Early false-belief understanding in traditional non-Western societies

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 280, Issue 1755, 2013, Pages

  Barrett, H Clark ^a   Broesch, Tanya ^b   Scott, Rose M ^c   He, Zijing ^d   Baillargeon, Renée ^e   Wu, Di ^f   Bolz, Matthias ^g   Henrich, Joseph ^h   Setoh, Peipei ^e   Wang, Jianxin ⁱ   Laurence, Stephen ^j  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^f CEDARVILLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

ⁱ LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^j UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

Evolutionary psychology; False belief understanding; Human universals; Social cognition; Theory of mind

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; COGNITION; HUMAN EVOLUTION; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PSYCHOLOGY; WESTERN WORLD;

EID: 84879063839     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.2654     Document Type: Article

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