Judgments About Fact and Fiction by Children From Religious and Nonreligious Backgrounds
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It is suggested that exposure to religious ideas has a powerful impact on children's differentiation between reality and fiction, not just for religious stories but also for fantastical stories.About:
This article is published in Cognitive Science.The article was published on 2015-03-01 and is currently open access. It has received 74 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Magic (paranormal).read more
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Cultural group selection plays an essential role in explaining human cooperation: A sketch of the evidence.
Peter J. Richerson,Ryan Baldini,Adrian Bell,Kathryn Demps,Karl Frost,Vicken Hillis,Sarah Mathew,Emily K. Newton,Nicole Naar,Lesley Newson,Cody T. Ross,Paul E. Smaldino,Timothy M. Waring,Matthew R. Zefferman +13 more
TL;DR: This target article sketches the evidence from five domains that bear on the explanatory adequacy of cultural group selection and competing hypotheses to explain human cooperation and presents evidence, including quantitative evidence, that the answer to all of the questions is “yes” and argues that it is not clear that any extant alternative tocultural group selection can be a complete explanation.
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Cognitive Foundations of Learning from Testimony
TL;DR: As they age, children's reasoning about testimony increasingly reflects an ability not just to detect imperfect or inaccurate claims but also to assess what inferences may or may not be drawn about informants given their particular situation.
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The Role of Book Features in Young Children's Transfer of Information from Picture Books to Real-World Contexts.
TL;DR: It is concluded that children's ability to learn and transfer content from picture books can be disrupted by some book features and research should directly examine the interaction between children's developing abilities and book characteristics on children's learning.
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Learning to learn from stories: children's developing sensitivity to the causal structure of fictional worlds.
TL;DR: Examination of how children acquire causal knowledge from storybooks indicates that by at least 3 years of age, children are sensitive to the underlying causal structure of the story: Children are more likely to generalize content if the fictional world is similar to reality.
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The divided mind of a disbeliever: Intuitive beliefs about nature as purposefully created among different groups of non-religious adults
TL;DR: The results suggest that the tendency to view nature as designed is rooted in evolved cognitive biases as well as cultural socialization.
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Young children's knowledge about visual perception: Further evidence for the Level 1–Level 2 distinction.
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Cognitive and contextual factors in the emergence of diverse belief systems: creation versus evolution
TL;DR: Children's natural-history knowledge and religious interest predicted their evolutionist and creationist beliefs, respectively, independently of parent beliefs, and it is argued that this divergent developmental pattern is optimally explained with a model of constructive interactionism.
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Trust in Testimony: How Children Learn About Science and Religion
Paul L. Harris,Melissa A. Koenig +1 more
TL;DR: Children's understanding of God's special powers and the afterlife shows that their acceptance of others' testimony extends beyond the empirical domain, and children appear to conceptualize unobservable scientific and religious entities similarly.
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The coexistence of natural and supernatural explanations across cultures and development.
TL;DR: Converging developmental research from diverse cultural contexts in 3 areas of biological thought is reviewed to support the proposal that reasoning about supernatural phenomena is an integral and enduring aspect of human cognition.
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