Does sharing lead to liking?

For babies ages 14-16 months.

Your baby will watch several short videos of a person giving food items to others. They then see the sharer and the receivers behaving positively or negatively. We want to see which events your baby chooses to look at!

We are interested in how babies expect things will be shared with others. Previous research has demonstrated that early on in life babies and toddlers expect that things such as items of food will be shared equally and fairly. For example, they might expect that a person would share four crackers equally between two people by giving them both two crackers instead of giving one three and the other person one cracker. We are interested in seeing if babies expect sharers to have positive or negative relationships with the receivers depending on whether they got more or less crackers.

10-15 minutes

Within one week of your participation, we’ll email you a $10 Amazon.com gift card as a thank-you. To be eligible for the gift card your child must be in the age range for this study, you need to submit a valid consent statement, we need to see that there is a child with you, and your child cannot have participated before in the study. 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.