How children narrate happy and sad events: Does affective state count?

Applied Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1173-1190

  Gobbo, Camilla ^a   Raccanello, Daniela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; ARTICLE; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LONELINESS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF REPORT; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 38149099834     PISSN: 08884080     EISSN: 10990720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acp.1324     Document Type: Article

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