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June 3, 2019: New RA, Maryan, joins our team!
Maryan will be graduating from UTM in November 2019. She also works in Dr. Holmes's Social Neuroscience Lab studying a uniquely social...


June 2, 2019: YMCA Healthy Kids Day
Samantha, along with research assistants from the C.L.A.S.S. Lab on campus, ran a booth at the YMCA Healthy Kids Day event. They did face...


May 6, 2019: New Lab Coordinator, Samantha, joins our team!
Samantha previously worked in Dr. Trehub's Music Lab on campus studying the effect of music on infants. She is very excited to recruit...


May 1, 2019: Lab Renovations are Done!
Our lab is open now! This link shows our labs' renovations.


May 1, 2019: SSHRC Grant Received.
We're very excited to report that we received funding from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) for a...


March 25th, 2019: Renovations have begun!
The renovation of the lab is under way. Walls are coming down!


March 21-23, 2019: SRCD
Dr. Ronfard gave 2 talks during SRCD. (1) Explanatory Capacities in Early Elementary School: Can Children Learn the Counterintuitive...


March 6th, 2019: Visit to the University of Waterloo
Dr. Ronfard gave a talk at the University of Waterloo as part of the Developmental Science Brown Bag series.


01/01/2019: The ChiLD Lab opens its doors!
We're excited to join the UTM community! The Childhood Learning & Development (ChiLD) Lab conducts cognitive developmental research. We...


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...


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....
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