Persistence in and timely disengagement from personal goals are core components of
successful self-regulation and therefore relevant to well-being and performance. In the …

Young children are often dependent on learning from others and to this effect develop
heuristics to help distinguish reliable sources from unreliable sources. Where younger …

Infants' persistence in the face of challenges predicts their learning across domains. In older
children, linguistic input is an important predictor of persistence: when children are praised …

Purpose Although the alignment between mission statement and leadership practices leads
to higher employee performance, it is unclear how the alignment is linked with employee …

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 …

The present study sought to determine the relative contributions of two aspects of school
adjustment to children's academic progress. We asked if social integration and persistence …

Despite the importance of persistence in early learning, we know little about how children
reason about outcomes that result from their efforts. Here we examined the role of effort type …

Research indicates a higher prevalence of attention deficits in children exposed to HG in
utero compared to controls with some claiming that the deficit is due to prenatal effects of …

Grit is known to be effective for long-term academic and social success. However, few
studies have focused on the role of grit in parenting and its effect on the development of grit …