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Kuczynski, Leon – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1982
Investigates the effects of varying the motivational context of verbal rationales on children's compliance with prohibition. Results indicate that children who received other-oriented rationales performed a greater amount of work and were less likely to show decrements in working over time than did subjects who received self-oriented rationales.…
Descriptors: Children, Discipline, Motivation, Responses
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Dubanoski, Richard A.; Tokioka, Abe B. – Social Behavior and Personality, 1981
Presented children (N=96) aged 8-11 with verbal pain or nonpain stimuli contingent or noncontingent on a target response. Delivered stimuli within an aggressive or nonaggressive setting and with or without affect. Type of setting did not influence the behavior, but stimuli delivered in an affective manner did facilitate responding. (Author/RC)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Aggression, Behavior Patterns, Children
Farber, Ellen A.; Moely, Barbara E. – 1980
Results of two studies investigating children's abilities to use different kinds of cues to infer another's affective state are reported in this paper. In the first study, 48 children (3, 4, and 6 to 7 years of age) were given three different kinds of tasks (interpersonal task, facial recognition task, and vocal recognition task). A cross-age…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Affective Behavior, Age Differences, Children