亲子沟通与儿童对超自然思维的理解

Research on how children come to differentiate the fallible minds of humans from the infallible mind of God has typically emphasized either broad socio-cultural influences or alternatively the specific religious knowledge that children acquire. Drawing on a social-interactionist perspective, we seek to integrate these approaches by examining whether this differentiation is supported by bidirectional parent–child communication: notably, parents’ initiation of and responsiveness to conversations about God, together with children’s own spontaneous comments on God’s extraordinary powers. We used t