Journal article
God's beliefs versus Mother's: the development of non-human agent concepts
- Abstract:
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Little research exists on how children understand the actions of nonhuman agents. Researchers often assume that children overgeneralize and attribute human properties such as false beliefs to nonhuman agents. In this study, three experiments were conducted to test this assumption. The experiments used 24 children in New York (aged 2,11–6,11 years), 52 children in Michigan (aged 3,5–6,11 years), and a second group of 45 children in Michigan (3,4–8,5 years) from Christian backgrounds. In the fi...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Blackwell Publishing
- Journal:
- Child Development Journal website
- Volume:
- 72
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 50-65
- Publication date:
- 2003-01-28
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1467-8624
- ISSN:
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0009-3920
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- Language:
- English
- Subjects:
- UUID:
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uuid:8925addb-3f52-4591-ad21-f174d37380e4
- Local pid:
- ora:3118
- Deposit date:
- 2009-12-01
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- Copyright holder:
- Society for Research in Child Development, Inc
- Copyright date:
- 2003
- Notes:
- The full-text of this article is not available in ORA, but you may be able to access the article via the DOI or publisher links on this record page. Dr Barrett is now based at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford.
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