The 37th Sir Frederick Bartlett Lecture: Collaboration in young children

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-12

  Tomasello, Michael ^a   Hamann, Katharina ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Development; Perspective taking; Shared intentionality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859296773     PISSN: 17470218     EISSN: 17470226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470218.2011.608853     Document Type: Article

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