Preschoolers' Understanding of the Link between Thinking and Feeling: Cognitive Cuing and Emotional Change

Child Development

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1081-1104

  Lagattuta, Kristin Hansen ^a   Wellman, Henry M ^b   Flavell, John H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AWARENESS; CHILD; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; EGO DEVELOPMENT; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RECALL; SEMANTICS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; THINKING;

AROUSAL; AWARENESS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CUES; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT; SEMANTICS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; THINKING;

EID: 0031309532     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.1997.tb01986.x     Document Type: Article

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