{"id":1060,"date":"2017-02-17T16:56:42","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T21:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/learninglab\/?page_id=1060"},"modified":"2017-02-17T16:58:28","modified_gmt":"2017-02-17T21:58:28","slug":"new-project","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/learninglab\/research\/new-project\/","title":{"rendered":"New Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"headerfont\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Children&#8217;s Scientific and Religious Cognition<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/learninglab\/files\/2012\/02\/bluebarthin.png\" alt=\"bluebarthin\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-335\" height=\"15\" width=\"1276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/learninglab\/files\/2012\/02\/bluebarthin.png 1276w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/learninglab\/files\/2012\/02\/bluebarthin-636x7.png 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/learninglab\/files\/2012\/02\/bluebarthin-1024x12.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1276px) 100vw, 1276px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We are delighted to announce that in collaboration with the <a href=\"http:\/\/pharris.squarespace.com\/lab\/\" target=\"_blank\">Early Childhood Lab<\/a> at Harvard University (Director, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gse.harvard.edu\/faculty\/paul-harris\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Harris<\/a>), the Social Learning Lab has launched a new project examining how children from the USA and other countries conceptualize religious and scientific claims. With this project, which has been generously funded by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.templeton.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">John Templeton Foundation<\/a>, we plan to run several studies that aim to answer the following questions:<\/p>\n<p>1. What are the cognitive differences and similarities in children\u2019s conceptualization of scientific and religious phenomena?<\/p>\n<p>2. What is the transmission process involved in these conceptualizations?<\/p>\n<p>3. Are there any cultural universals in these conceptualizations?<\/p>\n<p>Please click the links below to learn more information about our:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/learninglab\/?page_id=727&amp;preview=true\" target=\"_blank\">Research Group<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/learninglab\/?page_id=846&amp;preview=true\" target=\"_blank\">Publications<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/learninglab\/?page_id=848&amp;preview=true\" target=\"_blank\">Presentations<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Children&#8217;s Scientific and Religious Cognition We are delighted to announce that in collaboration with the Early Childhood Lab at Harvard University (Director, Paul Harris), the Social Learning Lab has launched a new project examining how children from the USA and other countries conceptualize religious and scientific claims. With this project, which has been generously funded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12529,"featured_media":0,"parent":32,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/learninglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1060"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/learninglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/learninglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/learninglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12529"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/learninglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1060"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/learninglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1062,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/learninglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1060\/revisions\/1062"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/learninglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/learninglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}