Religious testimony in a secular society: Belief in unobservable entities among Chinese parents and their children.
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...By contrast, this relation might not emerge in our analyses in the domain of science because we anticipated little to no variation in parent and children’s ontological judgments (i.e., almost everyone will be very confident that the scientific entities exist; see Clegg et al., 2019; Cui et al., 2019; Davoodi et al., 2020)....
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...vious research in the US and other cultural contexts (Clegg et al., 2019; Cui et al., 2019; Davoodi et al., 2020, 2018; Guerrero et al., 2010; Harris et al., 2006), parents and 5- to 7-year-old children were more confident in the existence of the scientific entities in...
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...This research replicates previous studies showing that adults and children often hold similar beliefs about unobservable and endorsed beings (Cui et al., 2019; Davoodi et al., 2018; Harris et al., 2006) and that parents talk differently about these entities (Canfield & Ganea, 2014) but takes a substantial step forward to emphasize testimony as one of the primary socio-cultural mechanisms through which such beliefs develop....
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...Despite these crossdomain similarities in patterns of justification, children profess more confidence in the existence of scientific as compared to supernatural unobservables (among other endorsed entities), in most of the cultural contexts studied thus far (Clegg, Cui, Harris, & Corriveau, 2019; Cui et al., 2019; Davoodi et al., 2020, 2018; Guerrero, Enesco, & Harris, 2010; Harris & Corriveau, 2021; Harris et al., 2006)....
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...We chose these items based on those used in the previous research that investigated relations among parent–child scientific and religious beliefs (Cui et al., 2019; Davoodi et al., 2018) and survey data that indicated a strong consensus about the existence and nonexistence of these entities within individuals in the United States (Clegg et al....
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