Things That Go Bump in the Night: An Examination of Magical Thinking in Young Children

Past research has shown that children as young as age 3 years are able to distinguish the difference between mental entities and real objects (Estes, Wellman, & Woolley, 1989). Yet, many children still display persistent fears of imaginary creatures, which they claim are not real. In the present...

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Main Author: Easton, Elizabeth
Format: Others
Published: TopSCHOLAR® 1995
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Online Access:http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/906
http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1909&context=theses