Media: Multimedia
Stories of impact: Creating a Culture of flourishing with Cristine legare
What is culture? How is culture transmitted? And what is unique about human culture, compared to our closest animal species relatives? This podcast episode, a conversation with Dr. Cristine Legare, a professor of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin whose research focuses on the foundations of cultural intelligence, answers all these questions.
The Culture of Schooling
This video from Templeton Religious Trust features the Culture of Schooling project and asks: what if we looked more closely at how children acquire values, norms, and beliefs about the world, and how the kinds of schools they attend affect this?
Understanding Children’s Executive Functions Across Diverse Cultural Settings
This webinar, featuring panel discussion with Cristine Legare, is the first in a series titled Creating Connections in Child Development - Linking Education and Executive Functions for 21st Century Skills in the Global South organized by Stephen Bayley of PEDAL at University of Cambridge.
Ritual for a Reason: New Habits in the Time of COVID-19
In a webinar presented by The Science & Entertainment Exchange of the National Academy of Sciences, Cristine explains why rituals work for us, what happens when we lose them, and how we’re creating new ones that may stand the test of time.
Thinkery Connect: A Museum-University-Community
Partnership Thinkery Connect is a museum-university-community research partnership between Thinkery-Austin Children’s Museum (PI Adrienne Barnett) and The Center for Applied Cognitive Science at The University of Texas at Austin Department of Psychology (PI Professor Cristine Legare).
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Foundations of Cultural Intelligence
In this “Stories of Impact” episode, hear the fascinating story about how humans acquire culture and intelligence—and the foundation necessary to promote it.
Rituals in the Era of COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has rapidly transformed some of our most common rituals. The reason these rituals have been rapidly modified and replaced with new ones is that they serve critical functions. We are ritualizing new ways to promote hygiene, to protect the health of ourselves and others, and to create new forms of social connection.
How Do Children Become Members of the Populations They Are Born Into
In this Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute (DISI) talk, Cristine describes the development and diversity of cumulative cultural learning.
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Child Development, Culture, and Scientific Reasoning
Cristine and Ricardo Lopes of The Dissenter talk about the foundations of culture and discuss how children acquire culture; core knowledge, and how it varies across societies; causal learning; imitation; and natural and supernatural explanatory frameworks.
Born to Be Cultured
Cristine talks with Kensy Cooperrider of Many Minds about cumulative culture, the human capacities for imitation and innovation, the power of ritual, human uniqueness, her work in Vanuatu, and problems facing psychology.
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Imitate This!
In this episode of Zombified, hosted by Athena Aktipis and Dave Lundberg-Kenrick, Cristine explains how imitation is at the heart of what makes us human and how our ability to imitate is both a great power and a serious vulnerability.
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Exploration, Explanation, and Parent-Child Interaction in Museums
Maureen Callanan, Cristine Legare, David Sobel, and colleagues investigated children’s developing causal thinking through family interaction at gear exhibits in three U.S. children’s museums.
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Making and Breaking Christmas Traditions
Jenni Murray of BBC Radio 4’s Woman's Hour talks to Cristine Legare about why rituals are an inevitable part of being human.
The Evolution and Ontogeny of Ritual
Invited keynote speaker at the Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion
University of Oxford
Oxford, UK
Shaping Intelligence: How Development, Culture, and Technology Transform Human Cognitive Capacities
Invited speaker at the Workshop on Evolutionary Theories of Culture
University of São Paulo, Institute of Advanced Studies, São Paulo, Brazil
Parents: Help Your Kids Learn Cause and Effect
News report from Child Trends on our National Science Foundation (NSF) funded research with Thinkery demonstrating that prompts to explore or explain uniquely influence parent and child behavior.
Explaining, Exploring, and Scientific Reasoning in Museums
Video summary of an NSF grant project that examines how parent-child interaction is related to children’s causal learning
2018 STEM for All Video Showcase
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Increasing Diversity in Developmental Science: A Roadmap for Best Practice in Cross-Cultural Research
Invited talk at the National Academy of Sciences Sackler Colloquium on Pressing Questions in the Study of Psychological and Behavioral Diversity
Beckman Center
Irvine, California
Part 1: Introduction
Part 2: Learning & Explanation
Part 3: Inconsistency, Explanation & Belief Revision
Part 4: Implications for Child Education
Cristine Legare on Socioeconomic Diversity & Teaching Controversial Topics
An interview with Heterodox Academy co-founder Chris Martin
0:00 — Why socioeconomic diversity is important
6:21 — How UT-Austin is increasing socioeconomic diversity
12:10 — SES diversity is intertwined with viewpoint diversity
15:05 — Cristine’s recent experience with controversial class topics
20:00 — Positive class evaluations
22:49 — Techniques to have productive conversations in class
26:30 — Illustrating unproductive forms of dialogue
The Ontogenetic Foundations of Cumulative Cultural Transmission
Invited talk at the National Academy of Sciences Sackler Colloquium on the Extension of Biology Through Culture
Beckman Center
Irvine, California
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Simpatia Funciona?
Research by Cristine Legare and Andre Souza on Brazilian simpatas and reasoning about ritual efficacy featured on Nerdologia, Brazil's top online science channel.
Interview with Cristine Legare on the Psychological Compatibility of Scientific and Religious Beliefs
Breaking New Ground in the Science and Religion Dialogue Conference
University of Texas, Austin
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Interview with Cristine Legare on How People Reconcile Religious and Scientific Explanations
Breaking New Ground in the Science and Religion Dialogue Conference
University of Texas, Austin
The Ontogeny of Cultural Learning
University of St. Andrews, School of Psychology & Neuroscience
St. Andrews, Scotland
Two Guys on Your Head
Cristine Legare interviewed on Art Markman's KUT radio show, to discuss research conducted at the Thinkery on the development of scientific thinking.
Segment begins at 32.50 and runs through 45.00
Podcasts from Cognitive Science and Religion Workshop
Center for Mind, Brain, and Culture, Emory University
Interview at the Laboratory for Experimental Research of Religion (LEVYNA)
Brno, Czech Republic
Intellectual Entrepreneurship Portrait - Cintia Hinojosa
and Jenn Clegg (Laboratory students)
The University of Texas at Austin