Eighteen-month-old infants show false belief understanding in an active helping paradigm

Cognition

Volumn 112, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 337-342

  Buttelmann, David ^a   Carpenter, Malinda ^a   Tomasello, Michael ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

False belief; Helping; Infancy; Theory of mind

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; FALSE MEMORY; HUMAN; INFANCY; INFANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AGING; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; PERCEPTION;

EID: 67649220627     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2009.05.006     Document Type: Article

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