Concepts and folk theories

Annual Review of Anthropology

Volumn 40, Issue , 2011, Pages 379-398

  Gelman, Susan A ^a   Legare, Cristine H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropology of mind; Biological theories; Children; Cognition; Psychology; Theory of mind

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY; COGNITION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; LEARNING; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGY; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 80053400698     PISSN: 00846570     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-anthro-081309-145822     Document Type: Article

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