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St. Pierre, T., White, K.S., Johnson, E.K., and Ronfard, S. (2025).

Thomas St. Pierre, Katherine S. White, Elizabeth K. Johnson, Samuel Ronfard; The Quest for Truth: Experimenter Identity Impacts Children’s Response to Surprising Information. Open Mind 2025; 9 1363–1374. https://doi.org/10.1162/opmi.a.23 Click here to read the article

Ye, N. N., Cui, Y. K., Ronfard, S. & Corriveau, K. H. (2025)

Ye, N.N., Cui, Y.K., Ronfard, S., & Corriveau, K.H. (2025). The development of children’s teaching varies by cultural input: evidence...

Hermansen, T. K., Mathisen, K. F., & Ronfard, S. (2024)

When children can explain why they believe a claim, they suggest a better empirical test for that claim. R. Soc. Open Sci. 11: 241875....

De la Viña, L., Goulding, B. W., & Ronfard, S. (2024)

Children’s and adults’ beliefs about the impact of emotional intensity on cognitive performance. Developmental Psychology. Advance online...

Hermansen, T. K., Viana, K. M. P., Harris, P. L., Engel, S., Zambrana, I. M., & Ronfard, S. (2024)

Checking out the unexplained: With age, children become increasingly skeptical of surprising claims. Developmental Psychology . Advance...

Özkan, F. E., Ronfard, S., Aydın, Ç., & Köymen, B. (2024)

Turkish- and English-speaking 3-year-old children are sensitive to the evidential strength of claims when revising their beliefs. ...

Sacchi A., Sah J., Finlay M., & Starmans C. (2024)

Forever young: The end of history illusion in children. Cognition . doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2024.105867 Exciting news: Alexa Sacchi,...

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...