Cristine Legare

Cristine Legare is a professor of psychology, a faculty affiliate of the Population Research Center (PRC), and the founder and director of the Center for Applied Cognitive Science (CACS) at The University of Texas at Austin. Her research examines how the human mind enables us to learn, create, and transmit culture. She conducts comparisons across age, culture, and species to address fundamental questions about the co-evolution of cognition and culture. Cristine’s core areas of expertise include global public health, international education, child development, and cognitive science.