Welcome to the CCD Lab

The Cognition, Culture, and Development Laboratory is directed by Dr. Cristine Legare and is located in the Psychology Department at The University of Texas at Austin.

Children are actively engaged in learning about the world around them. In our research we investigate how children acquire new information and construct new ways of understanding through exploration and learning from others.

We study cognitive development from an interdisciplinary perspective by using a variety of methods to examine how children learn across cultures. We are actively studying a number of core research topics in cognitive developmental psychology including causal reasoning, social learning, the development of scientific and supernatural beliefs, and science education.