Children's naive theories of intelligence influence their metacognitive judgments

Child Development

Volumn 84, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1879-1886

  Miele, David B ^a   Son, Lisa K ^b   Metcalfe, Janet ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b Program on US Russia Relations at Columbia s Harriman Institute   (United States)

^c Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CHILD; COMPREHENSION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; MOTIVATION; PHYSIOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; READING;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTITUDE; CHILD; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; JUDGMENT; MALE; MOTIVATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; READING;

EID: 84887357422     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cdev.12101     Document Type: Article

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