What we thought we knew and how we came to know it: Four decades of cross-cultural research from a piagetian point of view

Human Development

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 56-65

  Maynard, Ashley E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross cultural research; Culture; Methodology; Piaget

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; CROSS CULTURE RESEARCH; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNOGRAPHY; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MENTAL FUNCTION; METHODOLOGY; NEUROSCIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGY; RESEARCH; REVIEW; THEORY; VISION;

EID: 40049091281     PISSN: 0018716X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000113156     Document Type: Review

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