Eva Pomerantz and Lili Qin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (IMAGE)
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University of Illinois psychology professor Eva Pomerantz (left), student Lili Qin and their colleagues found that American children's sense of obligation to their parents and desire to please them by doing well in school declined in the seventh and eighth grades, while Chinese students generally maintained their feelings of obligation and increased their motivation to please their parents with their academic achievements. Qin holds a Chinese greeting card offering the recipient good luck with academics in the new year.
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