When children practice a new skill and fail, it is critical for them to explore new strategies to
succeed. How can parents encourage children's exploration? Bridging insights from …

Persistence is crucial for overcoming academic and interpersonal challenges. However,
there has been little progress in developing effective interventions to improve persistence in …

Parental behavior in interactions with children has been related to child language
development. Our study contributes to the literature about relations between the …

The ability to decide whether, when and how to try is central to human learning. We
investigated whether infants can make rational inferences about when and how to try on a …

Children need to learn to persist through challenges, yet adults sometimes step in to solve
problems for them. Here, we looked at how adult taking over related to children's …

Children's behavior changes from day to day, but the factors that contribute to its variability
are understudied. We developed a novel repeated measures paradigm to study children's …

Rural adolescents are at higher risk of reduced academic persistence due to socioeconomic
barriers. Educational expectations are theoretically viewed as important for adolescents' …

High achievers vary in terms of the constraints and difficulties they encounter on the road to
success. The present study investigates whether and how children consider the constraints …

Children's persistence can predict later academic achievement. However, few studies have
examined the factors related to individual differences in persistence. In this study, we …

The goal of this study was to investigate the development of young children's goal-directed
behaviors in challenging settings––an important behavioral component of mastery …