Individual differences in children's emotion understanding: Effects of age and language

Scandinavian Journal of Psychology

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 347-353

  Pons, Francisco ^a,b   Lawson, Joanne ^a   Harris, Paul L ^a   De Rosnay, Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Development; Emotion understanding; Individual differences; Language

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; PERCEPTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

AFFECT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0141541838     PISSN: 00365564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9450.00354     Document Type: Article

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