Abstract Why did some American Protestant denominations experience slavery-related schism during the nineteenth century, while others appear to have been unaffected by slavery conflict? I conduct a comparative case study of four national and find that was not consequence particular theological orientation, but instead occurred when denominational leaders lacked capacity repress abolitionism. In...


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Recent accounts of the emergence of joint attention implicate cognitive mechanisms that are not justified by empirical data. The schism between theory and evidence bespeaks a reliance on outmoded cognitive frameworks. Recent research on infant joint attention skills is reviewed, with the goal of a viable, parsimonious model of processes and variables that can explain the behavioral data. The im...