Competing Explanations of Competing Explanations: Accounting for Conflict Between Scientific and Folk Explanations (PDF)

A. Shtulman and C.H. Legare (2020). Topics in Cognitive Science, 12(4), 1337-1362. DOI: 10.1111/tops.12483.

Sector: Cognitive Science, Year: 2020ScienceSitesJune 25, 2021Explaining Exploring and Scientific Reasoning in Museum Settings

Ritual Explained: Interdisciplinary Answers to Tinbergen’s Four Questions (PDF)

C.H. Legare and M. Nielsen (2020). Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 375: 20190419. DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2019.0419
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Year: 2020, Sector: Cognitive ScienceScienceSitesJune 23, 2021The Impact of Ritual on Healthcare Provider Behavior in Bihar India

Perinatal Risk and the Cultural Ecology of Health in Bihar, India (PDF)

C.H. Legare, S. Akhauri, I. Chaudhuri, F. Hashmi, T. Johnson, E.E. Little, H.G. Lunkenheimer, A. Mandelbaum, H. Mandlik, S. Mondal, N. Mor, N. Saldanha, J. Schooley, P. Sharda, S. Subbiah, S. Swarup, M. Tikkanen, and O. Burger (2020). Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 375: 20190433. DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2019.0433.

Year: 2020, Sector: Cognitive Science, Sector: Public HealthScienceSitesJune 23, 2021The Impact of Ritual on Healthcare Provider Behavior in Bihar India

Watch Me, Watch You: Ritual Participation Increases In-Group Displays and Out-Group Monitoring in Children (PDF)

N.J. Wen, A.K. Willard, M. Caughy, and C.H.Legare (2020). Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 375: 20190437. DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2019.0437.

Year: 2020, Sector: Child Development, Sector: Cognitive ScienceScienceSitesJune 23, 2021Ritual Community and Conflict

Using Data to Solve Problems: Children Reason Flexibly in Response to Different Kinds of Evidence (PDF)

J.T.A Busch and C.H. Legare (2019). Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 183, 172-188.

Year: 2019, Sector: Child Development, Sector: Cognitive Science, Sector: EducationScienceSitesJune 23, 2021The Development of Teaching and Social Learning Across Cultures

The Social Functions of Shamanism (PDF)

R.E. Watson-Jones and C.H. Legare (2018). Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 41, E88. DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X17002199

Year: 2018, Sector: Cognitive ScienceScienceSitesJune 23, 2021The Coexistence of Scientific and Religious Explanations Across Cultures and Development

Cultural Variation in Cognitive Flexibility Reveals Diversity in the Development of Executive Functions (PDF)

C.H. Legare, S. Kim, M. Dale, and G. Deák (2018). Nature Scientific Reports, 8,16326. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-34756-2

Year: 2018, Sector: Child Development, Sector: Cognitive ScienceScienceSitesJune 23, 2021The Development of Teaching and Social Learning Across Cultures

Evidence From Hunter-Gatherer and Subsistence Agricultural Populations for the Universality of Contagion Sensitivity (PDF)

C. Apicella, P. Rozin, J.T.A. Busch, R.E. Watson-Jones, and C.H. Legare (2018). Evolution and Human Behavior, 39(3), 355-363. DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2018.03.003

Year: 2018, Sector: Cognitive ScienceScienceSitesJune 23, 2021Ritual Community and Conflict, The Coexistence of Scientific and Religious Explanations Across Cultures and Development

Cross-Cultural Variation in the Development of Folk Ecological Reasoning (PDF)

J.T.A. Busch, R.E. Watson-Jones, and C.H. Legare (2018). Evolution and Human Behavior, 39(3), 310-319. DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2018.02.004

Year: 2018, Sector: Child Development, Sector: Cognitive ScienceScienceSitesJune 23, 2021The Coexistence of Scientific and Religious Explanations Across Cultures and Development

Evolutionary Developmental Psychology: 2017 Redux (PDF)

C.H. Legare, J.M. Clegg, and N.J. Wen (2018). Child Development, 89(6), 2282-2287. DOI: 10.1111/cdev.13021

Year: 2018, Sector: Child Development, Sector: Cognitive ScienceScienceSitesJune 23, 2021The Development of Teaching and Social Learning Across Cultures

Cumulative Cultural Learning: Diversity and Development (PDF)

C.H. Legare (2017). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(30), 7877-7883.

Year: 2017, Sector: Child Development, Sector: Cognitive ScienceScienceSitesJune 21, 2021

Explanatory Pluralism Across Cultures and Development (book chapter) [PDF]

C.H. Legare and A. Shtulman (2017). In J. Proust and M. Fortier (Eds.), Metacognitive Diversity. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Year: 2017, Sector: Child Development, Sector: Cognitive ScienceScienceSitesJune 21, 2021

Is Non-Conformity WEIRD? Cultural Variation in Adult’s Beliefs About Children’s Competency and Conformity (PDF)

J.M. Clegg, N.J. Wen, and C.H. Legare (2017). Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 146(3), 428-441.

Year: 2017, Sector: Child Development, Sector: Cognitive ScienceScienceSitesJune 21, 2021Ritual Community and Conflict

Does the Body Survive Death? Cultural Variation in Beliefs About Life Everlasting (PDF)

R.E. Watson-Jones, J.T.A. Busch, P.L. Harris, and C.H. Legare (2017). Cognitive Science, 41, 455–476.

Year: 2017, Sector: Cognitive ScienceScienceSitesJune 21, 2021The Coexistence of Scientific and Religious Explanations Across Cultures and Development

The Coexistence of Natural and Supernatural Explanations Within and Across Domains and Development (PDF)

J.T.A. Busch, R.E. Watson-Jones, and C.H. Legare. (2016). British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 35, 4-20. DOI: 10.1111/bjdp.12164.

Sector: Cognitive Science, Year: 2016ScienceSitesJune 21, 2021The Coexistence of Scientific and Religious Explanations Across Cultures and Development

Ritual (PDF)

C.H. Legare, N.J. Wen, and R.E. Watson-Jones (2016). In M.H. Bornstein (Ed.), The SAGE Encyclopedia of Lifespan Human Development. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications.

Year: 2016, Sector: Cognitive ScienceScienceSitesJune 21, 2021

Ritual Wellbeing: A Simplified Model (PDF)

A.K. Willard and C.H. Legare (2016). Religion, Brain & Behavior, 7:3, 262-265. 1-4. DOI: 10.1080/2153599X.2016.1156563

Year: 2016, Sector: Cognitive ScienceScienceSitesJune 21, 2021

Young Children Revise Explanations in Response to New Evidence (PDF)

C.H. Legare, C. Schult, M. Impola, and A.L. Souza (2016). Cognitive Development, 39, 45-56. DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2016.03.003

Year: 2016, Sector: Child Development, Sector: Cognitive ScienceScienceSitesJune 21, 2021

The Functions of Ritual in Social Groups (PDF)

R.E. Watson-Jones and C.H. Legare (2016). The Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 39, e26. DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X15000564