Children's sensitivity to their own relative ignorance: Handling of possibilities under epistemic and physical uncertainty

Child Development

Volumn 77, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1642-1655

  Robinson, Elizabeth J ^a   Rowley, Martin G ^b   Beck, Sarah R ^c   Carroll, Dan J ^c   Apperly, Ian A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CHILD; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY;

ATTITUDE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY;

EID: 33750908268     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2006.00964.x     Document Type: Article

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