?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Children's+attributions+of+beliefs+to+humans+and+God%3A+cross-cultural+evidence&rft.creator=Knight%2C+Nicola&rft.creator=Sousa%2C+Paulo&rft.creator=Barrett%2C+Justin+L.&rft.creator=Atran%2C+Scott&rft.subject=Developmental+Psychology&rft.subject=Comparative+Psychology&rft.subject=Cognitive+Psychology&rft.description=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%2C+we+present+the+results+of+a+false-belief+task+concerning+humans+and+God+run+with+a+sample+of+Maya+children+aged+4+to+7%2C+and+place+them+in+the+context+of+several+psychological+theories+of+cognitive+development.+Children+were+found+to+attribute+beliefs+in+different+ways+to+humans+and+God.+The+evidence+also+speaks+to+the+debate+concerning+the+universality+and+uniformity+of+the+development+of+folk-psychological+reasoning.%0A&rft.date=2003&rft.type=Preprint&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F2363%2F1%2FKnight_et_al._2004.pdf&rft.identifier=++Knight%2C+Nicola+and+Sousa%2C+Paulo+and+Barrett%2C+Justin+L.+and+Atran%2C+Scott++(2003)+Children's+attributions+of+beliefs+to+humans+and+God%3A+cross-cultural+evidence.++%5BPreprint%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F2363%2F