 Thus, the long-term negative consequences of person-oriented praise are still unclear.Person and process (or performance) praise may also foster different attributional styles  such that person-oriented praise may lead one to attribute success and failure to stable ability, which in turn may foster helplessness reactions in the face of setbacks.Contrastingly, process praise may foster attributions regarding effort or strategy, such that children attribute their success (or failure) to these variables, rather than their stable trait or ability.