Possession is not always the law: With age, preschoolers increasingly use verbal information to identify who owns what

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 259-272

  Blake, Peter R ^a   Ganea, Patricia A ^b   Harris, Paul L ^c  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Language; Learning; Ownership; Possession; Social cognition; Testimony

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONFLICT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MALE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PERCEPTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; UNITED STATES;

CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MALE; OWNERSHIP; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84865737552     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2012.06.008     Document Type: Article

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