Don't believe everything you hear: Preschoolers' sensitivity to speaker intent in category induction

Child Development

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1871-1885

  Jaswal, Vikram K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTITUDE; BEHAVIOR; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; VIDEORECORDING;

ATTITUDE; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CUES; CULTURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENTION; MALE; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 10844263383     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2004.00822.x     Document Type: Article

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