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A study at this site<\/a> suggests that for younger people reinforcement is more helpful to learning when their behavior leads to a personal benefit, but that in older people reinforcement has greater effects when their behavior helps someone else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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