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SUBMITTER: Gunderson EA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3655123 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Sep-Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gunderson Elizabeth A EA Gripshover Sarah J SJ Romero Carissa C Dweck Carol S CS Goldin-Meadow Susan S Levine Susan C SC
Child development 20130211 5
In laboratory studies, praising children's effort encourages them to adopt incremental motivational frameworks--they believe ability is malleable, attribute success to hard work, enjoy challenges, and generate strategies for improvement. In contrast, praising children's inherent abilities encourages them to adopt fixed-ability frameworks. Does the praise parents spontaneously give children at home show the same effects? Although parents' early praise of inherent characteristics was not associate ...[more]