Young Children's Affective Responses to Acceptance and Rejection From Peers: A Computer-based Task Sensitive to Variation in Temperamental Shyness and Gender

Social Development

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 146-162

  Howarth, Grace Z ^a   Guyer, Amanda E ^b   Pérez Edgar, Koraly ^c  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gender differences; Peer evaluation; Temperamental shyness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872603612     PISSN: 0961205X     EISSN: 14679507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/sode.12006     Document Type: Article

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