Prof. Paul Harris (Harvard Graduate School of Education) examines why children are skeptical about magical phenomena but are willing to believe in supposedly miraculous violations of everyday causal constraints. 12 May 2017.

Why do children doubt magic, but believe in the miraculous?

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The Oxford Anthropology Podcast brings together talks by internationally renowned scholars and cutting edge researchers. Their lectures explore a wide range of human experience and feature case studies from around the world. We are grateful to the speakers and staff and students from the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography who have made this podcast possible.

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