Talking About Others Facilitates Theory of Mind in Chinese Preschoolers

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1726-1736

  Lu, Huijing ^a   Su, Yanjie ^a   Wang, Qi ^b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology

Author keywords

autobiographical memory; Chinese children; mental state talk; other references; theory of mind

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASIAN; AWARENESS; CHINA; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; MALE; PERCEPTION; PERSONAL CONSTRUCT THEORY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECALL; SEMANTICS; SOCIALIZATION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AWARENESS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHINA; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURE; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; PERSONAL CONSTRUCT THEORY; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; SOCIALIZATION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 56349094237     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0013074     Document Type: Article

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