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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How Does Attachment Shape Memories?

In this study, which involves two online surveys, both you and your child will complete questionnaires about memories. Your child will complete additional questions about their attachment and emotions. We aim to learn about children's memory abilities and their relationship with mood and guardians.

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Do some of the dogs have a hat?

In this scheduled video chat with a researcher, your child will judge sentences describing pictures of animals and objects, to help us understand how children talk about quantities.

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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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Multiple Identities and Flexible Thinking

This study is for children born in the USA who are multiracial &/or multicultural. Your child will complete a portion of a survey, and you (their parent/caregiver) will fill out the rest. We will learn about multiracial &/or multicultural children's identity perceptions and their flexibility.

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Can They Think Differently?

Schedule a Zoom, read through a few short stories, and chat with a researcher! We are studying how children think beliefs can be influenced by different sources. Specifically, how different types of beliefs can be shaped by the reasons an adult gives.

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How many of them have bikes?

We invite your child to help us discover how children learn the words for quantities, in a game where the child decides if a puppy has given the right description of some wacky new creatures.

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Abracadabra! What is this now?

Help us understand the development of various visual perceptual abilities in children as they grow up!

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¡Let’s read un cuento!

We’re studying how bilingual children learn words through storybooks! In up to three scheduled video chats, your child will hear bilingual stories, play word and number games, and help us understand how storybooks support language development.

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How will they feel?

In this study, your child will hear stories about children helping others, and we will learn about children's understanding of well-intentioned, helpful actions.

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Comparing Quantities While Talking

In this study, your child will make judgements about blue and orange rectangles by pointing. You will enter their response by clicking on their choice. In certain cases, they may be asked to complete a secondary task, such as saying the word "the" over and over while making their choices.

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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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Which face did you see before?

In this scheduled 60 minute video chat with a researcher, your child will memorize pictures of faces and will be asked about their memory. This will help us learn how children self-reflect about their memory.

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Hi / Salut / Namaste! My parent’s friends are my friends

In this scheduled video chat with a researcher, your child will watch puppets speaking in different languages and an edited video of you, their caregiver, interacting with these puppets, and will answer some questions so we can understand their language-based social preferences.

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More Food or Better Food?

Help us learn about how children understand social relationships based on sharing in a in a one-time live video call with a researcher!

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Children's beliefs about group inequality in a made-up world

Help us learn about how different descriptions of groups might help children better understand their social world.

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Apples, Apples....Uh-Oh!

In this study, your child will watch a short story and be asked to predict what happens next—whether the completes a risky task or makes a follower. We’re interested in how children think about leaders and the choices they make.

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I see me, I see you: Recognizing emotions in others

This study takes about 90 minutes total, half for a survey you complete and half for a scheduled video chat with you, your child and a researcher. We will learn about how preschoolers with autism understand emotion as they see them on other people’s faces and what tools can help their understanding.

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Road Trip with Friends! 3.0

In this study, your child will go on a virtual road trip and help some friends along the way! This is a new version of "Road Trip with Friends" - if eligible, your child can participate even if you've done a previous version of this study!

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Deciding which proportion is bigger!

In a scheduled zoom call, your child will be asked to compare proportions in the form of different colored shapes (like different kinds of rectangles).

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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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Read a Picture Book with Your Child

In this study, your child will read a picture book with you, watch some videos and answer some questions, and we will learn about how to counter stereotypes.

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How children think about care and social relationships

In a scheduled video call with a researcher, your child will listen to short stories about novel characters who help each other. Based on patterns of helping, we will ask your child to make guesses about the characters’ relationship.

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Explain If You Can!

In this scheduled video chat with a researcher, your child will hear stories about characters with different experiences, then answer questions about what these characters might be thinking and why certain things happened in the stories. This helps us learn about perspective-taking in communication.

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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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Re-engagement Study for Puppies

This study is for you (the adult) and your dog! For about 9 months (starting at 3 or 4 months old, and until 12 months), you will video record yourselves as you complete a simple procedure and then share your video with our research team. This will help us learn about how dogs cooperate with people.

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Abracadabra! This is new!

