Development in children's attribution of embarrassment and the relationship with theory of mind and shyness

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 514-521

  Colonnesi, Cristina ^a   Engelhard, Iris M ^b   Bögels, Susan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Embarrassment; False belief; Shyness; Theory of mind; Verbal attributions

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BELIEF; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 77951021113     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699930902847151     Document Type: Article

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