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Quantifying quality: The impact of measures of school quality on children's academic achievement across diverse societies (2023)
Journal Article
Rawlings, B. S., Davis, H. E., Anum, A., Burger, O., Chen, L., Morales, J. C. C., Dutra, N., Dzabatou, A., Dzokoto, V., Erut, A., Fong, F. T., Ghelardi, S., Goldwater, M., Ingram, G., Messer, E., Kingsford, J., Lew‐Levy, S., Mendez, K., Newhouse, M., Nielsen, M., …Legare, C. H. (2024). Quantifying quality: The impact of measures of school quality on children's academic achievement across diverse societies. Developmental Science, 27(5), Article e13434. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13434

Recent decades have seen a rapid acceleration in global participation in formal education, due to worldwide initiatives aimed to provide school access to all children. Research in high income countries has shown that school quality indicators have a... Read More about Quantifying quality: The impact of measures of school quality on children's academic achievement across diverse societies.

Peer learning and cultural evolution (2023)
Journal Article
Lew-Levy, S., Bos, W. V. D., Corriveau, K. H., Dutra, N. B., Dutra, N., Flynn, E. G., O'Sullivan, E., Pope-Caldwell, S., Rawlings, B., Smolla, M., Xu, J., & Wood, L. (2023). Peer learning and cultural evolution. Child Development Perspectives, 17, 97-105. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdep.12482

In this article, we integrate cultural evolutionary theory with empirical research from developmental psychology, cultural anthropology, and primatology to explore the role of peer learning in the development of complex instrumental skills and behavi... Read More about Peer learning and cultural evolution.

Chimpanzee communities differ in their inter- and intrasexual social relationships (2023)
Journal Article
Rawlings, B. S., van Leeuwen, E. J., & Davila-Ross, M. (2023). Chimpanzee communities differ in their inter- and intrasexual social relationships. Learning & Behavior, 51, 48-58. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13420-023-00570-8

Male and female human social bonding strategies are culturally shaped, in addition to being genetically rooted. Investigating nonhuman primate bonding strategies across sex groups allows researchers to assess whether, as with humans, they are shaped... Read More about Chimpanzee communities differ in their inter- and intrasexual social relationships.

Cognitive flexibility supports the development of cumulative cultural learning in children (2022)
Journal Article
Davis, S., Rawlings, B., Clegg, J. M., Ikejimba, D., Watson-Jones, R. E., Whiten, A., & Legare, C. H. (2022). Cognitive flexibility supports the development of cumulative cultural learning in children. Scientific Reports, 12, Article 14073. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-18231-7

This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) a... Read More about Cognitive flexibility supports the development of cumulative cultural learning in children.

Developing Cross-Cultural Data Infrastructures (CCDIs) for Research in Cognitive and Behavioral Sciences (2022)
Journal Article
Burger, O., Chen, L., Erut, A., Fong, F. T., Rawlings, B., & Legare, C. H. (2023). Developing Cross-Cultural Data Infrastructures (CCDIs) for Research in Cognitive and Behavioral Sciences. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 14, 565–585. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13164-022-00635-z

Cross-cultural research provides invaluable information about the origins of and explanations for cognitive and behavioral diversity. Interest in cross-cultural research is growing, but the field continues to be dominated by WEIRD (Western, Educated,... Read More about Developing Cross-Cultural Data Infrastructures (CCDIs) for Research in Cognitive and Behavioral Sciences.

After a decade of tool innovation, what comes next? (2022)
Journal Article
Rawlings, B. S. (2022). After a decade of tool innovation, what comes next?. Child Development Perspectives, 16(2), 118-124. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdep.12451

A decade ago, now-seminal work showed that children are strikingly unskilled at simple tool innovation. Since then, a surge of research has replicated these findings across diverse cultures, which has stimulated evocative yet unanswered questions. Hu... Read More about After a decade of tool innovation, what comes next?.

Examining relations between performance on non‐verbal executive function and verbal self‐regulation tasks in demographically‐diverse populations (2022)
Journal Article
Dutra, N. B., Chen, L., Anum, A., Burger, O., Davis, H. E., Dzokoto, V. A., Fong, F. T., Ghelardi, S., Mendez, K., Messer, E. J., Newhouse, M., Nielsen, M. G., Ramos, K., Rawlings, B., dos Santos, R. A., Silveira, L. G., Tucker‐Drob, E. M., & Legare, C. H. (2022). Examining relations between performance on non‐verbal executive function and verbal self‐regulation tasks in demographically‐diverse populations. Developmental Science, 25(5), https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13228

Self-regulation is a widely studied construct, generally assumed to be cognitively supported by executive functions (EFs). There is a lack of clarity and consensus over the roles of specific components of EFs in self-regulation. The current study exa... Read More about Examining relations between performance on non‐verbal executive function and verbal self‐regulation tasks in demographically‐diverse populations.

