Three-Year-Olds' Understanding of the Consequences of Joint Commitments

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Gräfenhain, Maria ^a,b   Carpenter, Malinda ^c   Tomasello, Michael ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; COOPERATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOINT COMMITMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HELPING BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 84883432449     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0073039     Document Type: Article

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