Lorenz Revisited: The Adaptive Nature of Children’s Supernatural Thinking
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Lorenz Revisited: The Adaptive Nature of Children’s Supernatural ThinkingFecha de publicación
2010-12Editor
Springer USISSN
1045-6767Tipo de documento
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Certain characteristics of childhood immaturity (e.g., infantile facial features) may have been favored by natural selection to evoke positive feelings in adults. We propose that some aspects of cognitive immaturity ... [+]
Certain characteristics of childhood immaturity (e.g., infantile facial features) may have been favored by natural selection to evoke positive feelings in adults. We propose that some aspects of cognitive immaturity might also endear young children to adults. In two studies, adults rated expressions of mature and immature thinking attributed to children. Immature thinking in which children expressed a supernatural explanation elicited positive affect reactions, whereas other forms of immature thinking, which made no attribution to supernatural causation, were responded to negatively. This pattern was found for parents and others, males and females, American and Spanish college students, and for target children 3 to 9 years of age. We suggest that persistence of supernatural thinking in adulthood causes people to view the expressions of such thinking in children in a positive manner, fostering nurturance of young children who display them. [-]
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Human Nature, v. 21, n. 4, p. 371-392Derechos de acceso
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