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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Main Author: Irvine, Judith T. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage 1978
In: Journal of cross-cultural psychology
Year: 1978, Volume: 9, Issue: 3, Pages: 300-310
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