Belief-desire reasoning in the explanation of behavior: Do actions speak louder than words?

Cognition

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 184-194

  Wertz, Annie E ^a   German, Timsin C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Attribution; Belief desire reasoning; Explanation; Theory of mind

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DISTRACTIBILITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL CAPACITY; MENTAL CONCENTRATION; PERCEPTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; CONCEPT FORMATION; CULTURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 34547687763     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2006.08.002     Document Type: Article

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