Early theory of mind competencies: Do infants understand others' beliefs?

Infancy

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 434-444

  Träuble, Birgit ^a   Marinović, Vesna ^a   Pauen, Sabina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MENTAL CAPACITY;

EID: 77956008933     PISSN: 15250008     EISSN: 15327078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-7078.2009.00025.x     Document Type: Article

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