Children's Reasoning About Social Exclusion: Balancing Many Factors

Child Development Perspectives

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 22-27

  Mulvey, Kelly Lynn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Group dynamics; Reasoning; Social exclusion

Indexed keywords

EID: 84958648682     PISSN: 17508592     EISSN: 17508606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cdep.12157     Document Type: Article

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