Cristine H. Legare, Ph.D. - Publications

Affiliations: 
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI 
Area:
conceptual development, language development

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2024 Legare CH, Ooi YJ, Elsayed Y, Barnett A. Designing museum exhibits to support the development of scientific thinking in informal learning environments: A university-museum-community partnership. Advances in Child Development and Behavior. 66: 169-195. PMID 39074921 DOI: 10.1016/bs.acdb.2024.06.001  0.304
2023 McHugh SR, Callanan M, Jaeger G, Legare CH, Sobel DM. Explaining and exploring the dynamics of parent-child interactions and children's causal reasoning at a children's museum exhibit. Child Development. PMID 38018654 DOI: 10.1111/cdev.14035  0.356
2022 Davis S, Rawlings B, Clegg JM, Ikejimba D, Watson-Jones RE, Whiten A, Legare CH. Cognitive flexibility supports the development of cumulative cultural learning in children. Scientific Reports. 12: 14073. PMID 35982124 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-18231-7  0.408
2022 Shavlik M, Köksal Ö, French BF, Haden CA, Legare CH, Booth AE. Contributions of causal reasoning to early scientific literacy. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 224: 105509. PMID 35850022 DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2022.105509  0.365
2021 Weisman K, Legare CH, Smith RE, Dzokoto VA, Aulino F, Ng E, Dulin JC, Ross-Zehnder N, Brahinsky JD, Luhrmann TM. Similarities and differences in concepts of mental life among adults and children in five cultures. Nature Human Behaviour. PMID 34446916 DOI: 10.1038/s41562-021-01184-8  0.375
2021 Köksal Ö, Sodian B, Legare CH. Young children's metacognitive awareness of confounded evidence. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 205: 105080. PMID 33482472 DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2020.105080  0.386
2020 Rawlings B, Legare CH. Toddlers, Tools, and Tech: The Cognitive Ontogenesis of Innovation. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. PMID 33223481 DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2020.10.006  0.318
2020 Sobel DM, Letourneau SM, Legare CH, Callanan M. Relations between parent-child interaction and children's engagement and learning at a museum exhibit about electric circuits. Developmental Science. e13057. PMID 33108708 DOI: 10.1111/desc.13057  0.308
2020 Clegg JM, Wen NJ, DeBaylo PH, Alcott A, Keltner EC, Legare CH. Teaching Through Collaboration: Flexibility and Diversity in Caregiver-Child Interaction Across Cultures. Child Development. PMID 32776521 DOI: 10.1111/Cdev.13443  0.41
2020 Rawlings B, Legare CH. The social side of innovation. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 43: e175. PMID 32772989 DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X20000217  0.318
2020 Wen NJ, Willard AK, Caughy M, Legare CH. Watch me, watch you: ritual participation increases in-group displays and out-group monitoring in children. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. 375: 20190437. PMID 32594874 DOI: 10.1098/Rstb.2019.0437  0.35
2020 Legare CH, Nielsen M. Ritual explained: interdisciplinary answers to Tinbergen's four questions. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. 375: 20190419. PMID 32594869 DOI: 10.1098/Rstb.2019.0419  0.409
2020 Callanan MA, Legare CH, Sobel DM, Jaeger GJ, Letourneau S, McHugh SR, Willard A, Brinkman A, Finiasz Z, Rubio E, Barnett A, Gose R, Martin JL, Meisner R, Watson J. Exploration, Explanation, and Parent-Child Interaction in Museums. Monographs of the Society For Research in Child Development. 85: 7-137. PMID 32175600 DOI: 10.1111/Mono.12412  0.462
2019 Legare CH. The Development of Cumulative Cultural Learning. Annual Review of Developmental Psychology. 1: 119-147. PMID 38250669 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-devpsych-121318-084848  0.345
2019 Legare CH. The Development of Cumulative Cultural Learning. Annual Review of Developmental Psychology. 1: 119-147. PMID 38250669 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-devpsych-121318-084848  0.345
