Student authors underlined. *Denotes co-first authorship
2024
Wang, Y. & MacGillivray, T. (invited submission). Childhood and Cultural Learning. In Fisher, M. (Eds.), APA Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology.
Halavani, Z., Duggirala, S., Ozker, G., Wang, Y., & MacGillivray, T. (invited submission). The cultural nature of early social communication. In M. Krause, D. Leavens, and K. Bard (Eds.), Pointing, Culture and Evolution. Cambridge University Press.
MacGillivray, T., Kroupin, I., Greenfield, P., Riede, F., Hewlett, B., Nowell, A., Xu, J., Dutra, N., Oppong, S., Takada, A., Halavani, Z. (under review). Chapter 2: A history of cross-cultural research on childhood learning. A field guide to doing cross-cultural research on childhood learning: Theoretical, methodological, practical, and ethical considerations for an interdisciplinary field. Open Book Publishers, UK
MacGillivray, T., Cristia, A., Nowell, A., Amir, D., Pope-Caldwell, S., Dutra, N., Milks, A., Tian, X., Hodson, C., Wang, Y., & Duggirala, S. (under review). Chapter 7: Sharing your research. A field guide to doing cross-cultural research on childhood learning: Theoretical, methodological, practical, and ethical considerations for an interdisciplinary field. Open Book Publishers, UK
Broesch, T. (2024). Mutual joy and social development. In J. D. Osofsky, H. E. Fitzgerald, M. Keren, & K. Puura (Eds.), WAIMH Handbook of infant and early childhood mental health: Biopsychosocial factors (Vol. 1, pp. 407-420). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-48627-2_24
2023
Broesch, T., & Robbins, E. (2023). Decentering the Western perspective on knowledge: A reply to commentaries on ‘Building a cooperative child: evidence and lessons cross-culturally’. Global Discourse,13(3-4), 447-451. https://doi.org/10.1332/20437897Y2023D000000022
Broesch, T., & Robbins, E. (2023). Building a cooperative child: evidence and lessons cross-culturally. Global Discourse, 13(3-4), 417-430. https://doi.org/10.1332/20437897Y2023D000000004
Broesch, T., von Rueden, C., Yurkowski, K., Quinn, H., Alami, S., Davis, H. E., Stupica, B., Nimau, J. T., & Bureau, J.F. (2023). Fatherhood and child-father attachment in two small-scale societies. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 54(5), 591-609. https://doi.org/10.1177/00220221231176788
Broesch, T., Lew-Levy, S., Kärtner, J., Kanngiesser, P., & Kline, M. (2023). A roadmap to doing culturally grounded developmental science. The Review of Philosophy and Psychology,14(2), 587–609. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13164-022-00636-y
2022
Boyette, A., Cebioglu, S., & Broesch, T. (2022). Teaching strategies are shaped by experience with formal education: Experimental evidence from caregiver-child dyads in two Tannese communities. Memory & Cognition, 51(3), 792-806. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-022-01340-z
Cebioglu, S., Marin, K., & Broesch, T. (2022). Variation in caregivers’ references to their toddlers: Child-directed speech in Vanuatu and Canada. Child Development, 93(6), e622-638. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13833
Lew-Levy, S., Bombjaková, D., Milks, A., Ntamboudila, F. K., Kline, M., & Broesch, T. (2022). Costly teaching contributes to the acquisition of spear hunting skill among BaYaka forager adolescents. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 289(1974), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2022.0164
Broesch, T., Little, E., Carver, L., & Legare, C. (2022). Still-face redux: Infant responses to a classic and modified still-face paradigm in proximal and distal care cultures. Infant Behaviour and Development, 68. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2022.101732
2021
McClay, E., Cebioglu, S., Broesch, T., & Yeung, H.H. (2021). Rethinking the phonetics of baby-talk: Differences across Canada and Vanuatu in the articulation of mothers’ speech to infants. Developmental Science, 25(2), e13180. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13180
Lew-Levy, S., Pope, S. M., Haun, D. B. M., Kline, M. A., & Broesch, T. (2021). Out of the empirical box: A mixed-methods study of tool innovation among Congolese BaYaka forager and Bondongo fisher-farmer children. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 211, 105223. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2021.105223
Barrett, H. C., Bolyanatz, A., Broesch, T., Cohen, E., Froerer, P., Kanovsky, M., Schug, M. G., & Laurence, S. (2021). Intuitive dualism and afterlife beliefs: A cross-cultural study. Cognitive Science, 45(6), e12992. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12992
Lew-Levy, S., Milks, A., Ntamboudila, F. K., Broesch, T., & Kline, M. A. (2021). BaYaka adolescent boys nominate accessible adult men as preferred spear hunting models. Current Anthropology, 62(5), 631-640. https://doi.org/10.1086/716853
Cebioglu, S. & Broesch, T. (2021). Explaining cross-cultural variation in mirror self-recognition: New insights into the ontogeny of objective self-awareness. Developmental Psychology, 57(5), 625-638. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/dev0001171
Carpendale, J. I. M., Mueller, U., Wallbridge, B., Broesch, T., Cameron-Faulkner, T., & Eycke, K. T. (2021). The development of giving in forms of object-exchange: Exploring the roots of communication and morality in early interaction around objects. Human Development, 65(3), 166-179. https://doi.org/10.1159/000517221
Lew-Levy, S., Ringen, E. J., Crittenden, A. N., Mabulla, I. A., Broesch, T., & Kline, M. A. (2021). The life history of learning subsistence skills among Hadza and BaYaka foragers from Tanzania and the Republic of Congo. Human Nature, 32, 16-47. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12110-021-09386-9
Broesch, T., Carolan, P. L., Cebioglu, S., von Rueden, C., Boyette, A., Moya, C., Hewlett, B. & Kline, M. A. (2021). Opportunities for interaction: Natural observations of children’s social behaviour in five societies. Human Nature, 32, 208-238. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12110-021-09393-w
