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. 2014 Jun;18(6):276-8.
doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2014.02.012. Epub 2014 Mar 27.

Mise en place: setting the stage for thought and action

Deena Skolnick Weisberg  1 , Kathy Hirsh-Pasek  2 , Roberta Michnick Golinkoff  3 , Bruce D McCandliss  4
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Mise en place: setting the stage for thought and action

Deena Skolnick Weisberg et al. Trends Cogn Sci. 2014 Jun.

Abstract

A school became safer after security measures were removed. Children can learn better in playful, rather than didactic, settings. At-risk students earned higher grades after writing about a personal value. A novel construct - mise en place--explains how small changes in context, such as these, can lead to large changes in behaviors by highlighting how the psychology of preparing to act within an environment shapes and is shaped by that environment.

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