Young children's persuasion in everyday conversation: Tactics and attunement to others' mental states

Social Development

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 394-416

  Bartsch, Karen ^a   Wright, Jennifer Cole ^b   Estes, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b Department of Teacher Education and Department of Sociology and Anthropology   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication; Social cognition; Social skills; Theory of mind

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952074052     PISSN: 0961205X     EISSN: 14679507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9507.2009.00537.x     Document Type: Article

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