Broesch, T. & Wang, Y. (2021). Human infancy and childhood. In J. Vonk & T. Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of animal cognition and behaviour (pp.1-7). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47829-6_2104-1
Broesch, T. & Carpendale, J. (2021). Emotional development across cultures. In D. Dukes, A. C. Samson, & E. A. Walle (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of emotional development. (pp. 398-406). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198855903.013.45
2020
*Broesch, T., *Crittenden, A. N., Beheim, B. A., Blackwell, A. D., Bunce, J. A., Colleran, H., Hagel, K., Kline, M., McElreath, R., Nelson, R. G., Pisor, A. C., Prall, S., Pretelli, I., Purzycki, B., Quinn, E. A., Ross, C., Scelza, B., Starkweather, K., Stieglitz, J., & Mulder, M. B. (2020). Navigating cross-cultural research: Methodological and ethical considerations. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 287(1935). https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.1245
Aime, H., Rochat, P., & Broesch, T. (2020). Cultural differences in infant spontaneous behaviour: Evidence from a small-scale, rural island society. Infant and Child Development, 30(1). https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.2204
House, B. R., Kanngiesser, P., Barrett, H. C., Broesch, T., Cebioglu, S., Crittendon, A. N., Erut, A., Lew-Levy, S., Sebastian-Enesco, C., Smith, A. M., Yilmaz, S., & Silk, J. B. (2020). Universal norm psychology leads to societal diversity in prosocial behavior and development. Nature Human Behavior, 4, 36-44. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-019-0734-z
2019
Smit, A. N., Broesch, T., Siegel, J. M., & Mistlberger, R. E. (2019). Sleep timing and duration in indigenous villages with and without electric lighting on Tanna Island, Vanuatu. Scientific Reports, 9(17278). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-53635-y
Hernik, M. & Broesch, T. (2019). Infant gaze following depends on communicative signals: An eye-tracking study of 5-to-7-month-olds in Vanuatu. Developmental Science, 22(4), e12779. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12779
2018
Kline, M. A., Shamsudeen, R. & Broesch, T. (2018). Variation is the universal: Making cultural evolution work in developmental psychology. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 373(1743). https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2017.0059
Broesch, T., & Bryant, G. A. (2018). Fathers’ infant-directed speech in a small-scale society. Child Development, 89(2), e29-e41. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12768
2017
Aime, H., Broesch, T., Aknin, L. B., & Warneken, F. (2017). Evidence for proactive and reactive helping in two- to five-year olds from a small-scale society. PLoS ONE, 12(11), e0187787. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0187787
Broesch, T., Itakura, S., & Rochat, P. (2017). Learning from others: Selective requests by 3-year-olds of three cultures. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 48(9), 1432-1441. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022022117731093
2016
Broesch, T., Rochat, P., Olah, K., Broesch, J. & Henrich, J. (2016). Similarities and differences in maternal responsiveness in three societies: Evidence from Fiji, Kenya and US. Child Development, 87(3), 700–711. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12501
Broesch, T. (2016). Motherese. In V. A. Weekes-Shackelford & T. K. Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of evolutionary psychological science (pp. 1-2). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_3326-1
2015
Aknin, L. B., Broesch, T., Hamlin, J. K., & Van de Vondervoot, J. W. (2015). Prosocial behavior leads to happiness in a small-scale rural society. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 144(4), 788–795. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xge0000082
2014
Broesch, T. & Bryant, G. (2014). Prosody in infant directed speech is similar across western and traditional cultures. Journal of Cognition and Development, 16(1), 31-43. https://doi.org/10.1080/15248372.2013.833923
2013
Barrett, H. C., Broesch, T., Scott, R. M., He, Z., Baillargeon, R., Wu, D., Bolz, M., Henrich, J., Setoh, P., Wang, J., & Laurence, S. (2013). Early false belief understanding in traditional non-Western societies. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 280(1755), 20122654. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2012.2654
2012
Rochat, P., Broesch, T., & Jayne, K. (2012). Social awareness and early self-recognition. Consciousness and Cognition: An International Journal, 21(3), 1491-1497. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1016/j.concog.2012.04.007
Suanda, S. H., Walton, K. M., Broesch, T., Kolkin, L., & Namy, L. L. (2013). Why two-year-olds fail to learn gestures as object labels: Evidence from looking time and forced-choice measures. Language Learning and Development, 9(1), 50-65. https://doi.org/10.1080/15475441.2012.723189
2011
Broesch, T., Callaghan, T., Henrich, J., Murphy, C., & Rochat, P. (2011) Cultural variations in children’s mirror self-recognition. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 42(6), 1018-1029. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022022110381114
2009
Rochat, P., Dias, M. D. G., Liping, G., Broesch, T., Passos-Ferrera, C., Winning, A., & Berg, B. (2009). Fairness in distributive justice by 3- and 5-year-olds across seven cultures. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 40(3), 416-442. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022022109332844
2004
Callaghan, T. C., Rochat, P., MacGillivray, T. & MacLellan, C. (2004). Modeling referential actions in 6- to 18-month-old infants: A precursor to symbolic understanding. Child Development, 75(6), 1733-1744. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8624.2004.00813.x