The Relation Between Desire and False Belief in Children's Theory of Mind: No Satisfaction?

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 859-876

  Ziv, Margalit ^a   Frye, Douglas ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CONCEPT FORMATION; FANTASY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; MALE; MOTIVATION; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION DISORDER; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

AWARENESS; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONCEPT FORMATION; FANTASY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; MOTIVATION; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL DISTORTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0142166198     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0012-1649.39.5.859     Document Type: Article

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