'It's all good': Children's personality attributions after repeated success and failure in peer and computer interactions

British Journal of Developmental Psychology

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 783-797

  Boseovski, Janet J ^a   Shallwani, Sadaf ^b   Lee, Kang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN RELATION; INTERNET; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; PEER GROUP; PERSONALITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNICATION; COMPUTER LITERACY; CULTURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNET; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; JUDGMENT; MALE; PEER GROUP; PERSONALITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 74049139491     PISSN: 0261510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1348/026151008X377839     Document Type: Article

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