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2020
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Butler, L. P., Ronfard, S., & Corriveau, K. H. (Eds.). (2020). The Questioning Child: Insights from Psychology and Education. New York: Cambridge University Press. LINK
Ronfard, S., Butler, L. P., & Corriveau, K.H. (2020). The Questioning Child: A Path Forward. In Butler, L. P., Ronfard, S., & Corriveau, K. H. (Eds.). The Questioning Child: Insights from Psychology and Education (pp. 301-320). New York: Cambridge University Press. PDF
Brown, S., Ronfard, S., & Kelemen, D. (2020). Teaching natural selection in early elementary classrooms: Can a storybook intervention reduce teleological misunderstandings? Evolution: Education and Outreach. PDF
Burdett, E., & Ronfard, S. (2020). A cognitive developmental approach is essential to understanding Cumulative Technological Culture. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 43, 2020, e59. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X20000175 PDF
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. International Journal of Behavioral Development. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1177/0165025420905344 PDF Data
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 Child Psychology and Psychiatry. doi: 10.1111/jcpp.13182 PDF
*Denotes shared 1st authorship.
2019
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Ronfard, S., & Lane, J. D. (2019). Children's and adults’ epistemic trust in and impressions of inaccurate informants. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. doi: 10.1016/j.jecp.2019.104662. PDF Data
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 publication. doi: 10.1016/j.jecp.2019.05.006. PDF
2018
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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 online publication. doi: 10.1016/j.dr.2018.05.002 PDF
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 Psychology. doi: 10.1016/j.jecp.2018.07.017 Preprint Data
2017
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Ronfard, S., Chen, E. E., & Harris, P. L. (2017). The emergence of the empirical stance: Children’s testing of counter-intuitive claims. Developmental Psychology. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1037/dev0000455 PDF SOM (Coverage @ NPR)
Ronfard, S., Bartz, D., Cheng, L., Chen, X., & Harris, P.L. (2017). Children’s developing ideas about knowledge and its acquisition. Advances in Child Development and Behavior. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1016/bs.acdb.2017.10.005 PDF
Ronfard, S., Lane, J.D., *Wang, M., & Harris, P.L. (2017). The impact of counter-perceptual testimony on children's categorization after a delay. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1016/j.jecp.2017.06.006 PDF
Ronfard, S., & Harris, P.L. (2017). Children’s decision to transmit information is guided by their evaluation of the nature of that information. Review of Philosophy and Psychology. Advance online publication. doi:10.1007/s13164-017-0344-5 PDF
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. doi:10.1007/s13164-017-0343-6 PDF
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. Advance online publication. doi:10.1007/s13164-017-0345-4 PDF
Kory Westlund, J. M. ,Jeong, S., Park, H.W., Ronfard, S., Adhikari, A., Harris, P.L., DeSteno, D., & Breazeal, C. (2017). Flat versus expressive storytelling: young children’s learning and retention of a social robot’s narrative. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. Advance online publication. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2017.00295 PDF
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. doi: 10.1111/cdev.12815 PDF
Ronfard, S., & Lane, J. D. (2017). Preschoolers continually adjust their epistemic trust based on an informant’s ongoing accuracy. Child Development. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1111/cdev.12720 PDF
2016
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Bempechat, J., Li. J., & Ronfard, S. (2016). Relations between cultural learning beliefs, self-regulated learning, and academic achievement for low-income Chinese American adolescents. Child Development. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1111/cdev.12702 PDF
Ronfard, S., & Corriveau, K.H. (2016). Teaching and preschooler’s ability to infer knowledge from mistakes. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 150, 87-98. doi: 10.1016/j.jecp.2016.05.006 PDF
Harris, P.L., Ronfard, S., & Bartz, D. (2016). Young children’s developing conception of knowledge and ignorance: Work in progress. European Journal of Developmental Psychology. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/17405629.2016.1190267 PDF
Lane, J. D., Ronfard, S., Francioli, S., & Harris, P.L. (2016). Children’s imagination and belief: prone to flights of fancy or grounded in reality? Cognition, 152, 127-140. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2016.03.022 PDF
Ronfard, S., Was, A. M.*, & Harris, P. L. (2016). Children teach methods they could not discover for themselves. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 142, 107-117. doi: 10.1016/j.jecp.2015.09.032 [First authorship shared with Was, A. M.] PDF
*Denotes shared 1st authorship.
2015
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Ronfard, S., & Harris, P. L. (2015). The active role played by human learners is key to understanding the efficacy of teaching in humans. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 38, 43-44. doi:10.1017/S0140525X14000594, e61 PDF
Corriveau, K.H., Kipling, R., Biarnes, M., Ronfard, S., & Harris, P.L. (2015). The Living Laboratory Model: Bridging child development research and informal science education. In D. Sobel & J. Jipson (eds.) Relating Research and Practice: Cognitive Development in Museum Settings (pp. 65-83). Psychology Press: UK. LINK
Ronfard, S., Elizabeth, T., & Bempechat, J. (2015). Managing classroom discussions. In Scarlett G.W. (Ed.). The Sage Encyclopedia of Classroom Management (pp. 485-489). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications Inc. PDF
2014
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Ronfard, S., & Harris, P. L. (2014). When will Little Red Riding Hood become scared? Children's attribution of mental States to a story character. Developmental Psychology, 50, 283-292. doi: 10.1037/a0032970 PDF
Harris, P.L., de Rosnay, M., & Ronfard, S. (2014). The mysterious emotional life of Little Red Riding Hood. In. K. H. Lagattuta (Ed.). New Insights into Developmental Affective Science (pp. 106–118). Basel, Switzerland: Karger. doi: 10.1159/000354364 PDF
2013
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Bempechat, J., Ronfard, S., Mirny, A., Li, J., & Holloway, S.D. (2013). “I want teachers to be unbiased!”: The discourse of unfairness among Russian adolescents. Journal of Ethnographic and Qualitative Research, 7, 169-87 PDF