Pain-related Stigma and Stress in Youth with Chronic Pain

Help researchers learn more about the experience of youth with chronic pain. Interested participants will be connected with a parent/caregiver survey to begin followed by several surveys to be completed by their child/adolescent (parent/caregiver can be present or not).

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Children's Intuitions about Protected and Unprotected Societies

During this short Zoom study, a researcher will tell your child a story about two towns: one that is protected by many walls, fences, and locks, and one that is not protected by walls, fences, or locks. We will ask children what they think about the two towns, and the people who live in them.

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Attitudes towards Music

In this study your child will complete a questionnaire about their attitudes towards music.

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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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Alien Greenhouse: Which lights make the flowers bloom?

In this study, you and your child will see six stories involving lights that make Alien flowers bloom.

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Thinking about Thinking

In a scheduled Zoom call with a researcher, your child will answer questions about how they learn and think about new information. You will also be asked to complete some questionnaires.

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Blue dots, yellow dots!

In this study, your child will learn a new activity and try out for a special club! Your child will answer some questions afterwards. Your participation will help us learn how children reason about selection!

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Thinking About the Past and the Future

This study focuses on how children remember their experiences from the COVID-19 pandemic and how they think about their country’s future.

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Catch The Ball

In this study, your child will see a ball falling through some obstacles and will try to make sure the ball lands on a cushion. When the ball lands on a cushion, something cool happens!

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Learning About Others!

Help us learn about social decision making! This computer based asynchronous study includes surveys for parents to fill out about their child's behavior and a three-part online game where kids will be asked to guess the likes and dislikes of other kids.

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Paths to Happiness Study

Children will listen to stories featuring characters with different ideas on happiness and share their own thoughts and preferences. We aim to explore children's understanding of the relationship between ideas about happiness and behavior, as well as their evaluation of these ideas.

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Emotions in Adolescents' Everyday Life

Caregivers and teens begin with a 1 hour Zoom session. Teens answer questionnaires about daily life and then complete a task rating emotional images. After, teens complete 5-minute image tasks alone for 13 days. Teens complete the same questionnaires after the daily tasks and one week later.

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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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Alien Greenhouse: Which Lights are Best?

In this study, you and your child will see six stories involving special lights that make flowers bloom.

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Guess What The Teacher Will Do!

Your child will see and hear stories about students in a classroom! In each story, teachers will assign students in their classrooms to different after school clubs, like an “engineering club” and a “story club”. Your child will tell us how much they like or don’t like...

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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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Against the Odds

In this survey, your child will answer some questions about inequality and social mobility in a hypothetical society. They will also hear stories about characters with varying work ethics. From this, we will learn more about how children think about fairness and inequality!

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Fun with Fractions!

In this study, your child will help a character match numbers to pictures and discuss pictures with you.

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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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Game Boxes!

In this study, your child will play with multiple games, and will rate how much they like each game.

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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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Teens and Online Trends

Are you worried about what your teen is doing online? In this study, you and your teen will answer questions about yourselves. These questions will be about how personality traits, aggression, and internet use help to predict different types of behavioral problems.

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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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Let's see Elmo and Grover play with their friends

In this study, you and your child will watch short videos of Elmo and Grover learning about toys, reading stories, and talking with adults. Your child will be asked to choose the adults that Elmo and Grover like playing with more. The game will take about 15 minutes.

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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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Children’s experiences with AD(H)D medication

This study is for children who take AD(H)D medication such as Ritalin or Concerta. Your child will fill out questions about their experiences after starting their medication.

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Let's Play Trivia!

In this scheduled study with a researcher, your child will play a trivia game with either you (the parent) or another adult (assigned by the researcher), then you will both complete a questionnaire. ONLY 1 child per family may participate in this study.

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Marble Game

During a live video call with a researcher, your child will help solve a mystery between two characters about who possesses more marbles!

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Does this thing that’s not mine *feel* like it’s mine?

In this scheduled video chat with a researcher, your child will learn about different objects that will be described as belonging to them or someone else, and we will learn how children think about ownership. You will also complete a parent survey as a part of this study.

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Alien Greenhouse: Pick the Odd One Out!

In this study, you and your child will see six stories involving lights and flowers inside the Alien Greenhouse. Each time, you and your child will listen to the story and choose the odd one out!

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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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Where will they look?

Do children have expectations about what others will do?

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Autistic Children Learning About Others!

Help us learn about social decision making and autism spectrum disorder! This computer based asynchronous study includes surveys for parents to fill out about their child's behavior and a three-part online game where kids will be asked to guess the likes and dislikes of other kids.

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What do you think about other children's friends?

In this scheduled Zoom call, your child will sort pictures of children in different ways. Then your child will hear different scenarios where another child has chosen different friends and will be asked questions to assess how children think about others' friendship choices.

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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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Safe and Not Safe Goals

During this short Zoom study, a researcher will tell your child some stories about parents and their children. We ask if 5-year-olds think it's good or bad for parents to help or not help their children achieve different kinds of goals.

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The Listening Treasure Hunt

Help us understand how knowledge affects perception during childhood: Your child will answer questions about recordings of simple sentences to reveal parts of the pirate's treasure map and get closer to finding the treasure!

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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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The Change Detective

In this scheduled video chat with a researcher, your child will look at how pictures change in different ways. We will learn about children's ability to figure out patterns from what they see and apply it to a new scenario.

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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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Alien Greenhouse: Pick the lights that make the flowers bloom!

In this study, you and your child will see six stories involving lights that make Alien flowers bloom.

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Kids' developing beliefs

In this scheduled video chat with a researcher, children are asked how much they agree or disagree with 33 statements about religion, science, nature, and human nature, and we will learn about children's beliefs.

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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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Are percentages hard? Help make them easier!

In this study, your child will first take a short test on percentages. Then, they will watch two short videos about percentages. After that, they will take the same test again to see if they learned more. All tasks must be done on a computer, not a phone or tablet. Pencil and paper required.

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Reading Habits in Children Learning English as a Second Language

Help us learn about reading! In three scheduled video calls with a researcher, your child will fill out a reading habits survey, complete short memory tasks, and read sentences followed by comprehension questions. The study will be split into three sessions done on three different days.

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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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