Children's Responses to Effective Communication

In a scheduled video call with a researcher, your child will (i) watch some characters interact with each other and (ii) answer some questions based on their interactions. We will learn about how children think about people who use words without defining 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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Doctors, teachers, monkeys, and lions

In this study, your child will interact with a live researcher and watch a series of short videos of people talking, using a new word. At the end of each video, your child will make a guess about what the new word means. Along the way, they'll play a fun map game to learn about some animals.

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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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Ring, ring! Hello?

Your child will watch a short video where they will see two people play a pretend game with an invisible phone. This study will help us learn about how children think about others' beliefs about real and pretend objects.

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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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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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How Dinosaur Lovers Think

In this 45 minute Zoom session with a researcher, children will be asked questions about dinosaurs and other animals. We are trying to understand more about how dinosaur lovers think.

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Household Labor and the Future

This study takes about 2 hours over a couple of months, spread across two live video chats and two surveys. The study is for you, another co-parent you live with (if applicable), and your child. You and your child will be asked questions about chores, careers, and media your child is exposed to.

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How do children understand sentences?

In this video chat, we are studying how children understand sentences that may have multiple meanings by playing a picture-matching game with a puppet.

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Morphing Support

In this scheduled video call with a researcher, your child will be asked yes or no questions about pictures they see to help us learn about what influences whether kids group pictures as similar or different from one another.

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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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What did the parents and friends do?

In this study, your child will watch a series of short videos about parents and friends both taking away objects or giving objects to a child, and we will learn about what they think about these people!

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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. Each session 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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Do robots have morals?

This is a Zoom study! Parents will book a date/time to join the researcher on Zoom. Help us learn whether children attribute morals to robots, like they do people. In this study, your child will hear stories about a robot or human character, then they will be asked what the character should do

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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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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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Which one of these match?

You will lead your child through two tasks that assess their understanding of spatial relations (e.g., locations) and a task assessing their language development, and we will learn about how spatial and language skills interact in early childhood!

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Can you choose the cupcake she wants?

In this study, your child will look at arrays of objects and try to decide which one a character wants from what they say. We will learn how children use emphasis and adjectives to figure out meaning.

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Parenting After Divorce or Separation in England & Scotland

Session 1 for parents will involve a questionnaire and video-chat about your co-parenting arrangement (1-1.5 hr). In session 2 your child will do a picture game to tell us about school, help us finish four stories about a rabbit family, and play an online etch-a-sketch with you (30 minutes).

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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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Verb Variation

We are seeking 3 and 4-year-old participants! In this study, the child will watch short child-friendly videos and answer questions about what they hear!

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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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Hey, I know what that means!

In this study, your child will interact with a live researcher and a friendly alien named Weepo. Weepo would like to know if your child knows the meaning of some words he has learned. Your child will see some images, then Weepo will describe one, and ask your child to find it.

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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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Science Story Detectives

Can children be taught about scientific concepts effectively through a storybook intervention? In this study, your child will hear a storybook about a scientific concept (either contagion or evolution) and answer questions about what your child learned!

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Perspective-Taking and Children's Responses to Teachers

In a scheduled video call with a researcher, your child will answer some questions about pictures and videos. We will learn about how children think about perspective-taking and teaching. This study has up to two visits.

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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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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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I wonder which one that is!

In this study, your child will interact with a live researcher and a friendly alien on screen named Weepo. Your child will see some images. Then Weepo will describe one of them using a brand-new word and some familiar words, and ask your child to pick the right image.

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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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Help Bear Find Blickets!

In this study, you or your child will watch short clips of objects being used on a machine. Then, you’ll try it out—picking which one you think will make it go! Your answers help us learn how people explore and discover cause and effect by trying things out.

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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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Let's build a zoo!

In this study, your child will build a zoo by participating in a series of fun activities, including a memory game and a quantity guessing game.

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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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