Evaluations versus expectations: Children's divergent beliefs about resource distribution

Cognitive Science

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 178-193

  Dejesus, Jasmine M ^a   Rhodes, Marjorie ^b   Kinzler, Katherine D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive development; Egalitarianism; Intergroup behavior; Social cognition

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; EGALITARIANISM; HUMAN; INTERGROUP BEHAVIOR; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL COGNITION;

COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; EGALITARIANISM; INTERGROUP BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL COGNITION;

AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; HUMANS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84892993530     PISSN: 03640213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cogs.12093     Document Type: Article

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