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Corriveau, K.H., Ronfard, S., & Cui, Y.K. (2017).
Cognitive mechanisms associated with children's selective teaching. Review of Philosophy and Psychology. Advance online publication....


Ronfard, S., & Lane, J. D. (2017).
Preschoolers continually adjust their epistemic trust based on an informant’s ongoing accuracy. Child Development. Advance online...


Lane, J. D., Ronfard, S., & El-Sherif, D. (2017).
The influence of first-hand-testimony and hearsay on children’s belief in the improbable. Child Development. Advance online publication....


Burdett, E., Dean, L.G., Ronfard, S. (2017).
A diverse and flexible teaching toolkit facilitates the human capacity for cumulative culture. Review of Philosophy and Psychology....


Ronfard, S., & Harris, P.L. (2017).
Children’s decision to transmit information is guided by their evaluation of the nature of that information. Review of Philosophy and...


Ronfard, S., Lane, J.D., Wang, M., & Harris, P.L. (2017).
The impact of counter-perceptual testimony on children's categorization after a delay. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. Advance...


Kory Westlund, J. M. ,Jeong, S., Park, H.W., Ronfard, S., Adhikari, A., Harris, P.L., DeSteno, D.,
& Breazeal, C. (2017). Flat versus expressive storytelling: young children’s learning and retention of a social robot’s narrative....


Ronfard, S., Bartz, D., Cheng, L., Chen, X., & Harris, P.L. (2017).
Children’s developing ideas about knowledge and its acquisition. Advances in Child Development and Behavior. Advance online publication....


Harris, P.L., Ronfard, S., & Bartz, D. (2016).
Young children’s developing conception of knowledge and ignorance: Work in progress. European Journal of Developmental Psychology....


Ronfard, S., *Was, A. M., & Harris, P. L. (2016).
Children teach methods they could not discover for themselves. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 142, 107-117. doi:...


Bempechat, J., Li. J., & Ronfard, S. (2016).
Relations between cultural learning beliefs, self-regulated learning, and academic achievement for low-income Chinese American...


Ronfard, S., & Corriveau, K.H. (2016).
Teaching and preschooler’s ability to infer knowledge from mistakes. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 150, 87-98. doi:...


Lane, J. D., Ronfard, S., Francioli, S., & Harris, P.L. (2016).
Children’s imagination and belief: prone to flights of fancy or grounded in reality? Cognition, 152, 127-140. doi:...


Ronfard, S., & Harris, P. L. (2015).
The active role played by human learners is key to understanding the efficacy of teaching in humans. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 38,...


Ronfard, S., Elizabeth, T., & Bempechat, J. (2015).
Managing classroom discussions. In Scarlett G.W. (Ed.). The Sage Encyclopedia of Classroom Management (pp. 485-489). Thousand Oaks, CA:...


Corriveau, K.H., Kipling, R., Biarnes, M., Ronfard, S., & Harris, P.L. (2015).
The Living Laboratory Model: Bridging child development research and informal science education. In D. Sobel & J. Jipson (eds.) Relating...


Harris, P.L., de Rosnay, M., & Ronfard, S. (2014).
The mysterious emotional life of Little Red Riding Hood. In. K. H. Lagattuta (Ed.). New Insights into Developmental Affective Science...
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