Problem
Brummelman, E., Thomaes, S., de Castro, B. O., Overbeek, G., & Bushman, B. J. (2014). "That's not just beautiful-that's incredibly beautiful!": The adverse impact of inflated praise on children with low self-esteem. Psychological Science, 25, 728-735.
a) Was the study conducted ethically?
b) Does the study have an underlying theory it is testing?
c) Were the researchers attempting to generalize their results to a specific population, or all humans, or something else?