On childhood animism
April 8, 2010emily No Comments »I’ve been doing research lately on Jean Piaget’s theory of childhood animism. Piaget was a Swiss psychologist who was the first to publish research on childhood animism: the idea that children believe inanimate objects, like dolls, to be alive. But it doesn’t have to be dolls, which are recognizably human-like. It can be anything, like [...]