Young children's sensitivity to their own ignorance in informing others

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Kim, Sunae ^a,b   Paulus, Markus ^a   Sodian, Beate ^a   Proust, Joelle ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b SABANCI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AWARENESS; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; GESTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; UNCERTAINTY; FEMALE; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

CHILD; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GESTURES; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 84962469587     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0152595     Document Type: Article

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