About the Authors

Kara Weisman

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

kgweisman@gmail.com (KW); malikig@gmail.com (MEG); kcorriv@bu.edu (KHC); rebekah.richert@ucr.edu (RAR)

‡ KW and MEG are joint first authors on this work. KHC and RAR are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Psychology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

Maliki E. Ghossainy

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

kgweisman@gmail.com (KW); malikig@gmail.com (MEG); kcorriv@bu.edu (KHC); rebekah.richert@ucr.edu (RAR)

‡ KW and MEG are joint first authors on this work. KHC and RAR are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Wheelock College of Education & Human Development, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Allison J. Williams

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Wheelock College of Education & Human Development, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ayse Payir

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Wheelock College of Education & Human Development, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Kirsten A. Lesage

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Wheelock College of Education & Human Development, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Bolivar Reyes-Jaquez

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision

Current address: Department of Psychology, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Psychology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

Tamer G. Amin

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Education, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

Florencia K. Anggoro

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Psychology, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Emily R. R. Burdett

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Psychology, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Eva E. Chen

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation College of Education, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, R.O.C.

Lezanie Coetzee

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision

Affiliations Health Economics and Epidemiology Research Office (HE2RO), T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, School of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

John D. Coley

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Psychology, College of Science, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Audun Dahl

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Psychology, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America

Jocelyn B. Dautel

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Psychology, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom

Helen Elizabeth Davis

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision

Affiliations School of Human Evolution and Social Change and the Institute of Human Origins, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America, Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Elizabeth L. Davis

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Psychology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

Gil Diesendruck

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Psychology, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel

Denise Evans

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision

Affiliations Health Economics and Epidemiology Research Office (HE2RO), T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, School of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Aidan Feeney

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Psychology, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom

Michael Gurven

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Anthropology, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America

Benjamin D. Jee

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Psychology, Worcester State University, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Hannah J. Kramer

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Psychology, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom

Tamar Kushnir

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Natassa Kyriakopoulou

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Early Childhood Education, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

Katherine McAuliffe

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, United States of America

Abby McLaughlin

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, United States of America

Shaun Nichols

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision

Affiliation Sage School of Philosophy, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Ageliki Nicolopoulou

Roles Investigation, Project administration

Affiliation Department of Psychology, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Peter C. Rockers

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Global Health, School of Public Health, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Laura Shneidman

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Psychology, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Washington, United States of America

Irini Skopeliti

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Educational Science and Early Childhood Education, University of Patras, Patras, Greece

Mahesh Srinivasan

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Psychology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Amanda R. Tarullo

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Laura K. Taylor

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision

Affiliation School of Psychology, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland

Yue Yu

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision

Affiliation Centre for Research in Child Development, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore

Meltem Yucel

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Xin Zhao

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Educational Psychology, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China

Kathleen H. Corriveau

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

kgweisman@gmail.com (KW); malikig@gmail.com (MEG); kcorriv@bu.edu (KHC); rebekah.richert@ucr.edu (RAR)

‡ KW and MEG are joint first authors on this work. KHC and RAR are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Wheelock College of Education & Human Development, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Rebekah A. Richert

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

kgweisman@gmail.com (KW); malikig@gmail.com (MEG); kcorriv@bu.edu (KHC); rebekah.richert@ucr.edu (RAR)

‡ KW and MEG are joint first authors on this work. KHC and RAR are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Psychology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

on behalf of the Developing Belief Network

Members of the Developing Belief Network (Wave 1) are listed in the Acknowledgments section; more information about membership is provided in the OSF repository associated with this manuscript (direct link to membership information: https://osf.io/4gevr).

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.