Children's understanding of human and super-natural mind

Cognitive Development

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 365-375

  Makris, Nikos ^a   Pnevmatikos, Dimitris ^b  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN MACEDONIA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Anthropomorphism; Representational properties; Super natural entities; Theory of mind

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249280246     PISSN: 08852014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2006.12.003     Document Type: Article

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