Cottrell, S., Torres, E., Harris, P.L., & Ronfard, S. (2022).
Older children verify adult claims because they are skeptical of those claims. Child Development. Click here to read the article
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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. Click...
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., *Wei, R., & Rowe, M. (2021).
Exploring the Linguistic, Cognitive, and Social Skills Underlying Lexical Processing Efficiency as Measured by the...
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....
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...
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....
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...
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....
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