Guise and Guile: Children's Understanding of Narratives in Which the Purpose of Pretense Is Deception

Child Development

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1735-1751

  Peskin, Joan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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EID: 0030511689     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.1996.tb01824.x     Document Type: Article

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