Imagining the impossible : magical, scientific, and religious thinking in children

By K. Rosengren, Carl N. Johnson, Paul L. Harris. 2000

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Paranormal beliefs: their dimensionality and correlates (2006, background): “…a person high in magical thinking typically sees the world as holistic and integrated, where people, animals, places and natural phenomena are in a relation of contiguity in place and time (Piaget, 1929/1951; Tambiah, 1990), and that this idea may manifest itself as a world view (Johnson, 2000).”
Are Ethnic Groups Biological “Species” to the Human Brain? (2001, background): “How coherent or consistent are people’s belief systems (see also Rosengren, Johnson, and Harris 2000)?”
Learning from others: children's construction of concepts. (2009, background): “There is now growing evidence that rational and irrational modes of thought “coexist” in human reasoning: an individual can possess both rational (scientific) and non-rational modes of explanation, without viewing them as competing or contradictory (Evans 2000; Inagaki & Hatano 2002; Nemeroff & Rozi”