If at First Adults Don't Succeed, Babies Are More Likely to Try, Try Again (IMAGE)

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If at First Adults Don't Succeed, Babies Are More Likely to Try, Try Again

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A handoff: Either the infant hands the toy to the parent or throws the toy to the ground. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Sept. 22, 2017, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by J.A. Leonard at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA, and colleagues was titled, "Infants make more attempts to achieve a goal when they see adults persist."

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Julia Anne Leonard

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