Intuitive expectations and the detection of mental disorder: A cognitive background to folk-psychiatries

Philosophical Psychology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 95-118

  Boyer, Pascal ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cultural transmission; Ethno psychiatry; Intuitive expectations; Mental dysfunction; Theory of mind

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951574050     PISSN: 09515089     EISSN: 1465394X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09515089.2010.529049     Document Type: Article

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