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The development and diversity of religious cognition and behavior: Protocol for Wave 1 data collection with children and parents by the Developing Belief Network

Weisman, Kara; Ghossainy, Maliki E.; Williams, Allison J.; Payir, Ayse; Lesage, Kirsten A.; Reyes-Jaquez, Bolivar; Amin, Tamer G.; Anggoro, Florencia K.; Burdett, Emily R. R.; Chen, Eva E.; Coetzee, Lezanie; Coley, John D.; Dahl, Audun; Dautel, Jocelyn B.; Davis, Helen Elizabeth; Davis, Elizabeth L.; Diesendruck, Gil; Evans, Denise; Feeney, Aidan; Gurven, Michael; Jee, Benjamin D.; Kramer, Hannah J.; Kushnir, Tamar; Kyriakopoulou, Natassa; McAuliffe, Katherine; McLaughlin, Abigail; Nichols, Shaun; Nicolopoulou, Ageliki; Rockers, Peter C.; Shneidman, Laura; Skopeliti, Irini; Srinivasan, Mahesh; Tarullo, Amanda R.; Taylor, Laura K.; Yu, Yue; Yucel, Meltem; Zhao, Xin; Corriveau, Kathleen H.; Richert, Rebekah A.; Developing Belief Network, Developing Belief Network

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Authors

Kara Weisman

Maliki E. Ghossainy

Allison J. Williams

Ayse Payir

Kirsten A. Lesage

Bolivar Reyes-Jaquez

Tamer G. Amin

Florencia K. Anggoro

Eva E. Chen

Lezanie Coetzee

John D. Coley

Audun Dahl

Jocelyn B. Dautel

Helen Elizabeth Davis

Elizabeth L. Davis

Gil Diesendruck

Denise Evans

Aidan Feeney

Michael Gurven

Benjamin D. Jee

Hannah J. Kramer

Tamar Kushnir

Natassa Kyriakopoulou

Katherine McAuliffe

Abigail McLaughlin

Shaun Nichols

Ageliki Nicolopoulou

Peter C. Rockers

Laura Shneidman

Irini Skopeliti

Mahesh Srinivasan

Amanda R. Tarullo

Laura K. Taylor

Yue Yu

Meltem Yucel

Xin Zhao

Kathleen H. Corriveau

Rebekah A. Richert

Developing Belief Network Developing Belief Network



Abstract

The Developing Belief Network is a consortium of researchers studying human development in diverse social-cultural settings, with a focus on the interplay between general cognitive development and culturally specific processes of socialization and cultural transmission in early and middle childhood. The current manuscript describes the study protocol for the network’s first wave of data collection, which aims to explore the development and diversity of religious cognition and behavior. This work is guided by three key research questions: (1) How do children represent and reason about religious and supernatural agents? (2) How do children represent and reason about religion as an aspect of social identity? (3) How are religious and supernatural beliefs transmitted within and between generations? The protocol is designed to address these questions via a set of nine tasks for children between the ages of 4 and 10 years, a comprehensive survey completed by their parents/caregivers, and a task designed to elicit conversations between children and caregivers. This study is being conducted in 39 distinct cultural-religious groups (to date), spanning 17 countries and 13 languages. In this manuscript, we provide detailed descriptions of all elements of this study protocol, give a brief overview of the ways in which this protocol has been adapted for use in diverse religious communities, and present the final, English-language study materials for 6 of the 39 cultural-religious groups who are currently being recruited for this study: Protestant Americans, Catholic Americans, American members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Jewish Americans, Muslim Americans, and religiously unaffiliated Americans.

Citation

Weisman, K., Ghossainy, M. E., Williams, A. J., Payir, A., Lesage, K. A., Reyes-Jaquez, B., … Developing Belief Network, . D. B. N. (2024). The development and diversity of religious cognition and behavior: Protocol for Wave 1 data collection with children and parents by the Developing Belief Network. PLoS ONE, 19(3), Article e0292755. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/wkjgs

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Sep 28, 2023
Online Publication Date Mar 8, 2024
Publication Date Mar 8, 2024
Deposit Date Nov 15, 2023
Publicly Available Date Nov 15, 2023
Journal PLoS ONE
Electronic ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher Public Library of Science
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 19
Issue 3
Article Number e0292755
DOI https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/wkjgs
Keywords Cognitive development; cognitive science of religion; cultural psychology; developing belief network; developmental psychology; religious cognition; social development
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/27372746
Publisher URL https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0292755
Additional Information Authors on behalf of the Developing Belief Network.

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