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Lane, J.D. & Ronfard, S. (2023).
Children’s Pursuit of Counterintuitive Information in Books. Journal of Cognition and Development, 24(5), 720–734. doi:...
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:...
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....
Brown, S., Ronfard, S., & Kelemen, D. (2020).
Teaching natural selection in early elementary classrooms: Can a storybook intervention reduce teleological misunderstandings? Evolution:...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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:...
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