A critical eye: Praise directed toward traits increases children's eye fixations on errors and decreases motivation

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1073-1077

  Zentall, Shannon R ^a   Morris, Bradley J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AKRON   (United States)

^b KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Eyetracking; Gaze; Motivation; Persistence; Praise; Self evaluation; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870173526     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13423-012-0294-y     Document Type: Article

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