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Ransom, A., Ruggeri, A., & Ronfard, S. (2024)
When is it appropriate to ask a question? The role of age, social context, and personality. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology,...
Bhatti, D., Lane, J. D., & Ronfard, S. (2024)
Updating Trust: How children combine trait information with prior accuracy as they interact with an informant. Developmental Psychology....
Yang, Q. T., Sleight, S., Ronfard, S., & Harris, P. L. (2023).
Young children's conceptualization of empirical disagreements. Cognition, 241. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105627. Click here to read...
Goulding, B. W, Khan, F., Fukuda, K., Lane J. D. & Ronfard, S. (2023).
The Development of Modal Intuitions: A Test of Two Accounts. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 153(1), 184–199. doi:...
Lane, J.D. & Ronfard, S. (2023).
Children’s Pursuit of Counterintuitive Information in Books. Journal of Cognition and Development, 24(5), 720–734. doi:...
Ronfard, S., Brown, S. A., Pitt, E. & Kelemen, D. (2023).
Is book reading always best? Children learn and transfer complex scientific explanations from books or animations. Evolution: Education...
Pizza, L., Ronfard, S., Coley, J. D. & Kelemen, D. (2023).
Why we should care about moral foundations when preparing for the next pandemic: Insights from Canada, the UK, and the US. PLoS ONE,...
Schubert, T. (2023).
Tinkering with tools leads to more success. Nature Reviews Psychology. doi: 10.1038/s44159-023-00195-8 Click here to read the article
Burdett, E.R.R. & Ronfard, S. (2023).
Tinkering to Innovation: How Children Refine Tools Over Multiple Attempts. Developmental Psychology. doi: 10.1037/dev0001512 Click here...
Cottrell, S., Torres, E., Harris, P.L., & Ronfard, S. (2022).
Older children verify adult claims because they are skeptical of those claims. Child Development. doi: 10.1111/cdev.13847 Click here to...
Ronfard, S., Chen, E. E., & Harris, P. L. (2021).
Testing what you’re told: Young children’s empirical investigation of a surprising claim. Journal of Cognition and Development. doi:...
Hermansen, T. K., Ronfard, S., Harris, P. L., Pons, F., & Zambrana, I. M. (2021).
Young children update their trust in an informant’s claim when experience tells them otherwise. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology,...
Ronfard, S., Brown, S., Doncaster, E., & Kelemen, D. (2021).
Inhibiting intuition: Scaffolding children’s theory construction about species evolution in the face of competing explanations....
Ronfard, S., *Wei, R., & Rowe, M. (2021).
Exploring the Linguistic, Cognitive, and Social Skills Underlying Lexical Processing Efficiency as Measured by the...
Burdett, E. R. R., Ronfard, S. (2020).
A cognitive developmental approach is essential to understanding cumulative technological culture. The Behavioral and brain sciences....
Wagner, N.J., *Waller, R., Flom, M., Ronfard, S., Fenstermacher, S., & Saudino, K.J. (2020).
Less imitation of arbitrary actions is a specific developmental precursor to callous-unemotional traits in early childhood. Journal of...
Butler, L. P., Ronfard, S., & Corriveau, K. H. (Eds.). (2020).
The Questioning Child: Insights from Psychology and Education. New York: Cambridge University Press.
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