Journal article
Rituals improve children's ability to delay gratification
- Abstract:
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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 children's executive functioning, in turn improving their ability to delay gratification. A 3-month ci...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Wiley Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Child Development Journal website
- Volume:
- 89
- Issue:
- 2
- Pages:
- 349-359
- Publication date:
- 2017-02-18
- Acceptance date:
- 2016-09-07
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1467-8624
- ISSN:
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0009-3920
- Source identifiers:
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643795
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:643795
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uuid:0280e9ec-7c56-40a6-a546-31eebaac2f29
- Local pid:
- pubs:643795
- Deposit date:
- 2016-09-15
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- © 2017 The Authors
- Copyright date:
- 2017
- Notes:
- This is the author accepted manuscript following peer review version of the article. The final version is available online from Wiley at: 10.1111/cdev.12762
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