Cristine Legare is a Professor of Psychology and the Founder and Director of the Center for Applied Cognitive Science at The University of Texas at Austin. She received her PhD in Developmental Psychology from the University of Michigan in 2008. An author of more than 100 articles, her research examines how the human mind enables us to learn, create, and transmit culture. Dr. Legare’s research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Academy of Sciences, the McDonnell Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the John Templeton Foundation. Dr. Legare is the recipient of the APS Janet Taylor Spence Award for Transformative Early Career Contributions and the APA Boyd McCandless Award for her research on the evolution and ontogeny of cognition and culture.