When people have an audience watching them, it can change their performance for better or worse. Now, researchers have found that chimpanzees' performance on computer tasks is influenced by the number ...

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When people have an audience watching them, it can change their performance for better or worse. Now, researchers reporting in iScience on November 8 have found that chimpanzees' performance on ...

Does your child “give up” on a challenging task too easily? How do we raise our children to be persistent and persevere through difficult tasks in order to succeed? A January 2021 article published in ...