Toddlers' reactions to the distress of familiar peers: The importance of context

Infancy

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 299-318

  Demetriou, Helen ^a   Hay, Dale F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONAL STRESS; GENDER; HOME; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PLAY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RECORDING; RESPONSIBILITY; SIBLING; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

EID: 10644254496     PISSN: 15250008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15327078in0602_9     Document Type: Article

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