Biais Cognitifs et Croyances

Rescuing magical thinking from the jaws of social determinism.

Child Dev . 1997;68 (6) :1021-3; discussion 1027-30

Résumé

Although there is otherwise much to recommend it, by riveting attention too narrowly on the contents of magical thought, and by recasting what is left of process in exclusively substantiative terms, this target article works to create the unwarranted impression that the magical thoughts of children and adults are all of a common piece. This commentary reads these oversights and omissions as symptoms of an unspoken new-situationalism working behind the back of Woolley's review.

Tous les articles