What children infer from social categories

Cognitive Development

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 118-126

  Diesendruck, Gil ^a   Eldror, Ehud ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Essentialism; Induction; Na ve biology; Na ve psychology; Social categories

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955476787     PISSN: 08852014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2010.11.001     Document Type: Article

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