Japanese and American Children's Reasoning about Accepting Credit for Prosocial Behavior

Social Development

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 171-184

  Heyman, Gail D ^a   Itakura, Shoji ^b   Lee, Kang ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Childhood development; Cross cultural differences; Reasoning; Social values

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650336251     PISSN: 0961205X     EISSN: 14679507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9507.2010.00578.x     Document Type: Article

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