Adults commonly conceptualize intentional harms as worse than accidental harms. We probed the developmental trajectory of this pattern and asked whether U.S. children (4 – to 7-year-olds) adults expected other agents including another person God share their views. In contrast with some prior work, even youngest in present study considered intent when making moral judgments. Although did not dis...

27 Moral violations are typically defined as actions that harm others. However, suicide is 28 considered immoral even though the perpetrator is also the victim. To determine whether 29 concerns about purity rather than harm predict moral condemnation of suicide, we 30 presented American adults with obituaries describing suicide or homicide victims. While 31 harm was the only variable predicting...

The article examines the problem of Islamic education in modern Russian society. increase scientific interest issues religious is due to objective and subjective factors, such as transformation foundations society, which naturally contributed an mass consciousness importance belief supernatural forces. In other words, atheistic ideology was replaced by opportunity fill resulting vacuum. Of cour...

In two studies, 5- and 6-year-old children were questioned about the status of the protagonist embedded in three different types of stories. In realistic stories that only included ordinary events, all children, irrespective of family background and schooling, claimed that the protagonist was a real person. In religious stories that included ordinarily impossible events brought about by divine ...

Teachers make a variety of judgments as they teach. The accuracy these may influence instruction and student achievement. This study examined how accurately religious educators judge learning, what cues report using to judgements, cue utilization affected their accuracy. Judgment was greater for teachers who reported related class performance than those did not. not personal attributes did. The...

BACKGROUND The study of social categorization has largely been confined to examining groups distinguished by perceptually obvious cues. Yet many ecologically important group distinctions are less clear, permitting insights into the general processes involved in person perception. Although religious group membership is thought to be perceptually ambiguous, folk beliefs suggest that Mormons and n...