Re:Raising a moral child
by gohrt on Tuesday April 15, 2014 @02:31PM
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The famous "marshmallow experiment" is great evidence for this. When the original experiment was re-analyzed, researchers found that children from stable, consistent environments, with reliable trustworthy adults, were better able to withold temptation and show patience to win a "2 marshmallow" delayed reward in exchange for a sacrifice of "1 marshmallow" now.
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Re:Raising a moral child
by not-gro-tsen on Tuesday April 15, 2014 @02:45PM
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As soon as he was old enough to understand, I showed my kid the marshmallow experiment and taught him a few ways to mess with the experimenter, if someone were to try this on him. Bwahaha.