Children's evaluation of other people's self-descriptions

Social Development

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 800-818

  Gee, Caroline L ^a   Heyman, Gail D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Gender stereotypes; Motives; Self presentation; Source evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 35448978362     PISSN: 0961205X     EISSN: 14679507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9507.2007.00408.x     Document Type: Article

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