Rawlings, B., Vale, G. L., Legare, C., Monfils, M. H., Proctor, D. P., & Brosnan, S. F. (2026). Clever vermin? Collective intelligence in rats and roaches. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 381. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2024.0441
Read MoreEl Aissati, T., Goubraim, G., Erut, A., Servan-Schreiber, E., Tetteh, G., Legare, C., & O'Madagain, C. (2026). Locals know more than it seems: a new method for revealing collective understanding, tested in three African communities. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 381. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2024.0453.
Read MorePeregrino, 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
Read MoreHashmi, 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
Read MoreLegare, 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
Read MoreHashmi, 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
Read MoreGoldwater, 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
Read MoreHashmi, 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
Read MoreLegare, 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.
Read MoreStibbard-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
Read MoreErut, A., & Legare, C.H. (2024). Do the skies themselves send down showers? Current Anthropology, 65(2). https://doi.org/10.1086/729118
Read MoreHashmi, 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
Read MoreMcHugh, 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
Read MoreRawlings, 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.
Read MoreClegg, 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
Read MoreLegare, C.H. (2023). The cumulative quality of culture explains human uniqueness. Zygon. https://doi.org/10.1111/zygo.12904
Read MoreFong, 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
Read MoreDavis, 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
Read MoreBroesch, 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
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