Children's understanding of ordinary and extraordinary minds

Child Development

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1475-1489

  Lane, Jonathan D ^a   Wellman, Henry M ^a   Evans, E Margaret ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; PERCEPTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RELIGION;

CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; PERCEPTION; RELIGION;

EID: 77956586314     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2010.01486.x     Document Type: Article

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