Children's thinking about counterfactuals and future hypotheticals as possibilities

Child Development

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 413-426

  Beck, Sarah R ^a   Robinson, Elizabeth J ^b   Carroll, Daniel J ^a   Apperly, Ian A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; THINKING;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; THINKING;

EID: 33645090415     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2006.00879.x     Document Type: Article

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