Development of Afterlife Beliefs in Childhood: Relationship to Parent Beliefs and Testimony
@article{Misailidi2015DevelopmentOA, title={Development of Afterlife Beliefs in Childhood: Relationship to Parent Beliefs and Testimony}, author={Plousia Misailidi and Ekaterina N. Kornilaki}, journal={Merrill-Palmer Quarterly}, year={2015}, volume={61}, pages={290 - 318} }
This study examined the development of children’s reasoning about the afterlife and its relationship with parental afterlife beliefs and testimony. A total of 123 children aged 5, 7, and 10 years were read a story describing the events that led to a person’s death. After hearing the story, children were asked questions about the dead agent’s biological, perceptual, epistemic-volitional, and emotional states and about the agent’s capacity to engage in conscious mental activity. Parents completed…
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