Let's look at block pyramids!

For 6 year olds

In this study, your child will watch a brief video showing two teachers working with their students on building block pyramids and offering help. One teacher will offer help to everyone, and the other teacher will offer help to children who do not succeed on their own. Following the video, they will be asked which student really needed help.

Young children often believe students who are offered help on a task may be less competent than those who are not. But less is known about whether children also weigh information about the helper (e.g., whether the helper helps everyone) when making judgments of help recipients. In this study, we examine whether young children track how a teacher offers help (offering it only to students who fail vs. offering it to everyone) and whether they use this information to judge who "really needs help." Through this research, we hope to better understand what guides children's competence inferences of help recipients and whether they incorporate information about the helper when making these inferences.

5 minutes

You will receive a $5 Amazon.com gift card as a token of appreciation for participating in this study. We will message you the gift card redemption link within a week. To be eligible for the gift card, your child must be in the age range for this game, you need to submit a valid consent statement, and your child needs to be visible during the game. Unfortunately, we are only able to provide gift cards to participants from the United States. You can only receive compensation for participating once per child; if your child participates again you will not be compensated. But we will send a gift card even if you do not finish the whole game or we are not able to use your child's data.