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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.
Brown, S., Ronfard, S., & Kelemen, D. (2020).
Teaching natural selection in early elementary classrooms: Can a storybook intervention reduce teleological misunderstandings? Evolution:...
Ronfard, S., Ünlütabak, B., Bazhydai, M., Nicolopoulou, A., & Harris, P. L. (2020).
Preschoolers in Belarus and Turkey accept an adult’s counterintuitive claim and do not spontaneously seek evidence to test that claim....
Ronfard, S., Butler, L. P., & Corriveau, K.H. (2020).
The Questioning Child: A Path Forward. In Butler, L. P., Ronfard, S., & Corriveau, K. H. (Eds.). The Questioning Child: Insights from...
Wei, R., Ronfard, S., Leyva, D., & Rowe, M. L. (2019).
Teaching a novel word: Parenting styles and toddlers' word learning. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. Advance online...
Ronfard, S., & Lane, J. D. (2019).
Children's and adults’ epistemic trust in and impressions of inaccurate informants. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. Advance...
Ronfard, S., Zambrana, I. M., Hermansen, T.K., & Kelemen, D. (2018).
Question-asking in childhood: A review of the literature and a framework for understanding its development. Developmental Review. Advance...
Ronfard, S., Chen, E. E., & Harris, P. L. (2018).
The emergence of the empirical stance: Children's testing of counterintuitive claims. Developmental psychology. Click here to read the...
Ronfard, S., Nelson, L., Dunham, Y., & Blake, P. R. (2018).
How children use accuracy information to infer informant intentions and to make reward decisions. Journal of Experimental Child...
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