Elaborating on elaborations: Role of maternal reminiscing style in cognitive and socioemotional development

Child Development

Volumn 77, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1568-1588

  Fivush, Robyn ^a   Haden, Catherine A ^b   Reese, Elaine ^c  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; ARTICLE; CHILD; COGNITION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LITERATURE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOTHER; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGY; RECALL; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

AFFECT; AUTOBIOGRAPHY; CHILD; COGNITION; CULTURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MENTAL RECALL; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; MOTHERS; NARRATION; PSYCHOLOGY; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 33750899498     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2006.00960.x     Document Type: Article

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