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Direct linkKnight, Nicola; Sousa, Paulo; Barrett, Justin L.; Atran, Scott – Cognitive Science, 2004
The capacity to attribute beliefs to others in order to understand action is one of the mainstays of human cognition. Yet it is debatable whether children attribute beliefs in the same way to all agents. In this paper, we present the results of a false-belief task concerning humans and God run with a sample of Maya children aged 4-7, and place…
Descriptors: Children, Maya (People), Beliefs, Cognitive Processes
Peer reviewedKing, Linda – International Review of Education/Internationale Zeitschrift fuer Erziehungswissenschaft/Revue Internationale de l'Education, 1999
Describes the central concept of Mayan culture, the possession of the soul, or ch'ulel, in the process of forming a knowledgeable person. Soul acquisition is important to becoming the ideal person, and to the educational formation of future generations. Looks at the role language plays in culture as memory, thought formation, and learning process.…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Cognitive Processes, Cultural Context, Folk Culture
