Intuitions About Origins: Purpose and Intelligent Design in Children's Reasoning About Nature

By Deborah Kelemen, Cara DiYanni. 2005

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, History and Philosophy of Science, Social Psychology

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The Biological Evolution of Religious Mind and Behavior (2009, background): “evolved range of the human mind includes such phenomena as “naive dualism” (Bering 2006), “teleological thought” (Kelemen and DiYanni 2005), “psychological essentialism” (Gelman 2003), a “theory of mind”, an “agency detection device””
Youth perceptions of climate change: A narrative synthesis (2020, background): “There is some evidence to suggest that younger children, up to 9–10 years of age, are more flexible about overwriting information in their existing mental models than older children and adults (Kelemen & DiYanni, 2005).”
“Meant to be”: how religious beliefs and cultural religiosity affect the implicit bias to think teleologically (2014, background): “Kelemen and DiYanni (2005) posit that by age 10, most Western children know that scientific explanations are considered correct, but do not necessarily have enough mastery of scientific information to generate these answers for themselves, so when confronted with an open-ended question, children…”
Seeing the Wood for the Trees: An Analysis of Evolutionary Diagrams in Biology Textbooks (2008, background): “One of biggest obstacles we need to overcome in evolution education is the teleological mindset that evolution is in some way a purposeful and directed process (e.g., Demastes et al. 1995, 1996, Evans 2001, Kelemen and DiYanni 2005, Catley 2006, Sandvik 2008).”
Developmental Continuity in Teleo-Functional Explanation: Reasoning about Nature Among Romanian Romani Adults (2008, methodology): “…both distinguish between natural objects and artifacts (e.g., Gelman & Wellman, 1991; Massey & Gelman, 1988; Pauen, 2002) and recognize that people tend to make artifacts but not natural entities (Gelman & Kremer, 1991; Kelemen & DiYanni, 2005; for an alternative perspective see Evans, 2000).”
Someone is pulling the strings: hypersensitive agency detection and belief in conspiracy theories (2016, background): “Much of the time individuals are able to override or inhibit these tendencies, but under conditions of limited processing ability, people commonly attribute intentionality where it does not exist and see natural phenomena as having some hidden purpose (Kelemen & DiYanni, 2005; Rosset, 2008).”