Attributing false beliefs about non-obvious properties at 18 months

Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 366-395

  Scott, Rose M ^a   Baillargeon, Renée ^a   Song, Hyun joo ^b   Leslie, Alan M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

False belief; Infant cognition; Psychological reasoning; Violation of expectation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE;

EID: 78149467110     PISSN: 00100285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2010.09.001     Document Type: Article

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