Children's use of counterfactual thinking in causal reasoning.

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• Publication year

  1996

• Venue

  Cognition

• Publication date

  1996-12-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Education, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1016/S0010-0277(96)00715-9PMID 8990973
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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