The Early Ontogeny of Social Norms

Child Development Perspectives

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 17-21

  Rakoczy, Hannes ^a   Schmidt, Marco F H ^b  

^a University of Godie ttingen   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Normativity; Social cognition; Social norms; Theory of mind

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873635116     PISSN: 17508592     EISSN: 17508606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cdep.12010     Document Type: Article

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