Chilean children's essentialist reasoning about poverty

British Journal of Developmental Psychology

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 722-743

  del Río, María Francisca ^a   Strasser, Katherine ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DIEGO PORTALES   (Chile)

^b PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILE; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; POVERTY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMICS;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHILE; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; POVERTY; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 80054056903     PISSN: 0261510X     EISSN: 2044835X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1348/2044-835X.002005     Document Type: Article

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