The social perspective taking process: What motivates individuals to take another's perspective?

Teachers College Record

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Gehlbach, Hunter ^a   Brinkworth, Maureen E ^a   Wang, Ming Te ^a  

^a HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION   (United States)

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