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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
