Editing Supernatural (section)

==Cross cultural studies==
Anthropological studies across cultures indicate that people do not hold or use natural and supernatural explanations in a mutually exclusive or dichotomous fashion. Instead, the reconciliation of natural and supernatural explanations is normal and pervasive across cultures.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Legare |first1=Cristine H. |last2=Visala |first2=Aku |title=Between Religion and Science: Integrating Psychological and Philosophical Accounts of Explanatory Coexistence |journal=Human Development |date=2011 |volume=54 |issue=3 |pages=169–184 |doi=10.1159/000329135|s2cid=53668380 }}</ref> Cross cultural studies indicate that there is coexistence of natural and supernatural explanations in both adults and children for explaining numerous things about the world, such as illness, death, and origins.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Legare |first1=Cristine H. |last2=Evans |first2=E. Margaret |last3=Rosengren |first3=Karl S. |last4=Harris |first4=Paul L. |title=The Coexistence of Natural and Supernatural Explanations Across Cultures and Development: Coexistence of Natural and Supernatural Explanations |journal=Child Development |date=May 2012 |volume=83 |issue=3 |pages=779–793 |doi=10.1111/j.1467-8624.2012.01743.x|pmid=22417318 |hdl=2027.42/91141 |hdl-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Aizenkot |first1=Dana |title=Meaning-Making to Child Loss: The Coexistence of Natural and Supernatural Explanations of Death |journal=Journal of Constructivist Psychology |date=11 September 2020 |volume=35 |pages=318–343 |doi=10.1080/10720537.2020.1819491|s2cid=225231409 }}</ref> Context and cultural input play a large role in determining when and how individuals incorporate natural and supernatural explanations.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Busch |first1=Justin T. A. |last2=Watson-Jones |first2=Rachel E. |last3=Legare |first3=Cristine H. |title=The coexistence of natural and supernatural explanations within and across domains and development |journal=British Journal of Developmental Psychology |date=March 2017 |volume=35 |issue=1 |pages=4–20 |doi=10.1111/bjdp.12164|pmid=27785818 |s2cid=24196030 |pmc=10676005 }}</ref> The coexistence of natural and supernatural explanations in individuals may be the outcomes two distinct cognitive domains: one concerned with the physical-mechanical relations and another with social relations.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Whitehouse |first1=Harvey |title=The Coexistence Problem in Psychology, Anthropology, and Evolutionary Theory |journal=Human Development |date=2011 |volume=54 |issue=3 |pages=191–199 |doi=10.1159/000329149|s2cid=145622566 }}</ref> Studies on indigenous groups have allowed for insights on how such coexistence of explanations may function.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Watson-Jones |first1=Rachel E. |last2=Busch |first2=Justin T. A. |last3=Legare |first3=Cristine H. |title=Interdisciplinary and Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Explanatory Coexistence |journal=Topics in Cognitive Science |date=October 2015 |volume=7 |issue=4 |pages=611–623 |doi=10.1111/tops.12162|pmid=26350158 |doi-access=free }}</ref>