Help us understand the development of various visual perceptual abilities in children as they grow up!

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Should I do what majority wants or what I want?

In this scheduled Zoom call, your child will be asked to chose which activity the class should do when the students in the classroom are split on what activity they want to do.

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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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Children's thinking about disagreement

In this study, that takes place on a video call live with a researcher, children will be asked questions about some cartoon characters and what they think about these characters' disagreements.

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Household Labor and the Future

This study consists of a live video chat and survey and may require a second visit. 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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Children's reasoning about exceptional events

Your child will watch several short videos with a researcher in a video call. The videos involve a character who has a routine (e.g., taking a certain route home). Your child will answer short questions about changes to that routine, helping us learn about the possibilities children can think about.

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"Hello! vs. Hello??" How autistic children learn prosody

Help us learn about how autistic children use prosody (tone of voice)! In this study, your child will play several short games that involve listening to and saying words or sentences that match pictures. The study takes about 45 minutes and happens during a live video chat with a researcher.

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Let’s Draw and Play!

In this scheduled video call, your child will engage in various drawing activities with a researcher. Help us learn how praise influences children’s persistence and challenge-taking behavior!

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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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Silly Monster Stories

Help us figure out what children learn from story books in a scheduled video call with a researcher!

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How do families talk about nature?

In this study, you and your child will go on a simulated forest walk and talk about the nature you see! This will help us learn more about how children learn through their experiences in nature.

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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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DonutFest

In this experiment, your child will learn which donuts are "good" and which donuts are "bad" in the DonutFest game, and we will learn how children form attitudes about new information.

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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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How Do Kids With Autism See Faces?

Your child will see two faces on the screen. The top parts of the faces will either be the same or different. Your child will be asked to decide whether the top halves of the faces are the same or different. This study will help us better understand the development of face perception in kids.

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Favorite Fruits!

In this scheduled video chat with a researcher, your child will learn about aliens liking certain colored fruits, and we will learn about how children form rules.

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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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Move, Think, Rest: What do kids know about energy?

In this scheduled 45-minute video call with a researcher, your child will be asked questions about everyday activities, including how they may change a person’s energy, and how difficult and how fun they are. You child will also answer short questions about what it means to be a living thing.

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Is My Friend Lying?

Help us learn how children interpret lies! In this study, you and your child will be on a Microsoft Teams call with a researcher. Your child will hear some stories in which characters lie, and then tell us what he or she thinks about the situation!

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Tag Team with Gizmo!

In this 15min study about teamwork, children will work together to count stars in the galaxy with Gizmo, a friendly alien from outer space. This study will help us learn how kids navigate collaborations with peers.

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Commitment Study for Adult Dogs

This study is for you (adult/parent) and your dog! In this study, you will video record yourselves as you complete a procedure on 4 different days and then share your videos with our research team. This will help us learn about whether dogs understand commitments like humans do.

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Do I prefer someone inside my group or outside my group?

In this scheduled Zoom call, your child will be asked to choose a classroom leader after watching different students in the classroom participating in negative events.

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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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Is it better to have the same things or different things?

In this scheduled video chat with a researcher, your child will hear stories about different characters, and we will learn how children think about wealth and power.

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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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Which character pronounced the word that way?

In a scheduled video call with a researcher, your child will see and hear cartoon characters label novel objects using different types of pronunciations. On each trial, they will be asked to decide which type of speaker uses a specific type of pronunciation.

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Read a 4th Grade Story about Kurt’s Big Day!

In this study, your child will read an age-appropriate digital story about air travel. After reading the story, your child will answer several questions, and we will learn about how to help kids read more effectively.

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Canadian Kids' Reasoning about Diversity

In this scheduled video call with a researcher, your child will learn about diverse fictional characters, and help us learn how children reason about diversity in their environment.

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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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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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The secret language of penguins

In this study, your child will watch a few short videos of penguins speaking a made-up language, select and read words, and help us learn about children's ability to acquire new words.

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What do they believe?

In this study, your child will hear about characters with different beliefs. We will ask your child questions about the characters, such as what else the character might believe.

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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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Which Way Should We Go?

