Robots and rodents: Children's inferences about living and nonliving kinds

Child Development

Volumn 78, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1675-1688

  Jipson, Jennifer L ^a,c   Gelman, Susan A ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONCEPT FORMATION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EGO; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFE; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; ROBOTICS; RODENT; THINKING;

ANIMALS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONCEPT FORMATION; CULTURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE; MALE; REALITY TESTING; ROBOTICS; RODENTIA; THINKING;

EID: 35748972045     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2007.01095.x     Document Type: Article

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