24 institutionalized aggressive, impulsive males aged 10 to 16 participated in 14 sessions of training in the use of “rules” for the solution of cognitive tasks. When compared to 21 controls who completed the same tasks but were not exposed to the “rules,” the experimental group shifted toward less impulsive responding on the Porteus Maze Q score on posttest.
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