• closedAccess   Lorenz Revisited: The Adaptive Nature of Children’s Supernatural Thinking 

      Bjorklund, David F.; Hernández Blasi, Carlos; Periss, Virginia Springer US (2010-12)
      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 ...