Children's Thinking about Traits: Implications for Judgments of the Self and Others

Child Development

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 391-403

  Heyman, Gail D ^a   Dweck, Carol S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTROL; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNED HELPLESSNESS; MALE; PERCEPTION; PERSONALITY; SELF CONCEPT; THINKING;

ACHIEVEMENT; CHILD; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HELPLESSNESS, LEARNED; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; JUDGMENT; MALE; PERSONALITY; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; THINKING;

EID: 0032043065     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.1998.tb06197.x     Document Type: Article

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