Why do chimpanzees have diverse behavioral repertoires yet lack more complex cultures? Invention and social information use in a cumulative task (2021)
Journal Article
Vale, G. L., McGuigan, N., Burdett, E., Lambeth, S. P., Lucas, A., Rawlings, B., Schapiro, S. J., Watson, S. K., & Whiten, A. (2021). Why do chimpanzees have diverse behavioral repertoires yet lack more complex cultures? Invention and social information use in a cumulative task. Evolution and Human Behavior, 42(3), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2020.11.003

Personality predicts innovation and social learning in children: implications for cultural evolution (2021)
Journal Article
Rawlings, B., Flynn, E., & Kendal, R. (2022). Personality predicts innovation and social learning in children: implications for cultural evolution. Developmental Science, 25(1), Article e13153. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13153

Innovation and social learning are the pillars of cultural evolution, allowing cultural behaviours to cumulatively advance over generations. Yet, little is known about individual differences in the use of social and asocial information. We examined w... Read More about Personality predicts innovation and social learning in children: implications for cultural evolution.

Overimitation across development: the influence of individual and contextual factors (2020)
Book Chapter
Rawlings, B., Dutra, N., Turner, C., & Flynn, E. (2020). Overimitation across development: the influence of individual and contextual factors. In N. Jones, M. Platt, K. Mize, & J. Hardin (Eds.), Conducting Research in Developmental Psychology A Topical Guide for Research Methods Utilized Across the Lifespan. Routledge

Sex differences in longitudinal personality stability in chimpanzees (2020)
Journal Article
Rawlings, B., Flynn, E., Freeman, H., Reamer, L., Schapiro, S., Lambeth, S., & Kendal, R. (2020). Sex differences in longitudinal personality stability in chimpanzees. Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2, Article e46. https://doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2020.45

Personality factors analogous to the Big Five observed in humans are present in the great apes. However, few studies have examined the long-term stability of great ape personality, particularly using factor-based personality instruments. Here, we ass... Read More about Sex differences in longitudinal personality stability in chimpanzees.

Testing differential use of payoff-biased social learning strategies in children and chimpanzees (2017)
Journal Article
Vale, G., Flynn, E. G., Kendal, J., Rawlings, B., Hopper Lydia, M., Schapiro Steven, J., Lambeth Susan, P., & Kendal, R. (2017). Testing differential use of payoff-biased social learning strategies in children and chimpanzees. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 284(1868), Article 20171751. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2017.1751

Various non-human animal species have been shown to exhibit behavioural traditions. Importantly, this research has been guided by what we know of human culture, and the question of whether animal cultures may be homologous or analogous to our own cul... Read More about Testing differential use of payoff-biased social learning strategies in children and chimpanzees.

To copy or to innovate? The role of personality and social networks on children's learning strategies (2016)
Journal Article
Rawlings, B., Flynn, E., & Kendal, R. (2017). To copy or to innovate? The role of personality and social networks on children's learning strategies. Child Development Perspectives, 11(1), 39-44. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdep.12206

In our technologically complex world, children frequently have problems to solve and skills to learn. They can develop solutions through learning strategies involving social learning or asocial endeavors. While evidence is emerging that children may... Read More about To copy or to innovate? The role of personality and social networks on children's learning strategies.

An analysis of bimanual actions in natural feeding of semi‐wild chimpanzees (2015)
Journal Article
Forrester, G. S., Rawlings, B., & Davila-Ross, M. (2016). An analysis of bimanual actions in natural feeding of semi‐wild chimpanzees. American journal of physical anthropology, 159(1), 85-92. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.22845

Objective The objective of the current study was to investigate the lateral dominance for a bimanually coordinated natural feeding behavior in semi‐wild chimpanzees. Methods Strychnos spp. fruit consumption behaviors in semi‐wild chimpanzees as an ec... Read More about An analysis of bimanual actions in natural feeding of semi‐wild chimpanzees.