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Direct linkLiu, David; Gelman, Susan A.; Wellman, Henry M. – Child Development, 2007
Trait attribution is central to people's naive theories of people and their actions. Previous developmental research indicates that young children are poor at predicting behaviors from past trait-relevant behaviors. We propose that the cognitive process of behavior-to-behavior predictions consists of two component processes: (1) behavior-to-trait…
Descriptors: Social Theories, Behavior, Personality Traits, Prediction
