Which town has the formal rule?

In this study, your child will watch short videos of cute characters that live in different towns. In each story, towns aren't allowed to do this thing called "daxing". The towns are different in some ways, like by how big the towns are and how dangerous the towns are.

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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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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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“yes, and..” (how conjunctions shape kids’ answers)

In this scheduled video chat with a researcher, your child will watch two short stories about Froggy and Ducky as they go through a series of events, and we will learn how children answer “Do you know…?” questions to see whether they give yes/no answers or add more detail.

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Can Language and Emotions Improve Our Thinking Skills?

In this scheduled video chat with a researcher, your child will play interactive games where they match shapes, match facial expressions, and label everyday items; and a parent will complete a brief questionnaire. We’re studying how children use their thinking skills.

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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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How will you spend your tokens?

In this scheduled video call with a researcher, children will play short games to earn tokens, and then decide to keep or donate the tokens. We will learn how social information influences children's decisions.

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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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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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Team up 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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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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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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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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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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Big Media on Little Minds: The Impact of Tablets, Smartphones, and Books on Learning!

In two scheduled video chat sessions, your child will look at pictures of media devices, watch an educational video, and answer questions. We will learn how children’s digital media belief impacts their learning from digital media devices.

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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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Guess feelings over time!

Your child will hear stories about other children waiting to hear some important news. The person will then receive either positive, negative, or uncertain news. Your child will be asked to rate how the child in each story might feel at different time points using the emotion scale provided.

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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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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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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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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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Tell us about your health!

In this study that includes a short survey and which will be followed with a second study session, you will answer a few health-related and demographic questions about your child/children, and we will learn more about memory development.

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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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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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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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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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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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Talking to Robots!

Help us learn what kinds of things children want to share with robots and chatbots! Children who participate in this study will reflect on various experiences from their lives and choose whom they would rather tell about them: a robot/chatbot or another kid.

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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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Teaching and Social Influence

In a scheduled video call, we'll show your children videos of characters choosing between toys. We're interested in whether children learn better from characters whose choices are imitated by others.

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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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Re-engagement 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 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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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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Wheel of Fortune

In our study, your child will play a spinning wheel game and answer questions that help us learn how children respond to effort and control.

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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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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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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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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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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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To Help or Protect?

During this short Zoom study, a researcher will tell your child some stories about parents and their children. We ask if 4- and 5-year-olds expect parents to help their children with goals that are actually or seem to be safe or dangerous.

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Children's Understanding of Common Ground in Relationships

In a scheduled video call with a researcher, your child will watch some scenarios and answer questions about how the characters are interacting. We will learn about how children respond to under-informative communication, for example, asking someone to "pick the toy car" when there are four cars.

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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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What Do You Know About Categories?

Help us learn how children understand and categorize words in a scheduled live video call with a researcher. In this study, your child will read a story with you and make judgements about what categories different words belong to, and we will learn about how children conceptualize words.

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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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Do children understand the limits of knowledge?

Join us on Zoom to hear short stories and chat with a researcher! We are studying how children think about people who hold unusual or mistaken beliefs, especially when those beliefs come from having limited or different access to information.

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Let's Watch Youtube Kids

In this study, you and your daughter will watch a YouTube video and have a discussion about its content. In this study, you and your daughter will watch a short video from Youtube, have a conversation about the video, and respond to questions. We will learn how your daughter responds to advertising.

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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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