Characterizing children's expectations about expertise and incompetence: Halo or pitchfork effects?

Child Development

Volumn 82, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1634-1647

  Koenig, Melissa A ^a   Jaswal, Vikram K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DECEPTION; DECISION MAKING; DOG; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; THEORY OF MIND; TRUST;

ANIMALS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CULTURE; DECEPTION; DOGS; FEMALE; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; THEORY OF MIND; TRUST;

EID: 79958197003     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2011.01618.x     Document Type: Article

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