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De la Viña, L., Goulding, B. W., & Ronfard, S. (2024)
Children’s and adults’ beliefs about the impact of emotional intensity on cognitive performance. Developmental Psychology. Advance online...
Hermansen, T. K., Viana, K. M. P., Harris, P. L., Engel, S., Zambrana, I. M., & Ronfard, S. (2024)
Checking out the unexplained: With age, children become increasingly skeptical of surprising claims. Developmental Psychology . Advance...
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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