Success, Failure, and Resistance to Temptation.

Fry, P. S.

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ERIC Number: EJ168324

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Publication Date: 1977

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Success, Failure, and Resistance to Temptation

Fry, P. S.

Developmental Psychology, 13, 5, 519-520, Sep 77

Seventy-eight 8- and 9-year-old subjects were randomly assigned to success, failure, and control conditions involving a test of intellectual ability. Subsequently, they were exposed to a resistance to temptation test involving play with a forbidden toy and measures of latency were taken. (JMB)

Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Failure, Inhibition, Self Control, Success

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