Children's attributions of beliefs to humans and God: Cross-cultural evidence

Cognitive Science

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 117-126

  Knight, Nicola ^a   Sousa, Paulo ^a   Barrett, Justin L ^a   Atran, Scott ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

False belief tasks; God; Religion; Theory of mind; Yukatek Maya

Indexed keywords

EID: 1142278827     PISSN: 03640213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogsci.2003.09.002     Document Type: Article

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