"The ability of young children to distinguish fact from fiction varies
considerably with exposure to religion, two new studies have found.
Children who did not attend parochial (religious) schools or church were
significantly better at identifying characters in religious or fantasy
stories as pretend than those who did. The studies have been published
in *Cognitive
Science* <http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cogs.12138/abstract>."

Read more at
http://www.iflscience.com/brain/religious-children-struggle-separate-fact-fiction#saBtcrJOemkjj1hh.99

Beth Benoit
Plymouth State University
Plymouth, New Hampshire

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