Religious Thinking from Childhood to Adolescence

By R. Goldman. 2022

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Attachment, Evolution, and the Psychology of Religion (2004, background): “Much research in this tradition has shown that the complexity of children’s thinking about God, prayer, and other religion-related topics follows a predictably progressive trend across age (Elkind, 1971; Goldman, 1964; Harms; 1944).”
Elicitation Techniques: Getting People to Talk About Ideas They Don’t Usually Talk About (2015, background): “In a study of the development of students’ ideas about religion, for example, Goldman (1964) showed (Christian) students a drawing of a young child entering church and asked how often they thought the family went there, what they thought the child enjoyed and did not enjoy about church, why the…”
Cognitive templates for religious concepts: cross-cultural evidence for recall of counter-intuitive representations (2001, background): “Cognitive studies of religion start from the premise that religious concepts are governed by the same kind of constraints as other concepts and can be investigated in the same way (Goldman, 1964; Watts & Williams, 1988; Barrett, 2000).”