Humans (really) are animals: Picture-book reading influences 5-year-old urban children's construal of the relation between humans and non-human animals

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue MAR, 2014, Pages

  Waxman, Sandra R ^a   Herrmann, Patricia ^a   Woodring, Jennie ^a   Medin, Douglas L ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropocentrism; Biological reasoning; Children's books; Cognitive development; Cultural priming

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897931858     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00172     Document Type: Article

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