Which wub knows how to make the toy ring?

3, 4, 5, 6, and 7-year-olds

Your child will be introduced to friendly creatures - the wubs - and will watch two videos about them. In the videos, the wubs interact with a toy, pressing the buttons and lever, and with each other, either speaking or sneezing. After watching the videos, your child will be asked a question about which of two wubs knows how to operate the toy.

As adults, it's often easy for us to reason about what others know. Sometimes this is as easy as listening to what someone says or watching how they behave. However, we can also reason about what others know by observing how they influence others. In this study, children are presented with scenarios where speakers interact with a listener by either speaking gibberish or sneezing towards them. Based on how the listeners act towards a toy afterwards, we're curious if children can reason about whether the speaker themselves was knowledgeable about that toy.

5 minutes

To thank you for your participation, you will receive a $5 Amazon.com gift card within 2 weeks of your participation. To be eligible for the gift card, your child must be in the age range for the study, you need to provide a valid consent statement, we need to see that there is a child with you during in the video, and this needs to be the first time that your child is participating in this study.