Whom to ask for help? Children's developing understanding of other people's action capabilities

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 211, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 593-600

  Paulus, Markus ^a   Moore, Chris ^b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Action capability; Development; Helping; Joint action; Prosocial behavior

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 85027920878     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-011-2676-1     Document Type: Article

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