Judgments About Fact and Fiction by Children From Religious and Nonreligious Backgrounds

Religious Children Less Capable of Distinguishing Fantasy from Reality

In two studies, 5- and 6-year-old children were questioned about the status of the protagonist embedded in three different types of stories. In realistic stories that only included ordinary events, all children, irrespective of family background and schooling, claimed that the protagonist was a real person. In…

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• empiricism
• fantasy
• realism
• religion