Differentiating “could” from “should”: Developmental changes in modal cognition

2017/06/23 by Andrew Shtulman, Jonathan Phillips · 100 citations
Neuroscience · Psychology · #Action Observation and Synchronization #Child and Animal Learning Development #Cognition #Cognitive psychology #Developmental psychology #Event (particle physics) #Impossibility #Lying #Modal #Psychology #Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment #Set (abstract data type) #Social cognition #Social psychology

paper · doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2017.05.012

published in Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 165, 161-182 (Elsevier BV)

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