Do 10-month-old infants understand others' false beliefs?

Cognition

Volumn 121, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 289-298

  Luo, Yuyan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Beliefs; False beliefs; Infant cognition; Perceptions; Psychological understanding

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; COMPREHENSION; DECISION MAKING; FALSE BELIEF; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL BELIEF; TASK PERFORMANCE;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; CULTURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 80055096356     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2011.07.011     Document Type: Article

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