"This way!", "No! That way!"-3-year olds know that two people can have mutually incompatible desires

Cognitive Development

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 47-68

  Rakoczy, Hannes ^a   Warneken, Felix ^a   Tomasello, Michael ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Desire; False belief; Social cognitive development; Theory of Mind

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846353208     PISSN: 08852014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2006.08.002     Document Type: Article

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