Integration Theory Applied to Judgments of Personal Happiness by Children
- 1 June 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in The Journal of Social Psychology
- Vol. 105 (1) , 27-31
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00224545.1978.9924086
Abstract
Information integration theory was applied to study how children integrate verbal and concrete reinforcements. Five-year-old Indian boys (N = 64) received either praise or blame, and either one or five balloons for their performance on a simple motor task. They made self-judgments of happiness. The data obeyed the theoretical parallelism prediction, indicating that personal happiness follows a simple adding-type integration rule.Keywords
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