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High fives motivate: the effects of gestural and ambiguous verbal praise on motivation

The type of praise children receive influences whether children choose to persist after failure. One mechanism through which praise affects motivation is through the causal attributions inferred from language. For example, telling a child “You got an A on the test because you’re smart,” provides an...

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Autores principales: Morris, Bradley J., Zentall, Shannon R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4145712/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25221532
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00928