Rituals Improve Children's Ability to Delay Gratification
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Rituals Improve Children's Ability to Delay Gratification.
To be accepted into social groups, individuals must internalize and reproduce appropriate group conventions, such as rituals. The copying of such rigid and socially stipulated behavioral sequences places heavy demands on executive function. Given previous research showing that challenging executive functioning improves it, it was hypothesized that engagement in ritualistic behaviors improves ch...
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عنوان ژورنال: Child Development
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0009-3920
DOI: 10.1111/cdev.12762