Processing demands in belief-desire reasoning: Inhibition or general difficulty?

Developmental Science

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 218-225

  Friedman, Ori ^a,c   Leslie, Alan M ^a,b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCEPT FORMATION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; EGO; FEMALE; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL;

CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONCEPT FORMATION; CULTURE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REALITY TESTING;

EID: 17544366173     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2005.00410.x     Document Type: Article

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