2019 Shtulman A, Legare CH. Competing Explanations of Competing Explanations: Accounting for Conflict Between Scientific and Folk Explanations. Topics in Cognitive Science. PMID 31762226 DOI: 10.1111/Tops.12483  0.34
2019 Busch JTA, Legare CH. Using data to solve problems: Children reason flexibly in response to different kinds of evidence. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 183: 172-188. PMID 30875548 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jecp.2019.01.007  0.433
2019 Willard AK, Busch JTA, Cullum KA, Letourneau SM, Sobel DM, Callanan M, Legare CH. Explain This, Explore That: A Study of Parent-Child Interaction in a Children's Museum. Child Development. PMID 30866040 DOI: 10.1111/Cdev.13232  0.405
2018 Legare CH, Opfer JE, Busch JTA, Shtulman A. A field guide for teaching evolution in the social sciences. Evolution and Human Behavior : Official Journal of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society. 39: 257-268. PMID 38827656 DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2018.01.002  0.631
2018 Busch JTA, Watson-Jones RE, Legare CH. Cross-cultural variation in the development of folk ecological reasoning. Evolution and Human Behavior : Official Journal of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society. 39: 310-319. PMID 38283035 DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2018.02.004  0.404
2018 Watson-Jones RE, Legare CH. The social functions of shamanism. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 41: e88. PMID 31064460 DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X17002199  0.342
2018 Kapitány R, Davis JT, Legare C, Nielsen M. An experimental examination of object-directed ritualized action in children across two cultures. Plos One. 13: e0206884. PMID 30485288 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0206884  0.462
2018 Legare CH, Dale MT, Kim SY, Deák GO. Cultural variation in cognitive flexibility reveals diversity in the development of executive functions. Scientific Reports. 8: 16326. PMID 30397235 DOI: 10.1038/S41598-018-34756-2  0.722
2018 Legare CH, Clegg JM, Wen NJ. Evolutionary Developmental Psychology: 2017 Redux. Child Development. PMID 29336021 DOI: 10.1111/Cdev.13018  0.356
2018 Apicella CL, Rozin P, Busch JT, Watson-Jones RE, Legare CH. Evidence from hunter-gatherer and subsistence agricultural populations for the universality of contagion sensitivity Evolution and Human Behavior. 39: 355-363. DOI: 10.1016/J.Evolhumbehav.2018.03.003  0.358
2018 Busch JT, Watson-Jones RE, Legare CH. Cross-cultural variation in the development of folk ecological reasoning Evolution and Human Behavior. 39: 310-319. DOI: 10.1016/J.Evolhumbehav.2018.02.004  0.497
2018 Legare CH, Opfer JE, Busch JT, Shtulman A. A field guide for teaching evolution in the social sciences Evolution and Human Behavior. 39: 257-268. DOI: 10.1016/J.Evolhumbehav.2018.01.002  0.648
2017 Wen NJ, Clegg JM, Legare CH. Smart Conformists: Children and Adolescents Associate Conformity With Intelligence Across Cultures. Child Development. PMID 28836660 DOI: 10.1111/Cdev.12935  0.429
2017 Legare CH, Sobel DM, Callanan M. Causal learning is collaborative: Examining explanation and exploration in social contexts. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. PMID 28744768 DOI: 10.3758/S13423-017-1351-3  0.442
2017 Legare CH. Cumulative cultural learning: Development and diversity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. PMID 28739945 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1620743114  0.408
2017 Nielsen M, Haun D, Kärtner J, Legare CH. The persistent sampling bias in developmental psychology: A call to action. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 162: 31-38. PMID 28575664 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jecp.2017.04.017  0.349
2017 Clegg JM, Wen NJ, Legare CH. Is non-conformity WEIRD? Cultural variation in adults' beliefs about children's competency and conformity. Journal of Experimental Psychology. General. 146: 428-441. PMID 28253011 DOI: 10.1037/Xge0000275  0.423
2016 Watson-Jones RE, Busch JT, Harris PL, Legare CH. Does the Body Survive Death? Cultural Variation in Beliefs About Life Everlasting. Cognitive Science. PMID 27859566 DOI: 10.1111/Cogs.12430  0.416
