Frontiers | Prompting Children’s Belief Revision About Balance Through Primary and Secondary Sources of Evidence #### Human Developmental Psychology Published inFrontiers in Psychology 3.8 impact factor7 citescore Part of a Research TopicThe Emergence and Development of Scientific Thinking during the Early Years: Basic Processes and Supportive Contexts322k views22 articles ## ORIGINAL RESEARCH article Front. Psychol., 22 July 2020 Sec. Human Developmental Psychology Volume 11 - 2020 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01503 # Prompting Children’s Belief Revision About Balance Through Primary and Secondary Sources of Evidence - NENicole E. Larsen - VPVaunam P. Venkadasalam - PAPatricia A. Ganea * Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada Article metrics View details ## Abstract Prior evidence has shown that children’s understanding of balance proceeds through stages. Children go from a stage where they lack a consistent theory (No Theory), to becoming Center Theorists at around age 6 (believing that all objects balance in their geometric center), to Mass Theorists at around age 8, when they begin to consider the