Self-Experience as a Mechanism for Learning About Others: A Training Study in Social Cognition

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1257-1265

  Meltzoff, Andrew N ^a   Brooks, Rechele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

gaze following; intention; social cognition; theory of mind; training experience

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INFANT; MALE; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTION; PERSONAL CONSTRUCT THEORY; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; VISION;

AWARENESS; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; INFANT; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PERSONAL CONSTRUCT THEORY; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 54849410618     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0012888     Document Type: Article

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