Ignorance or false negatives: Do children of 4 to 5 years simulate belief with "not knowing = Getting it wrong?"

Journal of Cognition and Development

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 263-273

  Perner, Josef ^a   Horn, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ERROR; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; KNOWLEDGE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STORYTELLING; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 33645751519     PISSN: 15248372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/S15327647JCD0403_02     Document Type: Article

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