Anthropomorphism In Children

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Some evidence is challenging anthropomorphism concept, where it is believed that children are taught to attribute unique characterizes to God that are not specific to humans (Barret & Keil, 1996). For example, children would claim that God, but not their mothers, would understand the content of a cracker box that is filled with rocks (Barret, Newman, & Richert, 2003), or that God would understand the meaning of ambiguous drawings but not their mothers (Barret, Richert, & Driesenga, 2001). In one of the more recent studies done with children 3-8 year olds, Wigger, Paxson, & Ryan (2013) concluded that how children conceptualize God doesn’t change over time based on new acquired knowledge and experiences, which is unlike the concepts about friends,

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