Visible markers of brain injury influence attributions for adolescents' behaviour

Brain Injury

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1029-1035

  McClure, John ^a   Devlin, Miranda E ^a   McDowall, John ^a   Wade, Kim ^b  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attribution; Injury markers; Misunderstanding; Visibility

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; ANGER; ARTICLE; BANDAGE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BRAIN INJURY; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MARKER; HEALTH BELIEF; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOTIVATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSONALITY; SLEEP;

EID: 33750151320     PISSN: 02699052     EISSN: 1362301X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699050600909870     Document Type: Article

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