Sentence examples for inflated praise from inspiring English sources

It's not just inflated praise that can backfire; so can praise that links a child's success to some personal trait: "Wow, you're great," for instance, instead of, "Wow, you did a great job".

The problem isn't praise, but inflated praise, words like "perfect" or "incredibly good", as opposed to a simple "good".

The kids who started off confident got more confident in the wake of inflated praise.

For example, "you're good at this" was simple praise, while "you're incredibly good at this" was considered inflated praise.

But their research found that, while inflated praise may help those children who already have high self esteem, it exacerbates the problem for those who lack such confidence.

The low-self-esteem kids who had received inflated praise chose to stick to the easier tasks — and thus lowered their over-all rates of learning and acquiring new drawing skills.

In research to be published soon in the journal Psychological Science, Eddie Brummelman, a doctoral student in psychology at Utrecht University, in the Netherlands, and his colleagues investigated how children's achievement is affected by inflated praise ("Incredibly beautiful!" in lieu of "Beautiful!" or "Excellent!" instead of "Good!").

So it appears that when kids have a poor sense of their worth, this perception causes adults to inflate their praise -- at least in the laboratory.