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. (2024). 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.

Sector: Child Development, Sector: Education, Sector: Cognitive Science, Year: In PressGuest UserSeptember 20, 2024

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

Sector: Child Development, Sector: Education, Sector: Cognitive Science, Year: 2024Guest UserSeptember 12, 2024

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

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

Satisfying existential and epistemic needs: Representational pluralism among scientific domains. (PDF)

Peregrino, J. D., & Legare C. H. (2022). Satisfying existential and epistemic needs: Representational pluralism among scientific domains. In M. Bélanger, S. Horst, E. Mortimer, P. Potvin, A. Shtulman (Eds.), Representational pluralism: Perspectives from science education, psychology, philosophy, and the cognitive sciences. Routledge.

Revisiting an extant framework: Concerns about culture and task generalization (PDF)

Fong, F., Nielsen, M., & Legare, C. (2022). Revisiting an extant framework: Concerns about culture and task generalization. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 45, E257. doi:10.1017/S0140525X22001200

Cognitive flexibility supports the development of cumulative cultural learning in children (PDF)

Davis, S.*, Rawlings, B.*, Clegg, J.M., Ikejimba, D., Watson-Jones, R.E., Whiten, A., & Legare, C.H. (2022). Cognitive flexibility supports the development of cumulative cultural learning in children. Nature Scientific Reports, 12, 14073. *Joint first authors. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-18231-7

Still face redux: Infant responses to a classic and modified still-face paradigm in proximal and distal care cultures (PDF)

Broesch, T., Little, E.E., Carver, L.J., & Legare, C.H. (2022). Still face redux: Infant responses to a classic and modified still-face paradigm in proximal and distal care cultures. Infant Behavior and Development, 68, 101732. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2022.101732

Developing Cross-Cultural Data Infrastructures (CCDIs) for research in cognitive and behavioral sciences (PDF)

Burger, O., Chen, L., Erut, A., Fong, F., Rawlings, B., & Legare, C.H. (2022). Developing Cross-Cultural Data Infrastructures (CCDIs) for research in cognitive and behavioral sciences. Review of Philosophy and Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13164-022-00635-z

Examining Relations Between Performance on Non-verbal Executive Function and Verbal Self-regulation Tasks in Demographically-diverse Populations (PDF)

Dutra, N. B., Chen, L., Anum, A., Burger, O., Davis, H. E., Dzokoto, V. A., ... & Legare, C. H. (2022). Examining relations between performance on non‐verbal executive function and verbal self‐regulation tasks in demographically‐diverse populations. Developmental science, 25(5), e13228.

Sensing the Presence of Gods and Spirits Across Cultures and Faiths (PDF)

T.M. Luhrmann, K. Weisman, F. Aulino, J.D. Brahinsky, J.C. Dulin, V.A. Dzokoto, C.H. Legare, M. Lifshitz, E. Ng, N. Ross-Zehnder, & R.E. Smith (2021). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 118(5), e2016649118.

Sector: Cognitive Science, Year: 2021ScienceSitesNovember 30, 2021The Mind and Spirit Project

Reply to Terhune et al.: [The Nature of Absorption] (PDF)

T.M. Luhrmann, K. Weisman, F. Aulino, J.D. Brahinsky, J.C. Dulin, V.A. Dzokoto, C.H. Legare, M. Lifshitz, E. Ng, N. Ross-Zehnder, & R.E. Smith (2021). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 118(5), e2016649118.

Sector: Cognitive Science, Year: 2021ScienceSitesNovember 30, 2021The Mind and Spirit Project

Similarities and Differences in Concepts of Mental Life Among Adults and Children in Five Cultures (PDF)

K. Weisman, C.H. Legare, R. Smith, V. Dzokoto, F. Aulino, E. Ng, J. Dulin, N. Ross-Zehnder, J.D. Brahinsky, & T. Luhrmann (2021). Nature Human Behavior, 5, 1358-1368. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-021-01184-8

Sector: Cognitive Science, Year: 2021ScienceSitesNovember 30, 2021The Mind and Spirit Project

Levelling the Playing Field in Cumulative Cultural Evolution: Conceptual and Methodological Advances in Nonhuman Animal Research (PDF)

B. Rawlings, C.H. Legare, S.F. Brosnan, & G.L. Vale (2021). Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning & Cognition, 47(3), 252-273. DOI: 10.1037/xan0000303

Cultural Variation in the Development of Beliefs About Conservation (PDF)

J.T.A. Busch, R.E. Watson-Jones, and C.H. Legare (2020). Cognitive Science, 44 (10), e12909..

The Social Side of Innovation (PDF)

B. Rawlings and C.H. Legare (2020). Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 43, E175. DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X20000217.

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