Young children's use of statistical sampling evidence to infer the subjectivity of preferences

Cognition

Volumn 120, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 403-411

  Ma, Lili ^a   Xu, Fei ^b  

^a RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Preference; Social reasoning; Statistical inference; Subjective mental states

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD PREFERENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOM SAMPLE; RELIABILITY; SAMPLING; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

AGING; BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; JUDGMENT; MALE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79959776894     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2011.02.003     Document Type: Article

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