Where is my Ball?

In this scheduled video chat with a researcher, your child will be assigned to a group and then listen to a short story, which will help us explore how a child's perception of their group membership plays a role in influencing the understanding of others' minds.

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Is it okay to not understand conversations around me?

In this scheduled Zoom call, your child will be asked to judge whether it is okay or not okay if a person does not understand the language spoken around them

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Language Beyond the Spectrum

Help us learn how children with autism tell stories and its importance to future language, literacy, and math skills!

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Which seeds grew the flowers?

In this study, you and your child will see plots of seeds and plots of flowers, and your child will be asked which plot of seeds grew a specific plot of flowers. This will help us learn more about how children think about causes and effects.

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What do you and your partner think about raising a child with autism?

In this study, co-parents of children with autism spectrum disorder will complete a survey examining perspectives (specifically attitudes), social support, and metal health, and we will learn about how parental agreement affects well-being.

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Whose Cookies?

In this study, your child will play a guessing game with some friends, helping them figure out which plate has just the right amount of cookies.

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Explanations About the Natural World

In a Zoom study, your child will see an informant answer questions about natural objects in a particular way and will answer some questions on their own. We will learn about how children respond to particular kinds of explanations.

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Teaching and Perspective-Taking

In a scheduled video call with a researcher, your child will (i) answer some questions about what people can see and (ii) show pictures or books to you and to the researcher. We will learn about how children think about others’ perspectives while communicating.

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Journey to the GARDEN Library 3 (Finale!)

You've found the last two map pieces! Journey with Fen and find the GARDEN Library. This is the last of three "Travel Montage" videos that show your child their progress in completing the first eight GARDEN studies and the conclusion to the story!

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Guess the Pattern on your tablet!

Your child will do a touchscreen task on your tablet, while you use a laptop/desktop to record them on Children Helping Science. The task on the tablet will involve looking at different patterns and making judgments about them.

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Child Memory Study

In this study, you and your child will join two video chats on separate days. In the first, you'll discuss past events with a researcher. In the second, your child will talk to the researcher, allowing us to explore what they recall from events that were discussed in the first session.

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Who's the Helper?

In this scheduled video chat with a researcher, your child will hear stories about animated characters who engage in friendly social actions (hugging) and guess who is the helper (who gives food, comforts, or makes someone laugh) based on the relationships in the story!

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Where do people go on the ladder?

What do children think about people who speak different languages? In this study, your child will be introduced to people who hear different languages and hear them talk. Help us learn about children’s ideas about languages and accents.

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Do robots and people have feelings?

In this study, you will join a Zoom call with a researcher! Your child will listen to short stories and answer questions. Together we will learn about how young children attribute feelings to others.

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Who knows what?

In this online study, your child will hear brief stories and play an engaging communication game, allowing us to learn more about children’s knowledge of grammar and understanding of others' minds. Some will be invited for a follow-up.

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Let's learn some alien words!

During the zoom session with a researcher, your child will be introduced to friendly aliens learning our language. Your child will help them learn new words to describe the way the aliens look. You child will listen, watch short videos, and choose between images!

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Para quem o menino está apontando?

Seu filho ou filha verá fotos de personagens de desenhos animados interagindo entre si e aprenderemos sobre a interpretação que as crianças fazem dessas interações.

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How are these people feeling?

This study involves 5 scheduled sessions over the year, each session 2 months apart. During each session, your child will be asked questions about how they have been feeling and thinking recently, and then they will answer some questions about how other people are feeling.

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Accentuating Attitudes on Accent

In this scheduled video chat with a researcher, your baby will look at pictures of talking bears, and we will learn how babies interpret different accents.

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Fun with flowers and seeds!

In this study, you and your child will see plots of seeds and plots of flowers, and your child will be asked which plot of seeds grew a specific plot of flowers. This will help us learn more about how children think about causes and effects.

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Comparing proportions in different shapes and sizes!

In a scheduled video call with one of our researchers, your child will be asked to make judgements about proportions.

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Children's Word Learning Strategies

Which strategy is the most effective to learn words in a second language? To help us answer this question, please join us for a scheduled 30-minute Google Meets call where your child will learn basic words in Spanish and play word games.

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Feminist Parenting of Young Children

Feminist parents will fill out an online survey about teaching their child about gender. Some participants will be mailed a book to read to their child, audio-recording themselves doing so.

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What is that toy called?

In this Zoom session, you and your child will watch videos of a robot and a human labelling different toys and objects. Next, your child will be shown pictures of a robot and a person and be asked whether something mechanical (gears) or something biological (a heart) belongs inside.

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Is My Friend Happy?

In this scheduled video chat with a researcher, your child will listen to some scenarios and answer some questions about what factors influence children’s understanding of happiness, specifically examining how children perceive the impact of social material possessions on happiness.

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Multilingual, Exposure, and Social Groups

In this scheduled Zoom call, your child will be introduced to a series of short stories about a character who learnt how to speak two languages in different ways and answer some questions about what they think about them.

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Lulu wants to learn about people and objects!

Your child will help an alien friend, Lulu, in learning about Earth.

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Journey to the GARDEN Library 1

You've found the first 3 map pieces! Journey with Fen and get a little bit closer to finding the GARDEN Library. This is the first of three "Travel Montage" videos that show your child their progress in completing the first eight GARDEN studies.

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Star Machines

In this scheduled video call with a researcher, your child will take the role of an elf working at a star factory. They will be introduced to machines that make different stars, and will be asked to solve different problems using the machines. We will learn about children's learning preferences.

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GARDEN Library Grand Opening 2 (Finale)!

For families who have completed the first eight Project GARDEN studies and are ready to start participating in GARDEN Phase 2. This is a short video introducing the new Phase 2 story with Fen! Fen needs your child's help getting the library ready for visitors!

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Moral Imagination and Kid's Pretend Play

In this asynchronous study, your child will be asked about different games they would like to play, and we will learn about children's moral judgements and imagination through playing pretend.

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GARDEN Library Grand Opening 1!

For families who have completed the first eight Project GARDEN studies and are ready to start participating in GARDEN Phase 2. This is a short video introducing the new Phase 2 story with Fen! Fen needs your child's help getting the library ready for visitors!

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Journey to the GARDEN Library 2

You've found the next 2 map pieces! Journey with Fen and get a little bit closer to finding the GARDEN Library. This is the second of three "Travel Montage" videos that show your child their progress in completing the first eight GARDEN studies.

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Power and social relationship

In this study, your child will hear short stories for about 20 minutes. Help us learn about what children think about power in social relationships!

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Bonding: A survey for parents

You will see statements about your child and your relationship with your child. You will rate how much you agree with each statement on a scale from "strongly disagree" to "strongly agree." We will learn how to improve ways of measuring how parents and children bond.

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How Multiracial Kids and Parents Process Faces

In this scheduled video call with a researcher, you and your child will play interactive games related to faces. We will learn how experiences between Multiracial children and their parents shape their memory for faces and what they think about them.

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