Butler, L. P. (2020). The empirical child? A framework for investigating the development of scientific habits of mind. Child Development Perspectives, 14, 34-40. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdep.12354
Butler, L. P., *Gibbs, H., & *Levush, K. C. (2020). Look again: Pedagogical demonstration facilitates children's use of counterevidence. Child Development, 91, e1194-e1210.
Butler, L. P., *Gibbs, H. M., & Tavassolie, N. S. (2020). Children’s developing understanding that even reliable sources need to verify their claims. Cognitive Development, 54, 100871. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2020.100871
Butler, L. P., Ronfard, S., & Corriveau, K. H. (Eds.) (2020). The questioning child: Insights from psychology and education. Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 978-1108428910
Butler, L. P., Schmidt, M. F. H., Tavassolie, N., & *Gibbs, H. (2018). Children’s evaluation of verified and unverified claims. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 176, 73-83. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2018.07.007
Butler, L. P., & Markman, E. M. (2016). Navigating pedagogy: Children’s developing capacities for learning from pedagogical interactions. Cognitive Development, 38, 27-35.
Butler, L. P., & Tomasello, M. (2016). Two- and 3-year-old children integrate linguistic and pedagogical cues in guiding inductive generalizations and exploration. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 145, 64-78.
Schmidt, M. F. H., Butler, L. P., Heinz, J., & Tomasello, M. (2016). Young children see a single action and infer a social norm: Promiscuous normativity in 3-year-olds. Psychological Science.
Butler, L. P., Schmidt, M. F. H., Buergel, J., & Tomasello, M. (2015). Young children use pedagogical cues to modulate the strength of normative inferences. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 33, 476-488.
Butler, L. P., & Markman, E. M. (2014). Preschoolers use pedagogical cues to guide radical reorganization of category knowledge. Cognition, 130, 116-12.
Butler, L.P., & Walton, G.M., (2013). The opportunity to collaborate increases preschoolers' motivation for challenging tasks. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 116, 953-961.
Butler, L. P., & Markman, E. M. (2012). Preschoolers use intentional and pedagogical cues to guide inductive inferences and exploration. Child Development, 83, 1416-1428.
Butler, L. P., & Markman, E. M. (2012). Finding the cause: Verbal framing helps children extract causal evidence embedded in a complex scene. Journal of Cognition & Development, 13, 38-66.