Can infants attribute to an agent a disposition to perform a particular action?

Cognition

Volumn 98, Issue 2, 2005, Pages

  Song, Hyun Joo ^a   Baillargeon, Renée ^a   Fisher, Cynthia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HAND GRIP; HUMAN; INFANT; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); OBJECT RELATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; FEMALE; GOALS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 27944450325     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2005.04.004     Document Type: Article

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