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However, no study has empirically investigated the effect of robot-administered praise in children younger than 4 years old.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Method<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>This study focuses on the social robot CommU, a simple, approximately 30 cm tall, child-shaped robot that exerts less social pressure and helps children attend to social cues more easily. We examined whether praise from CommU is associated with task persistence in children aged 18\u201324 months, in comparison with human praise.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Result<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Children showed greater task persistence in the Praise condition than in the No Praise condition, regardless of agent type (CommU vs. Human). 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