Continuities in Emotion Understanding from Three to Six Years

Child Development

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 789-802

  Brown, Jane R ^a   Dunn, Judy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; EMOTION; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SIBLING RELATION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIALIZATION;

CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITIVE DISSONANCE; CONCEPT FORMATION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; SIBLING RELATIONS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIALIZATION;

EID: 0030167299     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.1996.tb01764.x     Document Type: Article

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