Mapping the Cultural Learnability Landscape of Danger

Child Development

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 770-781

  Clark Barrett, H ^a   Peterson, Christopher D ^a   Frankenhuis, Willem E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMERICAN; ARTIFACT; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECUADOR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANDSCAPE; CALIFORNIA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; FEAR; FEMALE; LEARNING; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURE; ECUADOR; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; LOS ANGELES; MALE;

EID: 84968735761     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cdev.12495     Document Type: Article

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