Imagining the Impossible
Subtitle: Magical, Scientific, and Religious Thinking in Children
Contributors: Karl S. Rosengren (Editor); Carl N. Johnson (Editor); Paul L. Harris (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: May 29, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 438
ISBN-13: 9780521593229
Subjects: Child & developmental psychology; Cognition & cognitive psychology; General; Cognition in children; Religious life; Psychology; Reasoning in children; Magical thinking in children; Cognitive Psychology; Developmental - Child; Psychology & Psychiatry / General; Children
First sentence: Although the word magic is common in both scholarly and lay discourse, the variety of things to which it refers is far-reaching, ranging from a social institution characteristic of traditional societies, to sleight-of-hand or parlor tricks, to belief in unconventional phenomena such as UFOs and ESP, to sloppy thinking or false beliefs, and even to a state of romance, wonder, or the mysterious.