The Plausible Impossible: Chinese Adults Hold Graded Notions of Impossibility
Abstract Events that violate the laws of nature are, by definition, impossible, but recent research suggests that people view some violations as “more impossible” than others (Shtulman & Morgan, 2017). When evaluating the difficulty of magic spells, American adults are influenced by causal consi...
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Brill
2021
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Journal of cognition and culture
Year: 2021, Volume: 21, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 76-93 |
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China
/ Adult
/ Impossibility
/ Magic
/ Imagination
/ Assessment
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| IxTheo Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism AG Religious life; material religion AZ New religious movements KBM Asia ZD Psychology |
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magical reasoning
B Imagination B intuitive theories B Causal reasoning |
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