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Peer reviewedPerry, Louise C.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1985
Confirmed the hypothesis that happiness leads to self-indulgence when children have no reason to believe that excessive self-gratification is morally wrong but that happiness promotes self-denial when children fear that excessive self-gratification violates a moral rule. Results with 112 White, middle-class, Australian children ages four to five…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Age Differences, Childhood Attitudes, Children
