Children's ascriptions of property rights with changes of ownership

Cognitive Development

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 322-336

  Kim, Sunae ^a   Kalish, Charles W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive development; Ownership; Social norms

Indexed keywords

EID: 68049105395     PISSN: 08852014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2009.03.004     Document Type: Article

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