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Emotional regulation predicts cognitive performance

These data flatly state that emotional regulation—reining in impulses—predicts better cognitive performance. That’s a bombshell of an idea. It directly ties intellectual horsepower to emotional processing. I am not dismissing rote drills, as a memorized database is an extremely important part of human learning. But it is clear: Vygotsky was on to something.

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