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“All I really need to know I learned in kindergarten” or is “cultural learning” anthropo-, ethno-, or adultocentric?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Heidi Keller  and
Athanasios Chasiotis
Heidi Keller
Affiliation:
Fachbereich Psychologie, Universitaet Osnabrueck, D-49069 Osnabrueck, Germany, keller@dosunil.rz.uni-osnabrueck.de and achaos@dosunil.rz.uni-osnabrueck.de
Athanasios Chasiotis
Affiliation:
Fachbereich Psychologie, Universitaet Osnabrueck, D-49069 Osnabrueck, Germany, keller@dosunil.rz.uni-osnabrueck.de and achaos@dosunil.rz.uni-osnabrueck.de
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 17 , Issue 4 , December 1994 , pp. 779 - 780
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