The Desirability of Beliefs: Preschoolers' Appreciation of Fact Beliefs and Subsequent Emotions

Infant and Child Development

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 147-160

  Rieffe, Carolien ^a   Terwogt, Mark Meerum ^a   Koops, Willem ^a   Hagenaar, Janneke ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Desirability; Emotion prediction; Understanding beliefs

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034411370     PISSN: 15227227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1522-7219(200009)9:3<147::AID-ICD226>3.0.CO;2-0     Document Type: Article

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