Children and adults as intuitive scientists.

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• Publication year

  1989

• Venue

  Psychology Review

• Publication date

  1989-10-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Education, Psychology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1037/0033-295X.96.4.674PMID 2798653
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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