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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....
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., 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., 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...
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