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Samuel Ronfard

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Open access Sep 2026

Interpretive theory of mind predicts greater willingness to seek out disagreement for learning.

Though disagreement provides valuable chances to learn, people typically avoid it. This study tested whether understanding that people can hold different views because they have interpreted the same evidence differently predicts children's and adults' interest in talking to someone with a different belief (children: 6...

Kirsten H. Blakey, Samuel Ronfard · 0 citations
Open access Aug 2026

Young Children Use the Discourse Marker "But" to Provide Clarifications in Everyday Conversations.

To communicate effectively, speakers must monitor and refine their utterances based on what their interlocutors know. Young children's use of the contrastive marker but offers a window into this ability. Using longitudinal transcripts, we examined how seven children (ages 2-5) used but to clarify messages in everyday c...

Luis De la Viña, Julia Hu, Paul L Harris et al. · 0 citations

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