Wolof "Magical Thinking": Culture and Conservation Revisited
This paper examines the study of conservation among the Wolof of Senegal as illustrative of methodological problems in cross-cultural Piagetian research. Experiments carried out by Greenfield are compared with more recent investigations conducted in the same area of Senegal. The results suggest that...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage
1978
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Journal of cross-cultural psychology
Year: 1978, Volume: 9, Issue: 3, Pages: 300-310 |
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| Summary: | This paper examines the study of conservation among the Wolof of Senegal as illustrative of methodological problems in cross-cultural Piagetian research. Experiments carried out by Greenfield are compared with more recent investigations conducted in the same area of Senegal. The results suggest that cultural conventions governing the organization of talk are more likely to explain the responses of unschooled Wolof than is "magical thinking." |
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| ISSN: | 1552-5422 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of cross-cultural psychology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/002202217893003 |