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Kelemen, Deborah; Emmons, Natalie; Brown, Sarah A.; Gallik, Connor – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2021
Two studies investigated children's and their parents' reasoning about their mental and bodily states during the time prior to biological conception--"preexistence." Prior research has suggested that, in the absence of a religious script, children display untutored intuitions that they existed as largely disembodied emotional beings…
Descriptors: Religion, Religious Factors, Parent Child Relationship, Christianity