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Tara Callaghan
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Research
Latest papers
The emergence of cooperative behaviors, norms, and strategies across five diverse societies.
Science advances · 2026
Across six societies children engage in costly third-party punishment of unfair sharing.
Communications psychology · 2025
Fostering Prosociality in Refugee Children: An Intervention With Rohingya Children.
Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development · 2024 · first author
Latest funding
- $97,625
A longitudinal study of reciprocal sharing across diverse cultural contexts
SSHRC · 2018 · Principal investigator
- $24,950
Facilitating the Prosocial Development of Young Rohingya Refugee Children
SSHRC · 2018 · Principal investigator
- $199,600
Rohingya refugee children and youth: Development and facilitation of prosocial behavior in mega-camp contexts
SSHRC · 2018 · Principal investigator
8 publications.
The emergence of cooperative behaviors, norms, and strategies across five diverse societies.
Amir D, Ahl RE, Jordan MR, Bolotin H, Bogese M, González GT, Callaghan T, Sugiyama LS, Otali E, Tusiime P, Bangayan S, Snodgrass JJ, McAuliffe K
Across six societies children engage in costly third-party punishment of unfair sharing.
McAuliffe K, Bangayan S, Callaghan T, Corbit J, Dixson HGW, Dunham Y, Finkel A, Otali E, Riddick S, Tusiime P, Warneken F
Fostering Prosociality in Refugee Children: An Intervention With Rohingya Children.
Callaghan T, Colasante T, Muhammad S, Corbit J, Yavuz-Muren M, Raffaele C, Akter R, Al Janaideh R, Duan TY, Didkowsky N, Beuze JN, Homer B, Cameron CA, Malti T
Facilitating the prosocial development of Rohingya refugee children.
Corbit J, Didkowsky N, Gora V, Reddy H, Muhammad S, Callaghan T
The influence of collaboration on children's sharing in rural India.
Corbit J, Brunschwig V, Callaghan T
Early prosocial development across cultures.
Callaghan T, Corbit J
Early social cognition in three cultural contexts.
Callaghan T, Moll H, Rakoczy H, Warneken F, Liszkowski U, Behne T, Tomasello M
Synchrony in the onset of mental-state reasoning: evidence from five cultures.
Callaghan T, Rochat P, Lillard A, Claux ML, Odden H, Itakura S, Tapanya S, Singh S
A longitudinal study of reciprocal sharing across diverse cultural contexts
Principal investigators: Callaghan, Tara C.
Keywords: reciprocity; prosocial; sharing; development; culture; cooperation
Facilitating the Prosocial Development of Young Rohingya Refugee Children
Principal investigators: Callaghan, Tara C.
Keywords: Rohingya; refugee children; prosocial development
Rohingya refugee children and youth: Development and facilitation of prosocial behavior in mega-camp contexts
Principal investigators: Callaghan, Tara C.
Keywords: prosocial development; refugee children; fostering development
Cultural supports for symbolic development
Principal investigators: Callaghan, Tara C.
Keywords: culture and human development; symbolic development; social cognition
Basic process in the development of visual symbolism
Principal investigators: Callaghan, Tara
Basic process in the development of visual symbolism
Principal investigators: Callaghan, Tara
Methodological and contextual challenges researching childhood resilience: an international collaboration to develop a multiple method research design to investigate health-related phenomena in at-risk child populations
Principal investigators: Ungar, Michael T.
Keywords: resilience; risk; children; youth; cultural diversity; research methods; quantitative research; qualitative research
Interdisciplinary examination of the role of culture on human development: an international project for the development of new methodologies, compilation of a unique database, and recommendations for a new empiricism
Principal investigators: Callaghan, Tara
Keywords: child development; culture and cognitive development; interdisciplinary study of human development
Early development of symbolic representation in the graphic domain
Principal investigators: Callaghan, Tara
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- John Corbit and Tara Callaghan: 2 shared papers
- Tina Malti and John Corbit: 1 shared paper
- Tina Malti and Tara Callaghan: 1 shared paper
- Child and Adolescent Psychology
- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
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