The role of language, appearance, and culture in children's social category-based induction

Child Development

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 539-553

  Diesendruck, Gil ^a   HaLevi, Heidi ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARAB; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CULTURAL FACTOR; DECISION MAKING; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; ISRAEL; JEW; LANGUAGE; MALE; PERSONAL CONSTRUCT THEORY; PERSONALITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RELIGION; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIALIZATION; VISION;

ADULT; ARABS; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; ISRAEL; JEWS; JUDGMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; PERSONAL CONSTRUCT THEORY; PERSONALITY; RELIGION; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIALIZATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33646696897     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2006.00889.x     Document Type: Article

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