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

Messer, E. J. E., Roome, H. E., & Legare, C. H. (2025). Learning to control through culture: Explaining variation in the development of self-regulation. Psychological Review, 132(4), 956–972. https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000554

Sector: Child Development, Year: 2025, Sector: Cognitive ScienceMona BaniahmadiJune 12, 2025

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.

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

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

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

Leverage the power of ritual to improve community health worker efficacy and public health outcomes: Lessons from Bihar, India (PDF)

Legare, C., Burger, O., Johnson, T., Mor, N., & Saldanha, N. (2022). The Lancet Regional Health-Southeast Asia 1(10006). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lansea.2022.04.002

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.

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