Rationales in children's causal learning from others' actions

Cognitive Development

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 70-79

  Sobel, David M ^a   Sommerville, Jessica A ^b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Causal learning; Explanations; Rationales

Indexed keywords

EID: 60049099899     PISSN: 08852014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2008.08.003     Document Type: Article

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