Children's evaluation of the certainty of another person's inductive inferences and guesses

Cognitive Development

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 299-313

  Pillow, Bradford H ^a   Pearson, RaeAnne M ^a  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Certainty; Epistemology; Induction; Metacognition; Reasoning; Theory of mind

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863827620     PISSN: 08852014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2012.05.002     Document Type: Article

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