Hindsight bias and developing theories of mind

Child Development

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1374-1394

  Bernstein, Daniel M ^a,c   Atance, Cristina ^b   Meltzoff, Andrew N ^c   Loftus, Geoffrey R ^c  

^a KWANTLEN POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; CONCEPT FORMATION; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EGO; FEMALE; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PERSONAL CONSTRUCT THEORY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RECEPTIVE FIELD; REINFORCEMENT;

AGE FACTORS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); JUDGMENT; KNOWLEDGE OF RESULTS (PSYCHOLOGY); LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PERSONAL CONSTRUCT THEORY; REALITY TESTING;

EID: 34547229262     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2007.01071.x     Document Type: Article

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