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Children's attributions of beliefs to humans and God: cross-cultural evidence
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The capacity to attribute beliefs to others in order to understand action is one of the mainstays of human cognition. Yet it is debatable whether children attribute beliefs in the same way to all agents. In this paper, we present the results of a false-belief task concerning humans and God run with a sample of Maya children aged 4-7, and placed them in the context of several psychological theories of cognitive development. Children were found to attribute beliefs in different ways to humans a...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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John Templeton Foundation
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CAPES (Coordenaçao de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior)
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National Institute of Health
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National Science Foundation
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Elsevier Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Cognitive Science Journal website
- Volume:
- 28
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 117-126
- Publication date:
- 2004-01-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1551-6709
- ISSN:
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0364-0213
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- English
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- Local pid:
- ora:3125
- Deposit date:
- 2009-12-04
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- Copyright holder:
- Cognitive Science Society, 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 publisher copy link on this record page. N.B. Dr Barrett is now based at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford.
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