Children's Attributions of Beliefs to Humans and God: Cross-Cultural Evidence

Autor/inn/en	Knight, Nicola; Sousa, Paulo; Barrett, Justin L.; Atran, Scott
Titel	Children's Attributions of Beliefs to Humans and God: Cross-Cultural Evidence
Quelle	In: Cognitive Science, 28 (2004) 1, S.117-126 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0364-0213
DOI	10.1016/j.cogsci.2003.09.002
Schlagwörter	Children; Maya (People); Beliefs; Cognitive Processes; Cognitive Psychology; Epistemology; Cognitive Development + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Child; Kind; Kinder; Belief; Glaube; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Kognitive Psychologie; Erkenntnistheorie; Kognitive Entwicklung
Abstract	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 place them in the context of several psychological theories of cognitive development. Children were found to attribute beliefs in different ways to humans and God. The evidence also speaks to the debate concerning the universality and uniformity of the development of folk-psychological reasoning. (Author).
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