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

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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

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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

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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. (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.

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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

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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

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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.

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Contributions of causal reasoning to early scientific literacy (PDF)

Shavlik, M., Köksal-Tuncer, O., French, B., Haden, C., Legare, C.H., & Booth. A. (2022). Contributions of causal reasoning to early scientific literacy. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 24, 105509. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2022.105509

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

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Facilitating behavioral change: A comparative assessment of ASHA efficacy in rural Bihar (PDF)

Burger, O., Akhauri, S., Chaudhuri, I., Dańko, M.J., Hashmi, F., Johnson, T., Little, E.E., Lunkenheimer, H.G., Mondal, S., Mor, N., Saldanha, N., Schooley, J., Singh, P., & Legare, C.H. (2022). Facilitating behavioral change: A comparative assessment of ASHA efficacy in rural Bihar. PLOS Global Public Health, 2(8):e0000756. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0000756

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