Why children love their security blankets

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Poster of Laurelacutes missing Mouse. Photo by Bruce Hood
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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