Temporal information and children's and adults' causal inferences

Thinking and Reasoning

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 167-196

  Burns, Patrick ^a   McCormack, Teresa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Causal reasoning; Interventions; Time

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449644706     PISSN: 13546783     EISSN: 14640708     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13546780902743609     Document Type: Article

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