Cognitive development, culture, and conversation: Comments on Harris and Koenig's "truth in testimony: How children learn about science and religion"

Child Development

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 525-530

  Callanan, Maureen A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD PARENT RELATION; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; EDUCATION; EMPIRICISM; HUMAN; MENTAL FUNCTION; PERSONAL CONSTRUCT THEORY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RELIGION; REVIEW; SCIENCE; SOCIALIZATION; THEOLOGY;

ADULT; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; EMPIRICISM; HUMANS; MENTAL PROCESSES; PARENTING; PERSONAL CONSTRUCT THEORY; RELIGION; SCIENCE; SOCIALIZATION; THEOLOGY;

EID: 33646676051     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2006.00887.x     Document Type: Review

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