Today we began testing for our first online study! This study is conducted over Zoom and involves showing children pictures and asking...

Teaching natural selection in early elementary classrooms: Can a storybook intervention reduce teleological misunderstandings? Evolution:...

In our lab meeting this week, we discussed Shtulman and Carey's (2007) paper, "Improbable or Impossible? How Children Reason About the...

We're excited to announce that we have hired two Recruitment Coordinators, Fatima Tasabehji and Faris Khan! They will be leading all...

Due to the pandemic and taking safety precautions, we have closed our lab. Although we are sad we cannot meet in person, we are adjusting...

Preschoolers in Belarus and Turkey accept an adult’s counterintuitive claim and do not spontaneously seek evidence to test that claim....

The Questioning Child: A Path Forward. In Butler, L. P., Ronfard, S., & Corriveau, K. H. (Eds.). The Questioning Child: Insights from...

We're very excited to report that we have received funding from the National Science Foundation: RAPID: Collaborative Research, National...

We're excited to announce that we have received funding from Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) for a...

Dr. Ronfard was a guest on View to the U's podcast. He discussed how children come to learn about invisible entities like viruses, and...

"One of the most powerful things about having someone contradict you is that you can then have a conversation about your respective...

One of our awesome research assistants, Aimee Padillo, won first place at the Young Entrepreneurs' Conference 2020. The goal was to use...

To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Dr. Ronfard was invited to give a talk based on his...

One of our fantastic weekend experimenters, Paolina Onorato, recently won the I.M. Spigel Memorial Scholarship in Psychology for the...

In our lab meeting this week we discussed Shtulman's (2013) paper, which compared undergraduate students' scientific and supernatural...