Counterfactual reasoning: Developing a sense of "nearest possible world"

Child Development

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 376-389

  Rafetseder, Eva ^a   Cristi Vargas, Renate ^a   Perner, Josef ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

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ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOGIC; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY;

CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LOGIC; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY;

EID: 76749089251     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2009.01401.x     Document Type: Article

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