Should our children be rewarded for their good deeds? German psychologists Felix Warneken and Michael Tomasello completed a series of interesting experiments. In front of a child a little over one and a half years old, an adult participant in the study dropped and could not get some object.
Should our children be rewarded for their good deeds? German psychologists Felix Warneken and Michael Tomasello completed a series of interesting experiments. In front of a child a little over one and a half years old, an adult participant in the study dropped and could not get some object. All the children willingly came to the rescue and held out dropped things. After that, some babies were given an attractive cube as a gift, others were simply praised, and the actions of others were not paid attention to. When the experiment was repeated, it turned out that this time there were fewer people who wanted to help… exactly those who had previously received the cube as a reward. Yes, you can — and you should! – to tell and show our children how much we are happy and appreciate what they do … but not to translate their actions into the language of valuable rewards.