Cristine Legare is a professor of psychology and the director of the Center for Applied Cognitive Science 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 cognitive and cultural evolution. Cristine’s core areas of expertise include global public health, international education, child development, and cognitive science.

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Cristine is the founder and director of the Center for Applied Cognitive Science (CACS). CACS is a multi-disciplinary center for research to advance global cognitive science by bringing together researchers in the biological, cognitive, social, and educational sciences with practitioners, designers, and community partners.

Public Health

Cristine leverages insight from social and biological sciences to develop innovative solutions to pressing concerns in health and medicine.

Education

Cristine harnesses the empirical tools of cognitive science and related social scientific disciplines to improve educational outcomes.

Child Development

Cristine takes a collaborative and contextual approach to studying core topics in child development.

Cognitive Science

Cristine studies the capacity to learn, create, and transmit culture. She is particularly interested in studying cumulative culture.