Do children start out thinking they don't know their own minds?

Mind and Language

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 328-346

  Mitchell, Peter ^a   Teucher, Ulrich ^b   Bennett, Mark ^c   Ziegler, Fenja ^a   Wyton, Rebecca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 67049097256     PISSN: 02681064     EISSN: 14680017     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0017.2009.01365.x     Document Type: Article

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