Determining who owns what: Do children infer ownership from first possession?

Cognition

Volumn 107, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 829-849

  Friedman, Ori ^a   Neary, Karen R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Abstract reasoning; Cognitive development; Heuristics; Ownership; Possession; Property; Proprietary behavior; Social cognition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHARACTER; CHILD BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; CONFLICT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; MENTAL TASK; OBJECT RELATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; SCREENING; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL EVOLUTION; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

AWARENESS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OWNERSHIP; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 42249106032     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2007.12.002     Document Type: Article

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