In this scheduled video call with a researcher, your child will play a short computer game similar to Pac-Man, and we will learn how children set goals and collaborate with others!

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Science Story Detectives

How do children learn to reason about contagious illness? In this study, we will investigate how reasoning about familiar concepts may help children reason about more difficult concepts like contagion.

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Which block structure is harder to build?

In this study, your child will see pictures of people playing with blocks, and they will judge how hard or easy it is to build various block structures!

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The costs of social actions

In this scheduled video chat, a researcher will read to your child about some fictional characters experiencing a conflict. The researcher will ask your child questions to understand what children think about the ups and downs of social relationships.

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Is that possible?

In this scheduled video call with a researcher, children will be asked whether they think some events are possible or not.

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Figuring Out Social Relationships

During this short Zoom study, a researcher will tell your child stories about characters their age who share different things with different people. Based on these patterns of sharing, we will ask your child who they think will comfort the characters when they become upset.

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Planning a party - how children talk about possibilities

In this scheduled video chat with a researcher, your child will watch several videos with us involving a character who tells us about her day. Your child will help us fill in parts of what the character says, helping us learn more about the language children use to describe different possibilities.

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Power and social relationships

In this study, your child will watch short pre-recorded videos featuring cute characters engaging in novel actions such as ‘daxing,’ and we’ll learn how children understand power and social relationships.

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Toy Showing Study for Adult Dogs

This study is for two adults and your dog you both live with! In this study, you will video record yourselves as you complete a procedure on 4 different days and then share your videos with our research team. This will help us learn about how dogs communicate with people.

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The Memory–Mood Mix

In this study, which involves two scheduled video sessions, your child will complete questionnaires about attachment and emotions, a memory recall test, and two intelligence tests with guidance from a researcher, and we will learn about children's memory abilities and their relationship with mood.

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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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"Hello! vs. Hello??" How children learn prosody

Help us learn about how children use prosody (tone of voice)! In this study, your child will play several short games in a 30-minute live session with a researcher. *At this point in the study, only families in which the primary caregiver does not have a bachelor’s or advanced degree are eligible.*

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Thinking about preferences and rules

In this scheduled video chat with a researcher, your child will watch several short videos with us involving a character's thoughts, and answer questions about the videos. This will help us understand how children think about mental states in the context of imaginary events.

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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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For Children in Three US States (CA, NY, or TX): Fairy Tales!

Let’s Talk about Fairy Tales, your Creativity and Imagination! For children who live in California, New York or Texas. On a live video-call, you will tell us what you think about fairy tales to help science learn about imagination, creativity and personality.

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Probabilistic Learning Across Development: What Will Wiggle Do Next?

In this study, your child will play a game where they guess what Wiggle the friendly alien will do next!

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What is a good explanation?

Help us learn about explanations in a live video call with a researcher, in a one session study!

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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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Conversations on Household Labor Between Children and Their Parents

This study is for you and your child. In this scheduled Zoom call, you and your child will be asked to discuss two short videos, and your child will then be asked to divide chores between two hypothetical parents.

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Is This One?

In this study, your child will see some videos and hear some new words. We will ask your child whether what they see in new videos can be described using the same new words they just heard. We will discover what aspects of others’ actions children use to learn new words.

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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 Talk with Aliens!

In this scheduled video chat with a researcher, your child will see aliens talking to each other, then answer questions about how these aliens talked. This helps us learn about how children communicate.

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Lions, tigers, aliens, oh my!

In this scheduled video chat with a researcher, your child will rate and try different games that are described as "fun," "too hard," or "too boring" for their group.

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Thinking backwards about causes and effects

In this scheduled video chat with a researcher, your child will watch several short videos with us involving a simple causal system, and answer questions about the videos. This will help us understand how children think about how children use backwards reasoning (from effect to cause).

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How does practice make progress?

In this study, your child will watch two friends play a ring toss game together, answer questions, and help us understand how children think about learning from practice!

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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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Judgement of Disagreement

In a scheduled Zoom call with a researcher, your child will engage with conflicting scientific claims, and we will learn about how children perceive empirical disagreement.

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