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Direct linkNewman, George E.; Keil, Frank C. – Child Development, 2008
The present studies investigated children's and adults' intuitive beliefs about the physical nature of essences. Adults and children (ranging in age from 6 to 10 years old) were asked to reason about 2 different ways of determining an unknown object's category: taking a tiny internal sample from any part of the object (distributed view of essence)…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Child Development, Intuition, Adults