2016 Busch JT, Watson-Jones RE, Legare CH. The coexistence of natural and supernatural explanations within and across domains and development. The British Journal of Developmental Psychology. PMID 27785818 DOI: 10.1111/Bjdp.12164  0.41
2016 Clegg JM, Legare CH. Parents scaffold flexible imitation during early childhood. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 153: 1-14. PMID 27676182 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jecp.2016.08.004  0.413
2016 Clegg JM, Legare CH. A cross-cultural comparison of children's imitative flexibility. Developmental Psychology. 52: 1435-44. PMID 27570982 DOI: 10.1037/Dev0000131  0.484
2016 Legare CH, Harris PL. The Ontogeny of Cultural Learning. Child Development. 87: 633-42. PMID 27189392 DOI: 10.1111/Cdev.12542  0.402
2016 Watson-Jones RE, Legare CH. The functions of ritual in social groups. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 39: e26. PMID 26948744 DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X15000564  0.316
2016 Watson-Jones RE, Legare CH. The Social Functions of Group Rituals Current Directions in Psychological Science. 25: 42-46. DOI: 10.1177/0963721415618486  0.358
2016 Wen NJ, Herrmann PA, Legare CH. Ritual increases children’s affiliation with in-group members Evolution and Human Behavior. 37: 54-60. DOI: 10.1016/J.Evolhumbehav.2015.08.002  0.36
2016 Legare CH, Schult CA, Impola M, Souza AL. Young children revise explanations in response to new evidence Cognitive Development. 39: 45-56. DOI: 10.1016/J.Cogdev.2016.03.003  0.469
2015 Clegg JM, Legare CH. Instrumental and Conventional Interpretations of Behavior Are Associated With Distinct Outcomes in Early Childhood. Child Development. PMID 26682522 DOI: 10.1111/Cdev.12472  0.455
2015 Watson-Jones RE, Whitehouse H, Legare CH. In-Group Ostracism Increases High-Fidelity Imitation in Early Childhood. Psychological Science. PMID 26573906 DOI: 10.1177/0956797615607205  0.392
2015 Legare CH, Nielsen M. Imitation and Innovation: The Dual Engines of Cultural Learning. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. PMID 26440121 DOI: 10.1016/J.Tics.2015.08.005  0.412
2015 Watson-Jones RE, Busch JT, Legare CH. Interdisciplinary and Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Explanatory Coexistence. Topics in Cognitive Science. PMID 26350158 DOI: 10.1111/Tops.12162  0.392
2015 Legare CH, Wen NJ, Herrmann PA, Whitehouse H. Imitative flexibility and the development of cultural learning. Cognition. 142: 351-61. PMID 26083314 DOI: 10.1016/J.Cognition.2015.05.020  0.377
2014 Sobel DM, Legare CH. Causal learning in children. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews. Cognitive Science. 5: 413-27. PMID 26308654 DOI: 10.1002/Wcs.1291  0.415
2014 Legare CH, Schepp B, Gelman SA. Examining explanatory biases in young children's biological reasoning. Journal of Cognition and Development : Official Journal of the Cognitive Development Society. 15: 284-303. PMID 25383046 DOI: 10.1080/15248372.2012.749480  0.582
2014 Walker CM, Lombrozo T, Legare CH, Gopnik A. Explaining prompts children to privilege inductively rich properties. Cognition. 133: 343-57. PMID 25128793 DOI: 10.1016/J.Cognition.2014.07.008  0.437
2014 Legare CH, Lombrozo T. Selective effects of explanation on learning during early childhood. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 126: 198-212. PMID 24945685 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jecp.2014.03.001  0.475
2014 Legare CH, Souza AL. Searching for control: priming randomness increases the evaluation of ritual efficacy. Cognitive Science. 38: 152-61. PMID 23941272 DOI: 10.1111/Cogs.12077  0.317
2014 Legare CH. The contributions of explanation and exploration to children's scientific reasoning Child Development Perspectives. 8: 101-106. DOI: 10.1111/Cdep.12070  0.483
2014 Watson-Jones RE, Legare CH, Whitehouse H, Clegg JM. Task-specific effects of ostracism on imitative fidelity in early childhood Evolution and Human Behavior. 35: 204-210. DOI: 10.1016/J.Evolhumbehav.2014.01.004  0.428
