"Why does rain fall?": Children prefer to learn from an informant who uses noncircular explanations

Child Development

Volumn 85, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1827-1835

  Corriveau, Kathleen H ^a   Kurkul, Katelyn E ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

AGE FACTORS; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LEARNING; MALE;

EID: 84907868461     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cdev.12240     Document Type: Article

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