Abraham Lincoln and Harry Potter: Children's differentiation between historical and fantasy characters

Cognition

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 213-225

  Corriveau, Kathleen H ^a   Kim, Angie L ^a   Schwalen, Courtney E ^a   Harris, Paul L ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fiction; Heuristic; History; Impossibility; Training

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPREHENSION; DECISION MAKING; FANTASY; HISTORY; HUMAN; NARRATIVE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THINKING;

EID: 70349810680     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2009.08.007     Document Type: Article

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