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Heiphetz, Larisa; Lane, Jonathan D.; Waytz, Adam; Young, Liane L. – Cognitive Science, 2016
For centuries, humans have contemplated the minds of gods. Research on religious cognition is spread across sub-disciplines, making it difficult to gain a complete understanding of how people reason about gods' minds. We integrate approaches from cognitive, developmental, and social psychology and neuroscience to illuminate the origins of…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Processes, Religion, Beliefs
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Lane, Jonathan D.; Wellman, Henry M.; Olson, Sheryl L.; Miller, Alison L.; Wang, Li; Tardif, Twila – Developmental Psychology, 2013
The emotional reactivity hypothesis holds that, over the course of phylogeny, the selection of animals with less reactive temperaments supported the development of sophisticated social-cognitive skills in several species, including humans (Hare, 2007). In the ontogenetic human case, an emotional reactivity hypothesis predicts that children with…
Descriptors: Withdrawal (Psychology), Shyness, Interpersonal Competence, Preschool Children