Do Early Social Cognition and Executive Function Predict Individual Differences in Preschoolers' Prosocial and Antisocial Behavior?

Self- and Social-Regulation: Exploring the Relations Between Social Interaction, Social Understanding, and the Development of Executive Functions

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Hughes, Claire ^a   Ensor, Rosie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Executive function; Family environment; Longitudinal; Observational learning; Preschoolers; Scaffolding

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920574572     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195327694.003.0017     Document Type: Chapter

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