Preschoolers' ability to make dispositional predictions within and across domains

Social Development

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 53-75

  Cain, Kathleen M ^b   Heyman, Gail D ^a   Walker, Michael E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b GETTYSBURG COLLEGE   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Preschoolers; Social cognition; Trait conceptions

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031469562     PISSN: 0961205X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9507.1997.tb00094.x     Document Type: Article

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