The Infant as Onlooker: Learning from Emotional Reactions Observed in a Television Scenario

Child Development

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 221-237

  Mumme, Donna L ^a,c   Fernald, Anne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LEARNING; MALE; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; TELEVISION; VISION;

AFFECT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; MALE; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; TELEVISION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0037673072     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8624.00532     Document Type: Article

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