Three- and four-year-old children's ability to use desire- and belief- based reasoning

Cognition

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 1998, Pages B1-

  Cassidy, Kimberly Wright ^a  

^a BRYN MAWR COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Belief; Desire; False belief

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; HUMAN; LOGIC; MOTIVATION; PERCEPTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROBLEM SOLVING; RECUMBENCY;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CULTURE; DECEPTION; HUMANS; LOGIC; MOTIVATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0032036917     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0010-0277(98)00008-0     Document Type: Article

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