Young children proactively remedy unnoticed accidents

Cognition

Volumn 126, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 101-108

  Warneken, Felix ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Comparative psychology; Cooperation; Prosociality; Social cognition

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BEHAVIOR; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOPERATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; MOTIVATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL COGNITION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACCIDENTS; AGING; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNICATION; CUES; FEMALE; HELPING BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; SOCIALIZATION;

EID: 84868341505     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2012.09.011     Document Type: Article

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