Over praising affects the pre-fontal cortex : the reward center of the brain. “The brain center says: ‘Don’t give up. Don’t stop trying,’ says Dr. Robert Cloninger at Washington University in St. Louis. “But a person who grows up getting too frequent rewards will not have persistence because they’ll quit when the reward disappears. The end result is that kids learn to cheat, exaggerate and lie in order to avoid difficult real life situations.”
Posted on: Mon, 05 Aug 2013 23:50:31 +0000
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