Multiple Developments in Counterfactual Thinking

Understanding Counterfactuals, Understanding Causation: Issues in Philosophy and Psychology

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Beck, Sarah R ^a   Riggs, Kevin J ^b   Burns, Patrick ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cognitive development; Executive function; Imagination; Possibilities

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921590427     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199590698.003.0006     Document Type: Chapter

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