Kids understand the relationship between humans and other animals
Tuesday, May 18, 2010 - 15:00
in Psychology & Sociology
Parents, educators and developmental psychologists have long been interested in how children understand the relationship between human and non-human animals. For decades, the consensus was that as children begin reasoning about the biological world, they adopt only one - markedly 'anthropocentric' - vantage point, favouring humans over non-human animals when it comes to learning about properties of animals...