Where's Chip?

Help us learn about how preschool children use sound to infer others' success! In this study, your child will watch two animated videos about a friendly bear wanting to complete two activities.

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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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Let's learn how to dax!

How does under-representation contribute to children's self image? In this study, your child will learn a new activity and try out for a special club. Your participation will help us learn how representation shapes children's gender stereotypes and self-perception in elite groups.

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Kids' Thinking About Different Geographic Places

Your child will read some stories about different geographic places (rural, urban, suburban) and answer some questions about the people who live in those places and the different resources those places have. You will also answer some questions about your child and different geographic areas.

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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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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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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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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 what is worth their effort.

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Help us learn the names of new toys!!

In this study that is completed on a computer with headphones, your child will see pictures of toys and choose different people to teach them the names of the toys, and we will learn about who children like to learn from when learning language.

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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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Emotions and Math

In this study that takes place on a video call, your child will answer math questions and questions about color to help us learn more about how children’s feelings toward math impact how they do on activities related to math.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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How Social Factors Affect Children’s Motivation

Your child will hear about two groups of children differing in gender and race/ethnicity who chose between two activities. They’ll be asked about the kids’ choices and their own preferences for the activities to learn about how social factors affect children’s motivation to play different games.

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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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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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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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Conversations with Ziggy!

In this scheduled video chat with a researcher, your child will watch videos featuring an alien named Ziggy and answer some questions, and we will learn about children's ability to detect differences in tone.

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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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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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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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Who drew this?

In this scheduled video chat with a researcher, your child will see what two characters drew in an art class. They will then see a third piece of art and have to say which of the two characters drew it.

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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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Rules and Rule-breaking

Your child will see short stories about characters in different towns, and get asked about where rule-breaking might happen more. Help us learn what children think about formal rules and why rules become formalized!

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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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Motor Learning Games

Understanding how children learn to move through interactive 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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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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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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How Will We Share?

In this study, your child will watch a short story and be asked to predict what happens next—whether the leader keeps the apple or shares it. We’re interested in how children think about leaders and sharing.

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Words in Space

In this scheduled video chat with a researcher, your child will watch short 3D animated videos of objects being placed in different ways and choose which of two new videos is most similar. We are studying how children use language to group and understand spatial scenes.

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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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Autistic Children Learning About Others! Girls Encouraged to Participate!

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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Comforting in Friendships

In this live study with a researcher on Zoom, your child will see different stories about characters interacting with one another, and we will learn about children’s understanding of comforting and helping in friendships.

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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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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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Yummy or Yucky

Your child will see some videos of someone giving feedback to their friend after trying their food. Then your child will be asked about the taste of the food and the person’s intentions. We will learn about how children make sense of different cues in conversation!

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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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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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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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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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Children’s Understanding of Emotion Through Words and Pictures - Play Games to Win Points

In this two-session study, your child will learn about different options and make decisions to win points, and they will answer questions about thoughts and feelings. A parent will answer questions about their child and family.

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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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Power and social relationship

In this study, your child will hear short stories for about 20-25 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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