Theory of Mind in the Wild: Toward Tackling the Challenges of Everyday Mental State Reasoning

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Wertz, Annie E ^a   German, Tamsin C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL TASK; PRESCHOOL CHILD; TASK PERFORMANCE; THEORY OF MIND; THINKING;

ADULT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; THEORY OF MIND;

EID: 84884194567     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0072835     Document Type: Article

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