Swiss Children's Moral and Psychological Judgments About Inclusion and Exclusion of Children With Disabilities

Child Development

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 532-548

  Gasser, Luciano ^a   Malti, Tina ^b   Buholzer, Alois ^a  

^a University of Teacher Education Lucerne   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; FEMALE; HANDICAPPED CHILD; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; MORALITY; PERCEPTION; PREJUDICE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGY; SWITZERLAND;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISABLED CHILDREN; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MORALS; PREJUDICE; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84896317394     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cdev.12124     Document Type: Article

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