Children's evaluative categories and inductive inferences within the domain of food

Infant and Child Development

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 285-299

  Nguyen, Simone P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Categorization; Evaluative categories; Food; Inductive inferences

Indexed keywords

EID: 51449098188     PISSN: 15227227     EISSN: 15227219     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/icd.553     Document Type: Article

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