Is Associated With Greater Infant Persistence.
Process praise (i.e., praise for effort) facilitates childhood persistence. However, less is known about the mechanism by which process praise influences persistence in infancy. Here, we propose that well-timed process praise reinforces the link between effort and success, thus promoting persistence...
| Published in: | Developmental Psychology Vol. 59; no. 9; pp. 1668 - 1676 |
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American Psychological Association
Sep2023
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