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.

Sector: Child Development, Sector: Cognitive Science, Sector: Education, Year: In PressMona BaniahmadiAugust 12, 2025

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

Sector: Child Development, Sector: Cognitive Science, Sector: Education, Year: 2025Mona BaniahmadiAugust 11, 2025The Impact of Ritual on Healthcare Provider Behavior in Bihar India

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

Sector: Education, Sector: Cognitive Science, Sector: Child Development, Year: 2025Mona BaniahmadiAugust 4, 2025The Impact of Ritual on Healthcare Provider Behavior in Bihar India

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

Sector: Child Development, Sector: Cognitive Science, Sector: Education, Year: 2025Mona BaniahmadiAugust 4, 2025The Impact of Ritual on Healthcare Provider Behavior in Bihar India

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

Sector: Child Development, Year: 2025, Sector: EducationMona BaniahmadiJune 12, 2025Culture of Schooling, The Development of Teaching and Social Learning Across Cultures

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

Sector: Child Development, Sector: Education, Sector: Cognitive Science, Year: 2024Zachary TaylorSeptember 12, 2024Thinkery Connect: A Museum-University-Community Research Partnership

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

Sector: Child Development, Sector: Education, Sector: Cognitive Science, Year: 2024Zachary TaylorSeptember 12, 2024The Impact of Ritual on Healthcare Provider Behavior in Bihar India

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

Sector: Child Development, Sector: Education, Sector: Cognitive Science, Year: 2023Zachary TaylorSeptember 12, 2024Thinkery Connect: A Museum-University-Community Research Partnership

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.

Sector: Education, Year: 2023Zachary TaylorAugust 3, 2023The Coexistence of Scientific and Religious Explanations Across Cultures and Development

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.

Sector: Education, Sector: Child Development, Sector: Cognitive Science, Year: 2022Zachary TaylorAugust 3, 2023Culture of Schooling, The Development of Teaching and Social Learning Across Cultures

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

Sector: Education, Sector: Child Development, Year: 2022Zachary TaylorJune 2, 2023Explaining Exploring and Scientific Reasoning in Museum Settings, Thinkery Connect: A Museum-University-Community Research Partnership

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.

Year: 2022, Sector: Education, Sector: Cognitive ScienceMona BaniahmadiMay 9, 2023Coexistence of Science and Religion

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

Sector: Education, Sector: Child Development, Sector: Cognitive Science, Year: 2022Guest UserApril 6, 2022Culture of Schooling, The Development of Teaching and Social Learning Across Cultures, Harnessing Global Science Networks to Accelerate Cultures of Learning

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.

Sector: Education, Sector: Child Development, Sector: Cognitive Science, Year: 2022Guest UserJanuary 3, 2022Culture of Schooling, The Development of Teaching and Social Learning Across Cultures

Relations Between Parent-Child Interaction and Children’s Engagement and Learning at a Museum Exhibit About Electric Circuits (PDF)

D.M. Sobel, S. Letourneau, C.H. Legare, & M. Callanan (2021). Developmental Science, 24 (3), e13057.

Sector: Education, Sector: Child Development, Year: 2021ScienceSitesNovember 30, 2021Explaining Exploring and Scientific Reasoning in Museum Settings

Young Children’s Metacognitive Awareness of Confounded Evidence (PDF)

O. Köksal-Tuncer, B. Sodian, & C.H. Legare (2021). Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 205, 105080.

Sector: Child Development, Year: 2021, Sector: EducationScienceSitesNovember 30, 2021Explaining Exploring and Scientific Reasoning in Museum Settings

Toddlers, Tools, and Tech: The Cognitive Ontogenesis of Innovation (PDF)

B. Rawlings & C.H. Legare (2021). Trends in Cognitive Sciences (TICS), 25 (1), P81-92.