Preschool Children's Understanding of Self-Mind and Other-Mind Using “Theory of Mind” Tasks

Japanese Journal of Educational Psychology

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 354-363

  Goushiki, Toru ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

mental representations; preschool children; theory of mind; understanding of other mind; understanding of self mind

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347081483     PISSN: 00215015     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5926/jjep1953.47.3_354     Document Type: Article

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