Parental ethnotheories, social practice and the culture-specific development of social smiling in infants

Mind, Culture, and Activity

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 79-95

  Kärtner, Joscha ^a   Holodynski, Manfred ^a   Wörmann, Viktoriya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

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EID: 84873461623     PISSN: 10749039     EISSN: 15327884     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10749039.2012.742112     Document Type: Article

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