2013 Herrmann PA, Legare CH, Harris PL, Whitehouse H. Stick to the script: the effect of witnessing multiple actors on children's imitation. Cognition. 129: 536-43. PMID 24045001 DOI: 10.1016/J.Cognition.2013.08.010  0.406
2013 Legare CH, Mills CM, Souza AL, Plummer LE, Yasskin R. The use of questions as problem-solving strategies during early childhood. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 114: 63-76. PMID 23044374 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jecp.2012.07.002  0.347
2013 Legare CH, Lane JD, Evans EM. Anthropomorphizing science: How does it affect the development of evolutionary concepts? Merrill-Palmer Quarterly. 59: 168-197. DOI: 10.1353/Mpq.2013.0009  0.358
2013 Wellman HM, Zhu L, Legare CH. Examining biological explanations in chinese preschool children: A cross-cultural comparison Journal of Cognition and Culture. 13: 67-93. DOI: 10.1163/15685373-12342085  0.342
2012 Legare CH, Souza AL. Evaluating ritual efficacy: evidence from the supernatural. Cognition. 124: 1-15. PMID 22520061 DOI: 10.1016/J.Cognition.2012.03.004  0.336
2012 Legare CH, Evans EM, Rosengren KS, Harris PL. The coexistence of natural and supernatural explanations across cultures and development. Child Development. 83: 779-93. PMID 22417318 DOI: 10.1111/J.1467-8624.2012.01743.X  0.41
2012 Legare CH. Exploring explanation: explaining inconsistent evidence informs exploratory, hypothesis-testing behavior in young children. Child Development. 83: 173-85. PMID 22172010 DOI: 10.1111/J.1467-8624.2011.01691.X  0.48
2011 Gelman SA, Legare CH. Concepts and folk theories. Annual Review of Anthropology. 40: 379-398. PMID 23436950 DOI: 10.1146/Annurev-Anthro-081309-145822  0.549
2011 Lan X, Legare CH, Ponitz CC, Li S, Morrison FJ. Investigating the links between the subcomponents of executive function and academic achievement: a cross-cultural analysis of Chinese and American preschoolers. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 108: 677-92. PMID 21238977 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jecp.2010.11.001  0.369
2011 Souza AL, Legare CH. The role of testimony in the evaluation of religious expertise Religion, Brain & Behavior. 1: 146-153. DOI: 10.1080/2153599X.2011.598320  0.301
2010 Legare CH, Gelman SA, Wellman HM. Inconsistency with prior knowledge triggers children's causal explanatory reasoning. Child Development. 81: 929-44. PMID 20573114 DOI: 10.1111/J.1467-8624.2010.01443.X  0.61
2010 Mills CM, Legare CH, Bills M, Mejias C. Preschoolers use questions as a tool to acquire knowledge from different sources Journal of Cognition and Development. 11: 533-560. DOI: 10.1080/15248372.2010.516419  0.448
2009 Legare CH, Gelman SA. South African Children's Understanding of AIDS and Flu: Investigating Conceptual Understanding of Cause, Treatment, and Prevention. Journal of Cognition and Culture. 9: 333-346. PMID 20631923 DOI: 10.1163/156770909X12518536414457  0.606
2009 Legare CH, Wellman HM, Gelman SA. Evidence for an explanation advantage in naïve biological reasoning. Cognitive Psychology. 58: 177-94. PMID 18710700 DOI: 10.1016/J.Cogpsych.2008.06.002  0.598
2008 Legare CH, Gelman SA. Bewitchment, biology, or both: the co-existence of natural and supernatural explanatory frameworks across development. Cognitive Science. 32: 607-42. PMID 21635349 DOI: 10.1080/03640210802066766  0.544
2008 Giles JW, Legare C, Samson JE. Psychological essentialism and cultural variation: Children's beliefs about aggression in the United states and South Africa Infant and Child Development. 17: 137-150. DOI: 10.1002/Icd.537  0.482
2007 Gelman SA, Heyman GD, Legare CH. Developmental changes in the coherence of essentialist beliefs about psychological characteristics. Child Development. 78: 757-74. PMID 17517003 DOI: 10.1111/J.1467-8624.2007.01031.X  0.63
2005 Heyman GD, Legare CH. Children's evaluation of sources of information about traits. Developmental Psychology. 41: 636-47. PMID 16060810 DOI: 10.1037/0012-1649.41.4.636  0.402
2004 Heyman GD, Legare CH. Children's Beliefs About Gender Differences in the Academic and Social Domains Sex Roles. 50: 227-239. DOI: 10.1023/B:Sers.0000015554.12336.30  0.458
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