God's beliefs versus Mother's: the development of non-human agent concepts

Little research exists on how children understand the actions of nonhuman agents. Researchers often assume that children overgeneralize and attribute human properties such as false beliefs to nonhuman agents. In this study, three experiments were conducted to test this assumption. The experiments us...

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Main Authors: Barrett, J, Richert, R, Driesenga, A
Other Authors: Society for Research in Child Development, Inc.
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Blackwell Publishing 2003
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