{"id":713,"date":"2016-10-04T10:07:33","date_gmt":"2016-10-04T14:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/learninglab\/?page_id=713"},"modified":"2016-10-24T19:21:11","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T23:21:11","slug":"new-project-childrens-scientific-and-religious-cognition","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/learninglab\/new-project-childrens-scientific-and-religious-cognition\/","title":{"rendered":"New Project: Children&#8217;s Scientific and Religious Cognition"},"content":{"rendered":"<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>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 by the John Templeton Foundation, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12531,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/learninglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/713"}],"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\/12531"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/learninglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=713"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/learninglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1041,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/learninglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/713\/revisions\/1041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/learninglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}