Thinking about Thinking

For 6- to 10-year-olds.

Please note that if you have participated in the Developing Intellectual Humility study with New York University, you are not eligible for Thinking about Thinking.

This study will take place on a video call, live with a researcher! Clicking on the “Participate Now!” button will send you to an online calendar where you can select a date and time that works for you. During the session, a researcher will ask your child questions about thinking and learning. These include questions describing their own thinking and their judgments about what other people know. You will also be asked to complete questionnaires about your child and yourself, including questions about ways of thinking about your own and others’ knowledge.

We are investigating how children’s thinking about what they already know as well as their thinking about learning new information changes as they get older. We are also interested in what factors shape that development, so we ask caregivers to tell us about the child too. Our goal is to develop a survey tool to measure how children around the world think about knowledge and learning. This survey tool could then be used to develop better ways of supporting children's learning as they grow.

20 minutes

Families of child participants will be compensated with a $5 e-gift card to Amazon.com. To receive compensation, the child must be within the age range, be able to hear the experimenter and follow verbal instructions, and be visible during the duration of the experiment. Caregivers will receive an additional $5 Amazon gift card for completing the caregiver questionnaires contingent on the child’s participation. (If the child does not participate, caregivers will not receive the bonus gift card.) Gift cards will be sent via email within one week of participation. A child may only participate in this study once.