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

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
Subjects:	Education Psychology
Online Access:	http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/906 http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1909&context=theses

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