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For 5- to 6-year-olds

In our study, your child will watch a brief animated video and answer a few questions. The video will introduce characters and describe a situation, and then your child will be asked about which characters are causally responsible for the outcomes.

The purpose of our study is to examine how children reason about causal roles, particularly in situations that involve mental states, like emotions. We are specifically interested in how intuitions manifest in cases with multiple causal agents, as well as those in which an agent's lack of action leads to the outcome in question. In this study, we are looking at cases involving causal chains; wherein one agent's action affects another agent and that plays a causal role in the outcome. This will help us learn more about how children interpret causes and responsibility in situations where multiple actors are involved.

10 minutes

You will receive a $5 Amazon.com gift card for participating in this study. To be eligible for the gift card, your child must be in the age range for this study and your child needs to be visible in the study video. Please also note that you must submit a valid consent statement. Each child is eligible to participate in the study and receive a gift card only once. Gift cards will be sent within one week of study completion.