Children's use of the temporal dimension of gaze for inferring preference

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 142-152

  Einav, Shiri ^a   Hood, Bruce M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; Gaze perception; Mental state attribution; Nonverbal cues; Social cognition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PERCEPTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REACTION TIME; TIME; VISION;

ATTENTION; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CUES; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; REACTION TIME; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 31644444963     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0012-1649.42.1.142     Document Type: Article

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