Why children love their security blankets
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Poster of Laurel's missing Mouse. Photo by Bruce Hood
Every parent of a young child knows how emotionally attached children can become to a soft toy or blanket that they sleep with every night. New research, published today in the international journal
Cognition, suggests that this might be because children think the toy or blanket has a unique property or ‘essence’.
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