How do thoughts change our motivation and emotions? (Part II)

For 4.5- to 5-year-olds who speak English and have participated in "How Do Thoughts Change Our Motivation & Emotions" study before.

This session is the follow-up part of the study "How Do Thoughts Change Our Motivation & Emotions". In this session, your child will participate in a number game where they hear sequences of numbers and repeat them aloud in reverse order. They will also listen to three stories, each featuring two characters with differing beliefs or opinions about the same item. Your child will be asked questions about their thoughts on these differing thoughts.

We would like to explore how children use their short-term memory and understand other people's thoughts. Specifically, we aim to learn how children hold and process small amounts of information for a brief period in their mind, and how they recognize that people can have different perspectives or opinions about the same thing. As the follow-up study of "How Do Thoughts Change Our Motivation & Emotions", this session will help us investigate how these abilities develop with age and how they relate to children’s understanding of motivation.

20 minutes

We will send you a $5 Amazon gift card (used on Amazon US only) after your participation within 2 weeks. To be eligible for this compensation, your child needs to fit our participation eligibility, the child’s legal guardian needs to provide a valid consent for participation, the child must be visible in the consent video, and the child must have participated in "How Do Thoughts Change Our Motivation & Emotions" study. Additionally, the child must not have participated in this current study before.