Samuel Ronfard

Samuel Ronfard

University of Toronto

H-index: 20

North America-Canada

About Samuel Ronfard

Samuel Ronfard, With an exceptional h-index of 20 and a recent h-index of 18 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at University of Toronto, specializes in the field of Developmental Psychology, Cognitive Development, Social Learning.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

Updating trust: How children combine trait information with prior accuracy as they interact with an informant.

Young children's conceptualization of empirical disagreement

Older children verify adult claims because they are skeptical of those claims

Children’s Pursuit of Counterintuitive Information in Books

The development of modal intuitions: A test of two accounts.

Is book reading always best? Children learn and transfer complex scientific explanations from books or animations

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

Why we should care about moral foundations when preparing for the next pandemic: Insights from Canada, the UK and the US

Samuel Ronfard Information

University

Position

Assistant Professor of Psychology

Citations(all)

1097

Citations(since 2020)

957

Cited By

501

hIndex(all)

20

hIndex(since 2020)

18

i10Index(all)

28

i10Index(since 2020)

27

Email

University Profile Page

University of Toronto

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Samuel Ronfard Skills & Research Interests

Developmental Psychology

Cognitive Development

Social Learning

Top articles of Samuel Ronfard

Title

Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

Updating trust: How children combine trait information with prior accuracy as they interact with an informant.

Developmental Psychology

Dhanesha Bhatti

Jonathan D Lane

Samuel Ronfard

2024/3/28

Young children's conceptualization of empirical disagreement

Cognition

Qianru Tiffany Yang

Selesteel Sleight

Samuel Ronfard

Paul L Harris

2023/12/1

Older children verify adult claims because they are skeptical of those claims

Child Development

Samantha Cottrell

Eric Torres

Paul L Harris

Samuel Ronfard

2023/1

Children’s Pursuit of Counterintuitive Information in Books

Journal of cognition and development

Jonathan D Lane

Samuel Ronfard

2023/10/20

The development of modal intuitions: A test of two accounts.

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

Brandon W Goulding

Farishteh Khan

Keisuke Fukuda

Jonathan D Lane

Samuel Ronfard

2023/10/16

Is book reading always best? Children learn and transfer complex scientific explanations from books or animations

Evolution: Education and Outreach

Samuel Ronfard

Sarah A Brown

Emma Pitt

Deborah Kelemen

2023/6/5

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

Developmental Psychology

Emily RR Burdett

Samuel Ronfard

2023/6

Why we should care about moral foundations when preparing for the next pandemic: Insights from Canada, the UK and the US

Plos one

Lizette Pizza

Samuel Ronfard

John D Coley

Deborah Kelemen

2023/5/12

Exploring the linguistic, cognitive, and social skills underlying lexical processing efficiency as measured by the looking-while-listening paradigm

Journal of Child Language

Samuel Ronfard

WEI Ran

2022/3

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

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Tone Kristine Hermansen

Samuel Ronfard

Paul Harris

Francisco Pons

Imac Maria Zambrana

2020/11/29

Preschool children rarely seek empirical data that could help them complete a task when observation and testimony conflict

Child Development

Tone K Hermansen

Samuel Ronfard

Paul L Harris

Imac M Zambrana

2021/11

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

Cognition

Samuel Ronfard

Sarah Brown

Erin Doncaster

Deborah Kelemen

2021/6/1

Testing what you’re told: Young children’s empirical investigation of a surprising claim

Journal of Cognition and Development

Samuel Ronfard

Eva E Chen

Paul L Harris

2021/5/27

The questioning child: Insights from psychology and education

Lucas Payne Butler

Samuel Ronfard

Kathleen H Corriveau

2020/1/30

The questioning child: A path forward.

Samuel Ronfard

Lucas Payne Butler

Kathleen H Corriveau

2020

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

Evolution: Education and Outreach

Sarah A Brown

Samuel Ronfard

Deborah Kelemen

2020/12

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

International Journal of Behavioral Development

Samuel Ronfard

Burcu Ünlütabak

Marina Bazhydai

Ageliki Nicolopoulou

Paul L Harris

2020/9

A cognitive developmental approach is essential to understanding cumulative technological culture

Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Emily Rachel Reed Burdett

Samuel Ronfard

2020/8/10

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

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry

Nicholas J Wagner

Rebecca Waller

Megan Flom

Samuel Ronfard

Susan Fenstermacher

...

2020/7

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Co-Authors

H-index: 114
Paul Harris

Paul Harris

Harvard University

H-index: 46
Kimberly J. Saudino

Kimberly J. Saudino

Boston University

H-index: 46
Meredith L. Rowe

Meredith L. Rowe

Harvard University

H-index: 44
Yarrow Dunham

Yarrow Dunham

Yale University

H-index: 38
Rebecca  Waller

Rebecca Waller

University of Pennsylvania

H-index: 38
Kathleen Corriveau

Kathleen Corriveau

Boston University

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