Masking of Children's Early Understanding of the Representational Mind: Backwards Explanation versus Prediction
Child DevelopmentPublished 1 August 1995
Emily Robinson, Peter Mitchell
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E. J. Robinson, P. Mitchell, Masking of Children's Early Understanding of the Representational Mind: Backwards Explanation versus Prediction, Child Development, Vol. 66, No. 4 (Aug., 1995), pp. 1022-1039
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