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Cristine H. Legare publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Cristine H. Legare sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 111 publications — 27th percentile

27% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Cristine H. Legare D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Cristine H. Legare sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 47 D-Index — 47th percentile

47% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Overview

Cristine H. Legare is affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Social Sciences, with significant contributions to subfields including Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology, Education, Sociology and Political Science, and General Health Professions.

The core topics explored in their work include:

  • Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Cultural Differences and Values
  • Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Global Maternal and Child Health
  • Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
  • Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
  • Child Nutrition and Water Access

Legare has published extensively in several academic venues. The most frequent publication venues are:

  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Developmental Science
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Child Development
  • Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

The scientist's work often arises in collaboration with other researchers, including frequent co-authors such as Oskar Bürger, Sudipta Mondal, Bruce Rawlings, Faiz A. Hashmi, and Vivian Dzokoto.

Representative recent publications are:

  • "Exploration, Explanation, and Parent-Child Interaction in Museums" (2020), Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development
  • "Sensing the presence of gods and spirits across cultures and faiths" (2021), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Similarities and differences in concepts of mental life among adults and children in five cultures" (2021), Nature Human Behaviour
  • "Ritual explained: interdisciplinary answers to Tinbergen's four questions" (2020), Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • "Relations between parent-child interaction and children's engagement and learning at a museum exhibit about electric circuits" (2020), Developmental Science

Legare's research investigates themes such as the interaction between cultural context and psychological development, particularly focusing on childhood learning and parent-child dynamics. Their contributions intersect with understanding the role of ritual, cultural cognition, and educational environments in shaping developmental outcomes.

Best Publications

  • The persistent sampling bias in developmental psychology: A call to action

    Mark Nielsen;Mark Nielsen;Daniel Haun;Joscha Kärtner;Cristine H. Legare

  • Investigating the links between the subcomponents of executive function and academic achievement: a cross-cultural analysis of Chinese and American preschoolers.

    Xuezhao Lan;Cristine H. Legare;Claire Cameron Ponitz;Su Li

  • Imitation and Innovation: The Dual Engines of Cultural Learning

    Cristine H. Legare;Mark Nielsen;Mark Nielsen

  • The coexistence of natural and supernatural explanations across cultures and development.

    Cristine H. Legare;E. Margaret Evans;Karl S. Rosengren;Paul L. Harris

  • Bewitchment, Biology, or Both: The Co‐Existence of Natural and Supernatural Explanatory Frameworks Across Development

    Cristine H. Legare;Susan A. Gelman

  • Stick to the script: The effect of witnessing multiple actors on children’s imitation

    Patricia A. Herrmann;Cristine H. Legare;Paul L. Harris;Harvey Whitehouse

  • The Social Functions of Group Rituals

    Rachel E. Watson-Jones;Cristine H. Legare

  • Inconsistency With Prior Knowledge Triggers Children’s Causal Explanatory Reasoning

    Cristine H. Legare;Susan A. Gelman;Henry M. Wellman

  • Concepts and Folk Theories

    Susan A. Gelman;Cristine H. Legare

  • Exploring Explanation: Explaining Inconsistent Evidence Informs Exploratory, Hypothesis-Testing Behavior in Young Children

    Cristine H. Legare

  • Imitative flexibility and the development of cultural learning.

    Cristine H. Legare;Nicole J. Wen;Patricia A. Herrmann;Harvey Whitehouse

  • Evaluating ritual efficacy: evidence from the supernatural.

    Cristine H. Legare;André L. Souza

  • Task-specific effects of ostracism on imitative fidelity in early childhood☆

    Rachel E. Watson-Jones;Cristine H. Legare;Harvey Whitehouse;Jennifer M. Clegg

  • In-Group Ostracism Increases High-Fidelity Imitation in Early Childhood

    Rachel E. Watson-Jones;Harvey Whitehouse;Cristine H. Legare

  • Developmental changes in the coherence of essentialist beliefs about psychological characteristics.

    Susan A. Gelman;Gail D. Heyman;Cristine H. Legare

  • Selective effects of explanation on learning during early childhood.

    Cristine H. Legare;Tania Lombrozo

  • Cumulative cultural learning: Development and diversity.

    Cristine H Legare

  • Evidence for an explanation advantage in naïve biological reasoning

    Cristine H. Legare;Henry M. Wellman;Susan A. Gelman

  • Explain This, Explore That: A Study of Parent–Child Interaction in a Children's Museum

    Aiyana K. Willard;Justin T.A. Busch;Katherine A. Cullum;Susan M. Letourneau

  • The Ontogeny of Cultural Learning.

    Cristine H. Legare;Paul L. Harris

  • Explaining prompts children to privilege inductively rich properties.

    Caren M. Walker;Tania Lombrozo;Cristine H. Legare;Alison Gopnik

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark Nielsen
Mark Nielsen University of Queensland
Susan A. Gelman
Susan A. Gelman University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Harvey Whitehouse
Harvey Whitehouse University of Oxford
Tania Lombrozo
Tania Lombrozo Princeton University
David M. Sobel
David M. Sobel Brown University
Gail D. Heyman
Gail D. Heyman University of California, San Diego
Paul L. Harris
Paul L. Harris Harvard University
Maureen A. Callanan
Maureen A. Callanan University of California, Santa Cruz
Leslie J. Carver
Leslie J. Carver University of California, San Diego
Henry M. Wellman
Henry M. Wellman University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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