Animism and related tendencies in Hopi children.

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"Ninety-eight Hopi children between the ages of twelve and eighteen years were given a standardized interview with respect to animism and also a standardized interview with regard to moral realism, and 69 of them were further questioned with respect to the attribution of consciousness to objects. The Hopi subjects were more animistic and expressed more belief in the consciousness of objects and in moral realism than do white American subjects of the same ages. The concepts of the Hopi children, however, are of the same types as those found among white children . . . The differences in the rate at which early ideas are abandoned in Hopi and white communities may be due to a variety of cultural factors which at present cannot be separated." (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)

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