Dynamics of Contraceptive Methods Used Among Indian Women of Reproductive Age: Evidence from National Family Health Survey 4 and 5 (PDF)

Singh, S. K., Sharma, H., Legare, C. H., & Mondal, S. (2023) Dynamics of Contraceptive Methods Used Among Indian Women of Reproductive Age: Evidence from National Family Health Survey 4 and 5. http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4578189.

Sector: Public Health, Year: 2023Aditi SubbaFebruary 16, 2026

Latent Profile Analyses of Explanations about the Origin of SARS-CoV-2 Within and Across Countries. (PDF)

Peregrino, J. D., Kertesz, A. F., Lunkenheimer, H. G., Erut, A., Etz, A., Burger, O., Fong, F. T. K., Babaeva, N., Eder, S. J., Falade, B., Hashmi, F., Peñaloza, G., Kavanagh, C., Rawilings, B. S., Silva, H. M., Suzuki, Y., Goldwater, M. B., & Legare, C. H. (2026). Latent Profile Analyses of Explanations about the Origins of SARS-CoV-2 within and acros Countries. Collabra: Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.155621

Sector: Cognitive Science, Sector: Education, Year: In PressMona BaniahmadiJanuary 27, 2026

Coexisting traditional and biomedical healthcare systems: a mixed-methods analysis of community health workers and traditional birth attendants’ contributions to perinatal health behaviors. (PDF)

Hashmi, F. A, Burger, O, & Legare, C.H. (2025). Coexisting traditional and biomedical healthcare systems: a mixed-methods analysis of community health workers and traditional birth attendants’ contributions to perinatal health behaviors in rural India. Front. Health Serv. 5:1623426. doi: 10.3389/frhs.2025.1623426

The Development and Diversity of Cumulative Cultural Learning (PDF)

Legare, C.H. & Baniahmadi, M. (2025). The development of cumulative cultural learning in context. Human Development,69(3-4), 271–281. doi.org/10.1159/000549564

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.

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

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.

Sector: Education, Year: 2024Zachary TaylorMarch 7, 2024Culture of Schooling

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

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

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.

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