Projektdatenbank (ab 2004)

Projektnummer

0066622

Zusammenfassung

At this time of deep environmental crisis, it is urgent to rethink ourrelationship with nature. We know from a large body of anthropologicaland psychological research that people across the world hold verydifferent understandings of natural entities. Such differentunderstandings have important ethical implications: whether weconsider a plant as a sentient being or not, for instance, shapes theway we morally relate to it. What we do not know however is how suchdifferent experiences and understandings emerge during childhood. Thisproject is the first large-scale comparative study to examine hows...