Young Children's Understanding of Imagination

Woolley, Jacqueline D.

Abstract

Funding Agency

• Agency: National Institute of Health (NIH)
• Institute: Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD)
• Type: First Independent Research Support & Transition (FIRST) Awards (R29)
• Project #: 5R29HD030300-04
• Application #: 2202623
• Study Section: Human Development and Aging Subcommittee 3 (HUD)
• Project Start: 1993-09-01
• Project End: 1998-08-31
• Budget Start: 1996-09-01
• Budget End: 1997-08-31
• Support Year: 4
• Fiscal Year: 1996

Institution

• Name: University of Texas Austin
• Department: Psychology
• Type: Schools of Arts and Sciences
• City: Austin
• State: TX
• Country: United States
• Zip Code: 78712

Publications

Vaden, Victoria Cox; Woolley, Jacqueline D (2011) Does God make it real? Children's belief in religious stories from the Judeo-Christian tradition. Child Dev 82:1120-35

Boerger, Elizabeth A; Tullos, Ansley; Woolley, Jacqueline D (2009) Return of the Candy Witch: individual differences in acceptance and stability of belief in a novel fantastical being. Br J Dev Psychol 27:953-70

Tullos, Ansley; Woolley, Jacqueline D (2009) The development of children's ability to use evidence to infer reality status. Child Dev 80:101-14

Woolley, J D; Phelps, K E; Davis, D L et al. (1999) Where theories of mind meet magic: the development of children's beliefs about wishing. Child Dev 70:571-87

Woolley, J D (1997) Thinking about fantasy: are children fundamentally different thinkers and believers from adults? Child Dev 68:991-1011

Woolley, J D (1995) Young children's understanding of fictional versus epistemic mental representations: imagination and belief. Child Dev 66:1011-2