Working across religions, cultures, settings, and development: Protocol for wave 2 data collection with children and parents by the developing belief network.

ABSTRACT: The Developing Belief Network is a global research collaborative studying religious development in diverse social-cultural settings, with a focus on the intersection of cognitive mechanisms and cultural beliefs and practices in early and middle childhood. The current manuscript describes the study protocol for the network's second wave of data collection, which aims to further explore the development and diversity of religious cognition and behavior using a multi-time point approach. This protocol is designed to investigate three key research questions-how children represent and reason about religious and supernatural agents, how children represent and reason about religion as an aspect of social identity, and how religious and supernatural beliefs are transmitted within and between genera

SUBMITTER: Williams-Gant AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12412925 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature