Gender Differences in Elaborative Parent-Child Emotion and Play Narratives

Sex Roles

Volumn 68, Issue 9-10, 2013, Pages 591-604

  Zaman, Widaad ^a   Fivush, Robyn ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autobiographical memory; Emotion talk; Parent child interaction; Play

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876435034     PISSN: 03600025     EISSN: 15732762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11199-013-0270-7     Document Type: Article

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