Children are Cursed: An Asymmetric Bias in Mental-State Attribution

Psychological Science

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 283-286

  Birch, Susan A J ^a   Bloom, Paul ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; PERCEPTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROBLEM SOLVING; REINFORCEMENT;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; KNOWLEDGE OF RESULTS (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; PROBABILITY LEARNING; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0041777694     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9280.03436     Document Type: Article

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