What Motivates Preschoolers to Prepare for the Future

Adults spend an average of 59 times a day thinking about the future. This helps them to cope with upcoming challenges. But what do children do’

Adults find it particularly easy to prepare for the future when they imagine how they will feel. Researchers at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, have investigated whether this is also the case with preschoolers. In a study with 90 children aged five, they showed that this cohort only prepares for a game when they imagine how bad it will feel when. ...