Teaching three year-olds to pass false belief tests: A conversational approach

Social Development

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 275-291

  Appleton, Michele ^a   Reddy, Vasudevi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conversation; False belief; Theory of mind; Training

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030442374     PISSN: 0961205X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9507.1996.tb00086.x     Document Type: Article

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