Mother-infant Interaction Quality and Infants' Ability to Encode Actions as Goal-directed

Social Development

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 340-356

  Licata, Maria ^a   Paulus, Markus ^a   Thoermer, Claudia ^a   Kristen, Susanne ^a   Woodward, Amanda L ^b   Sodian, Beate ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotional availability; Goal encoding; Mind mindedness; Mother infant interaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898855325     PISSN: 0961205X     EISSN: 14679507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/sode.12057     Document Type: Article

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