Children prefer certain individuals over perfect duplicates

Cognition

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 455-462

  Hood, Bruce M ^a   Bloom, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Authenticity; Cognitive development; Object representation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; ILLUSION; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; OBJECT RELATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; OPTICAL ILLUSIONS;

EID: 36849063735     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2007.01.012     Document Type: Article

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