Product Description: If children were little scientists who learn best through firsthand observations and mini-experiments, how would a child discover that the earth is round―never mind conceive of heaven as a place someone might go after death? Trusting What You’re Told begins by reminding us of a basic truth: Most of what we know we learned from others...read more

Product Description: A long intellectual tradition, uniting such diverse figures as Freud and Piaget, states that children's early fantasy life is primitive and disorganized. In The Work of the Imagination Paul Harris argues against this tradition, showing that children's ability to imagine hypothetical and counterfactual possibilities makes a continuing contribution to their cognitive and emotional development...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

The study of early cognitive development has emphasized the way in which young children act like scientists, testing and revising theories about the physical, biological, and psychological world. Evidence of this early understanding of the natural order has led researchers to reconsider children's thinking about magical, religious, or otherwise supernatural orders. The present volume offers reviews of new lines of research on children's thinking that stretch beyond the ordinary boundaries of reality. More than being "little scientists," children are here considered as "little magicians," "little metaphysicians," "little theologians" and "little story tellers" or "dramatists," imagining other-worldly possibilities. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: We all have minds of our own. The fact that we all experience our own thoughts, ideas, and imaginings, and that other people can know about them only if we choose to tell them, is taken for granted by most of us. But young children, whose understanding of everyday mental states is quite different, do not necessarily jump to the same conclusion...read more

Product Description: Drawing together the most recent thinking and empirical research on how children come to understand the causal links that connect particular situations, this work examines different aspects of how children from the pre-school years to early adolescence make sense of emotional experience...read more

Product Description: A unique collection of empirical reports and conceptual analysis by leading researchers examines the fundamental change that occurs in children's cognition between the ages of two and six.

Product Description: If we are to love, help, persuade or oppose other people, we must gauge what they think and want. Human interaction depends on what has been called a "theory of mind". One crucial component of that theory is an understanding of emotion...read more