Attention to Context: U.S. and Japanese Children's Emotional Judgments

Journal of Cognition and Development

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 502-517

  Kuwabara, Megumi ^a   Son, Ji Y ^b   Smith, Linda B ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHILD; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; EMOTIONALITY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JAPAN; JAPANESE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RESPONSE TIME; STIMULUS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84859330905     PISSN: 15248372     EISSN: 15327647     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15248372.2011.554927     Document Type: Article

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