Who looks happy?

For children ages between 1.5 and 2.5 years old who learn English as their first language.

Your child will see pictures of children showing different emotional expressions, and hear prompts like "who is happy?" We want to see which picture your child looks at!

Children hear and learn new words every day. In this study, we want to know how children match emotion words like “happy,” “sad,” "angry," and "scared" to emotional expressions that they see in the world. Understanding emotion words is critical to children's social and emotional development, and this study will help us find out when young children have these abilities.

15 minutes

After you finish the study, we will send you an Amazon e-gift card ($5USD or $7CAD) in 1-7 days. To be eligible for the gift card, (1) your child must be in the age range for this study, (2) your child's first language is English, (3) you need to submit a valid consent statement, and (4) we need to see that there is a child with you during the experiment. But we will send a gift card even if you do not finish the whole study or we are not able to use your child's data.