Emotion understanding in English- and Spanish-speaking preschoolers enrolled in head start

Social Development

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 410-439

  Downs, Andrew ^a   Strand, Paul ^b   Cerna, Sandra ^c  

^a CENTRAL WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Benton Franklin County Head Start ^*

Author keywords

Emotion understanding; Reliability; Theory of mind; Validity

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548105679     PISSN: 0961205X     EISSN: 14679507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9507.2007.00391.x     Document Type: Article

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