Children, Social Cognition, and the Divine
Rebekah A. Richert is an Associate Professor of Psychology, and director of the Childhood Cognition Lab,
at the University of California, Riverside. Her research focuses on the
cultural and social-cognitive dimensions of children’s understandings
of religion, fantasy, and media. Richert’s latest project, supported by the SSRC’s New Directions in the Study of Prayer
initiative, examines how prayer practices and instruction shape
children’s concepts of God and supernatural causality. On a recent
afternoon, I spoke with Richert about her current work and its
implications.Full Article
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