Research participants who were directed to write short essays about why they had succeeded in a first task were 2.31 times more likely than others to persist in the face of failure in a second task, say Peter V. Zunick and two colleagues from The Ohio State University. These and other findings demonstrate that certain people—those with negative self-views—often fail to draw general conclusions about their abilities after past successes, but that the experience of generalizing about past triumphs in the form of a short essay helps them overcome this tendency and translate success into more-positive judgments about themselves.
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