Mothers' and fathers' use of internal state talk with their young children

Social Development

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 757-775

  LaBounty, Jennifer ^a   Wellman, Henry M ^a   Olson, Sheryl ^a   Lagattuta, Kristin ^b   Liu, David ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotion understanding; Internal state language; Parental socialization; Theory of mind

Indexed keywords

EID: 54049117228     PISSN: 0961205X     EISSN: 14679507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9507.2007.00450.x     Document Type: Article

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