Mental contrasting facilitates academic performance in school children
Abstract
Two brief intervention studies tested whether teaching students to mentally contrast a desired future with its present reality resulted in better academic performance than teaching students to only think about the desired future. German elementary school children (N = 49; Study 1) and US middle school children (N = 63; Study 2) from low-income neighborhoods who were taught mental contrasting achieved comparatively higher scores in learning...
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Title
Mental contrasting facilitates academic performance in school children
Published Date
Apr 23, 2011
Journal
Volume
35
Issue
4
Pages
403 - 412
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