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Telli Davoodi
Researcher at Boston University
Publications - 19
Citations - 205
Telli Davoodi is an academic researcher from Boston University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Unobservable & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 14 publications receiving 114 citations. Previous affiliations of Telli Davoodi include Princeton University & Wheelock College.
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Beliefs About Religious and Scientific Entities Among Parents and Children in Iran
Telli Davoodi,Maryam Jamshidi-Sianaki,Faezeh Abedi,Ayse Payir,Yixin Kelly Cui,Paul L. Harris,Kathleen H. Corriveau +6 more
TL;DR: This paper found that children and adults express more confidence in the existence of unobservable scientific (e.g., germs), as compared to religious, phenomena such as the soul.
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Essentialization of Social Categories Across Development in Two Cultures.
TL;DR: Analysis of the development of the essentialist bias across five social categories in two countries indicates surprising cross-cultural parallels with respect to both the rank ordering of essentialist thinking across these five categories and increasing differentiation among them over development.
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Distinguishing between realistic and fantastical figures in Iran.
TL;DR: It is suggested that children's willingness to conceive of figures in fantastical stories as real is explained by their exposure to religious narratives alleging that miracles have actually happened.
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Religious testimony in a secular society: Belief in unobservable entities among Chinese parents and their children.
Yixin Kelly Cui,Jennifer M. Clegg,Eleanor Fang Yan,Telli Davoodi,Paul L. Harris,Kathleen H. Corriveau +5 more
TL;DR: The results indicate that children's religious beliefs are related to the beliefs of their parents, even when those beliefs go against the majority view.
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Are high levels of religiosity inconsistent with a high valuation of science? Evidence from the United States, China and Iran
Ayse Payir,Telli Davoodi,Kelly Yixin Cui,Jennifer M. Clegg,Paul L. Harris,Kathleen H. Corriveau +5 more
TL;DR: Findings qualify the assumption that religiosity is inconsistent with the valuation of science and highlight the role of sociocultural context in shaping adults' perception of the relation between religion and science.