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The Development and Diversity of Cumulative Cultural Learning (PDF)

Legare, C. H., & Baniahmadi, M. (In Press). The Development and Diversity of Cumulative Cultural Learning. Human Development special issue: Beyond Dualism: Embodiment and Development.

From counsel to consumption: Examining sociocultural influences on perinatal nutrition in rural India. (PDF)

Hashmi, F., & Legare, C.H. (2025). From counsel to consumption: Examining sociocultural influences on perinatal nutrition in rural India. Frontiers in Nutrition, 12:1645528. https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/nutrition/articles/10.3389/fnut.2025.1645528/full

Community health workers’ counseling is based on a deficit model of behavior change. (PDF)

Goldwater, M., Hashmi, F., Mondal, S., & Legare, C.H. (2025). Community health workers’ counseling is based on a deficit model of behavior change. PLOS Global Public Health. 5(7), e0004167. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0004167

Lived experiences in action: Relations between community health workers’ and clients’ perinatal health behaviours in India. (PDF)

Hashmi, F., Burger, O., Mondal, S., & Legare, C.H. (2025). Lived experiences in action: Relations between community health workers’ and clients’ perinatal health behaviours in India. Global Public Health, 20(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/17441692.2025.2537697

Learning to control through culture: Explaining variation in the development of self-regulation (PDF)

Messer, E.J., Roome, H., & Legare, C.H. (2025). Learning to control through culture: Explaining variation in the development of self-regulation. Psychological Review, 132(4), 956–972. DoiAPA PsycNet

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.

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