Running head: CHILDREN'S ATTRIBUTIONS OF BELIEFS

Children's Attributions 3

Author note

Nicola Knight, Department of Psychology, Department of Anthropology, and Culture &
Cognition Program; Paulo Sousa, Department of Anthropology, and Culture & Cognition
Program; Justin L. Barrett, Institute for Social Research; Scott Atran, Institut Jean Nicod
(CNRS), and Institute for Social Research.

We would like to acknowledge the continuing support of the Culture and Cognition
Program at the University of Michigan. This research is also supported in part by grants from the
John Templeton Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Health,
and CAPES (Coordenagao de Aperfeigoamento de Pessoal de Nrvel Superior). Many thanks to
Valentina Vapnarsky for help with design and translations, to Edilberto Ucan Ek’ for help with
running the experiments, to Brian Malley for comments on a previous draft, and most of all to
the participants and their families for collaboration and hospitality in Yucatan. We would also
like to thank Dedre Gentner, Paul Harris, and one anonymous referee for their comments and
suggestions.

Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Nicola Knight,
Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, 525 East University, Ann Arbor, Michigan,
48109; Ph. +1 (734) 936-8438, Fax +1 (734) 764-3520, e-mail [email protected].

Keywords: False-belief tasks, God, religion, theory of mind, Yukatek Maya

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