Author

Samuel Ronfard

Observed names: Ronfard Samuel, Ronfard, Samuel, Samuel RONFARD, Samuel Ronfard, Tracy Elizabeth

Institution: University of Toronto

Observed institutions: Boston University, Harvard University, University of Toronto

ORCID: 0000-0001-5152-0514

Observed ORCID: 0000-0001-5152-0514

OpenAlex ID: A5048373903

Question-asking in childhood: A review of the literature and a framework for understanding its development

2018 · Samuel Ronfard, Imac M. Zambrana, et al. · Developmental Review · 159

Flat vs. Expressive Storytelling: Young Children’s Learning and Retention of a Social Robot’s Narrative

2017 · Jacqueline M. Kory Westlund, Sooyeon Jeong, et al. · Frontiers in Human Neuroscience · 134

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Children’s imagination and belief: Prone to flights of fancy or grounded in reality?

2016 · Jonathan D. Lane, Samuel Ronfard, et al. · Cognition · 67

Preschoolers Continually Adjust Their Epistemic Trust Based on an Informant's Ongoing Accuracy

2017 · Samuel Ronfard, Jonathan D Lane · Child Development · 63

Young children’s developing conception of knowledge and ignorance: work in progress

2016 · Paul L. Harris, Samuel Ronfard, et al. · European Journal of Developmental Psychology · 61

Teaching and preschoolers’ ability to infer knowledge from mistakes

2016 · Samuel Ronfard, Kathleen H. Corriveau · Journal of Experimental Child Psychology · 50

The emergence of the empirical stance: Children’s testing of counterintuitive claims.

2017 · Samuel Ronfard, Eva E. Chen, et al. · Developmental Psychology · 48

A Diverse and Flexible Teaching Toolkit Facilitates the Human Capacity for Cumulative Culture

2017 · Emily R. R. Burdett, Lewis G. Dean, et al. · Review of Philosophy and Psychology · 48

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Teaching natural selection in early elementary classrooms: can a storybook intervention reduce teleological misunderstandings?

2020 · Sarah A. Brown, Samuel Ronfard, et al. · Evolution Education and Outreach · 44

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Children teach methods they could not discover for themselves

2015 · Samuel Ronfard, Alexandra M. Was, et al. · Journal of Experimental Child Psychology · 43

When will Little Red Riding Hood become scared? Children’s attribution of mental states to a story character.

2013 · Samuel Ronfard, Paul L. Harris · Developmental Psychology · 42

Testing What You’re Told: Young Children’s Empirical Investigation of a Surprising Claim

2021 · Samuel Ronfard, Eva E. Chen, et al. · Journal of Cognition and Development · 40

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Inhibiting intuition: Scaffolding children's theory construction about species evolution in the face of competing explanations

2021 · Samuel Ronfard, Sarah Brown, et al. · Cognition · 40

Cognitive Mechanisms Associated with Children’s Selective Teaching

2017 · Kathleen H. Corriveau, Samuel Ronfard, et al. · Review of Philosophy and Psychology · 40

The Mysterious Emotional Life of Little Red Riding Hood

2013 · Paul L. Harris, Marc de Rosnay, et al. · Contributions to human development · 40

The Questioning Child: Insights from Psychology and Education.

2020 · Lucas P. Butler, Samuel Ronfard, et al. · 31

The Influence of First-Hand Testimony and Hearsay on Children's Belief in the Improbable

2017 · Jonathan D Lane, Samuel Ronfard, et al. · Child Development · 31

Children's Developing Ideas About Knowledge and Its Acquisition

2017 · Samuel Ronfard, Deborah T. Bartz, et al. · Advances in child development and behavior · 29

Relations Among Cultural Learning Beliefs, Self-Regulated Learning, and Academic Achievement for Low-Income Chinese American Adolescents

2016 · Janine Bempechat, Jin Li, et al. · Child Development · 27

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

2020 · Samuel Ronfard, Burcu Ünlütabak, et al. · International Journal of Behavioral Development · 25

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Less imitation of arbitrary actions is a specific developmental precursor to callous–unemotional traits in early childhood

2020 · Nicholas J. Wagner, Rebecca Waller, et al. · Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry · 25

Young children update their trust in an informant’s claim when experience tells them otherwise

2021 · Tone K. Hermansen, Samuel Ronfard, et al. · Journal of Experimental Child Psychology · 24

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Children’s and adults’ epistemic trust in and impressions of inaccurate informants

2019 · Samuel Ronfard, Jonathan D. Lane · Journal of Experimental Child Psychology · 20

Tinkering to innovation: How children refine tools over multiple attempts.

2023 · Emily R. R. Burdett, Samuel Ronfard · Developmental Psychology · 19

Children’s Decision to Transmit Information is Guided by their Evaluation of the Nature of that Information

2017 · Samuel Ronfard, Paul L. Harris · Review of Philosophy and Psychology · 15

Works count: 139

Citation count: 1,327

H-index: 22

I10-index: 31