Developmental precursors of young school-age children's hostile attribution bias

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 49, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 2245-2256

  Choe, Daniel Ewon ^a   Lane, Jonathan D ^b   Grabell, Adam S ^c   Olson, Sheryl L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Effortful control; Emotion; Hostile attribution; Social cognition; Theory of mind

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; FEMALE; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; PEER GROUP; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL CONTROL; STATISTICAL BIAS; STATISTICS;

AGGRESSION; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; FEMALE; HOSTILITY; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PEER GROUP; SOCIAL CONTROL, INFORMAL; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84890104865     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0032293     Document Type: Article

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