Children's interpretive understanding, moral judgments, and emotion attributions: Relations to social behaviour

British Journal of Developmental Psychology

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 275-292

  Malti, Tina ^a,b   Gasser, Luciano ^a   Gutzwiller Helfenfinger, Eveline ^a  

^a University of Teacher Education of Central Switzerland   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGGRESSION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; COMPREHENSION; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MORALITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SWITZERLAND; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AGE FACTORS; AGGRESSION; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPREHENSION; EMOTIONS; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MORALS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SWITZERLAND; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 77953424481     PISSN: 0261510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1348/026151009X403838     Document Type: Article

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