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Designing museum exhibits to support the development of scientific thinking in informal learning environments: A university-museum-community partnership (PDF)

Legare, C.H., Ooi, Y.J., Elsayed, Y., & Barnett, A. Designing museum exhibits to support scientific thinking in informal learning environments: A university-museum-community partnership. In C. Yu & J. Lockman (Eds). Advances in Child Development and Behavior (66). Elsevier Press.

Foreign-language effects in cross-cultural behavioral research: Evidence from the Tanzanian Hadza (PDF)

Stibbard-Hawkes, D., Abarbanell, L., Mabulla, I.A., Endeko, E., Legare, C.H., & Apicella, C. (2024). Foreign-language effects in cross-cultural behavioural research: Evidence from the Tanzanian Hadza, 3(6), 218. PNAS Nexus. https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae218

Do the skies themselves send down showers? (PDF)

Erut, A., & Legare, C.H. (2024). Do the skies themselves send down showers? Current Anthropology, 65(2). https://doi.org/10.1086/729118

Integrating Human-Centered Design and Social Science Research to Improve Service-Delivery and Empower Community Health Workers: Lessons from Project RISE (PDF)

Hashmi, F., Burger, O., Goldwater, M., Johnson, T., Mondal, S., Singh, P., & Legare, C.H. (2024). Integrating human-centered design and social science research to improve service-delivery and empower community health workers: Lessons from Project RISE. She Ji: The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation, 9(4), 489-517.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sheji.2024.02.001

Explaining and exploring the dynamics of parent–child interactionsand children's causal reasoning at a children's museum exhibit (PDF)

McHugh, S., Callanan, M., Jaeger, G., Legare, C.H., & Sobel, D. (2024). Explaining and exploring the dynamics of parent-child interactions and children’s causal reasoning at a children’s museum exhibit. Child Development. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.14035

Schools as cultural reproduction devices (PDF)

Fong, F.T.K., Erut, A., & Legare, C.H. (2024). Schools as Cultural Reproduction Devices. In J.J. Tehrani, J. Kendal, and R. Kendal (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Evolution (online edn). Oxford Academic. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198869252.013.75.

Teaching Controversial Topics Such as Evolutionary Theory: Tips and Tools (PDF)

Legare, C.H. & Buss, D.M. (2023). Teaching controversial topics such as evolutionary theory: Tips and tools. In J. Stoner, P. Carrese, & C. McNamara (Eds.) Free speech and intellectual diversity in higher education (pp. 197-202). Lexington Books.  

Quantifying quality: The impact of measures of school quality on children’s academic achievement across diverse societies (PDF)

Rawlings, B.*, Davis, H. E.*, Anum, A., Burger, O., Chen, L., Morales, J. C. C., Dutra, N., Dzabatou, A., Dzokoto, V., Erut, A., Fong, F. T. K., Ghelardi, S., Goldwater, M., Ingram, G., Messer, E., Kingsford, J., Lew-Levy, S., Mendez, K., Newhouse, M., … Legare, C. H. (2023). Quantifying quality: The impact of measures of school quality on children's academic achievement across diverse societies. Developmental Science, 00, e13434. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13434. *Joint first authors.

Cooperative signaling in the sandbox: Future directions for examining collective ritual in child development (PDF)

Clegg, J., Wen, N., & Legare, C.H. (2023). Cooperative signaling in the sandbox: Future directions for examining collective ritual in child development. Religion, Brain, & Behavior. https://doi.org/10.1080/2153599X.2023.2214398

The cumulative quality of culture explains human uniqueness (PDF)

Legare, C.H. (2023). The cumulative quality of culture explains human uniqueness. Zygon. https://doi.org/10.1111/zygo.12904