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Enhancing interest in peer interaction: a developmental analysis.

Abstract

Using an intrinsic motivation paradigm, the effects of providing different reasons for interacting with a peer were examined in terms of children's subsequent interest in playing with the other child. Children (5 1/2, 7, and 9 years old) were randomly assigned to 1 of 3 conditions and provided with identical information about a child presented on a television monitor (that he was nice and had a new Lego game). In the experimental conditions, …

Authors

Boggiano AK; Klinger CA; Main DS

Journal

Child Development, Vol. 57, No. 4, pp. 852–861

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Publication Date

August 1986

DOI

10.1111/j.1467-8624.1986.tb00251.x

ISSN

0009-3920