Children's Differentiation Between Beliefs About Matters of Fact and Matters of Opinion

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1084-1096

  Banerjee, Robin ^a   Yuill, Nicola ^a   Larson, Christina ^b   Easton, Kate ^a   Robinson, Elizabeth ^c   Rowley, Martin ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^d KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

epistemology; explicit; fact versus opinion; implicit; subjectivity

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CHILD; CONCEPT FORMATION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EGO; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PEER GROUP; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

AGE FACTORS; ATTITUDE; CHILD; CONCEPT FORMATION; CULTURE; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PEER GROUP; REALITY TESTING; SOCIAL CONFORMITY;

EID: 34548827590     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0012-1649.43.5.1084     Document Type: Article

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