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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GARDEN Feedback Survey for Parents and Caregivers

In this Project GARDEN survey, you (the caregiver) will complete a 5-minute survey to help us learn how to best support families participating in online research in the future.

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Let's learn how to dax!

How does under-representation contribute to children's self image? In this study, your child will learn a new activity and try out for a special club. Your participation will help us learn how representation shapes children's gender stereotypes and self-perception in elite groups.

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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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Children's beliefs about group inequality in a made-up world

Help us learn about how different descriptions of groups might help children better understand their social world.

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Blue dots, yellow dots!

In this study, your child will learn a new activity and try out for a special club! Your child will answer some questions afterwards. Your participation will help us learn how children reason about acceptance and rejection!

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How will people act?

Your child will be introduced to some kids at a new school, and we'll ask them to guess how the kids will behave toward one another - sometimes, we will ask about mean behaviors, and sometimes, we will ask about nice behaviors.

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Help us learn the names of new toys!!

In this study that is completed on a computer with headphones, your child will see pictures of toys and choose different people to teach them the names of the toys, and we will learn about who children like to learn from when learning language.

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Thinking About the Past and the Future

This study focuses on how children remember their experiences from the COVID-19 pandemic and how they think about their country’s future.

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How can that be?

In this Project GARDEN study, your child will answer some riddles, then play a ball drop game.

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Understanding Helping Behaviors

How do children (ages 3 – 5) think about helpful behaviors and those who do not help?

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Thinking About New People

In this Project GARDEN study, your child will see images of different children and will be asked questions about them.

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Catch The Ball

In this study, your child will see a ball falling through some obstacles and will try to make sure the ball lands on a cushion. When the ball lands on a cushion, something cool happens!

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Learn From Stories

Your child will hear some stories containing some questions and some responses. Then, your child will make judgments about the responses they heard from the stories.

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Talking About Animals

Your child will answer some questions about pets, animals, plants, and objects.

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Join Andy, Suzy, Sophia, and Bobby on a Wondrous Adventure

In this study, your child will view two digital 'storybooks' featuring two stories about Suzy, Andy, Sophia, and Bobby. We are interested in how children use causal verbs in language and how they think about causation and responsibility.

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Learning about different teachers!

Your child will participate in two games that will help us learn about teachers! In the first game, your child will watch learn about teachers, then tell us what they think about them. In the second game, your child will learn about cool new toys, then have a chance to play with them, too!

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Teaching and Perspective-Taking

In a scheduled video call with a researcher, your child will (i) answer some questions about what people can see and (ii) show pictures or books to you and to the researcher. We will learn about how children think about others’ perspectives while communicating.

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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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Guess What The Teacher Will Do!

Your child will see and hear stories about students in a classroom! In each story, teachers will assign students in their classrooms to different after school clubs, like an “engineering club” and a “story club”. Your child will tell us how much they like or don’t like...

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Which wub knows how to make the toy ring?

Your child will view friendly creatures (wubs) interact with a cool toy, and they will be asked which one knows how to activate it.

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Who will give the right answer?

In this GARDEN study, in a scheduled Zoom session, your child will decide whether a zookeeper, a person Googling, or a new voice assistant named “Kita” can give the right answer to questions about unusual animals! You will also fill out a short survey when scheduling your child's appointment.

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Imagine That!

In this Project GARDEN study, your child will hear a few stories, imagine various things, and answer questions. For example, your child might be asked to imagine a scenario and answer questions about what they imagined or answer questions about whether different things are living and take up space!

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What's in a Face?

During this 15-20 minute study, your child will see faces and answer questions about these faces such as "Which person is really smart/nice?". We will also play a series of beeps and ask children to identify the number of beeps they hear.

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What Happens Now?

In this Project GARDEN study, your child will watch videos of different situations, answer questions about them, and we will learn about how children make social inferences.

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Game Boxes!

In this study, your child will play with multiple games, and will rate how much they like each game.

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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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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 5 and 6-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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Spot the Difference!

Your child will play spot-the-difference games! In each spot-the-difference game, your child will be presented with two pictures and they will try to find the differences between them. Some of the games will be harder than others...

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How do they feel?

Your child will hear short stories about people experiencing an event, and will be asked to predict how the people feel. For example, they will hear a story about a girl wanting a snack. They will be asked, "How does Kate feel?" and they can respond using the happy face scale provided.

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Join Andy, Suzy, Sophia, and Bobby on a Wondrous Trip

In this study, your child will view two digital 'storybooks' featuring two stories about Suzy, Andy, Sophia, and Bobby. We are interested in how children use causal verbs in language and how they think about causation and responsibility.

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Let's Play Trivia!

In this scheduled study with a researcher, your child will play a trivia game with either you (the parent) or another adult (assigned by the researcher), then you will both complete a questionnaire. ONLY 1 child per family may participate in this study.

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The Alien Language Game

Help us learn more about how children use information from their environment to learn language! In a live Skype call, your child will be presented with an Alien Language and will be tested on how well they learn it.

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How Kids View Jobs

This study will take place on a video call with a live 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 this 10-15 minute study, your child will listen to different job descriptions and answer...

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Does this thing that’s not mine *feel* like it’s mine?

In this scheduled video chat with a researcher, your child will learn about different objects that will be described as belonging to them or someone else, and we will learn how children think about ownership. You will also complete a parent survey as a part of this study.

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Let's go to Sunny School!

In this study, your child will hear a story about a fictional school and the students at school! Your child will answer some questions afterwards about what they think about the characters in the story. Your participation will help us learn how children think about inclusion!

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Guess What Happens Next

In this study, your child will watch a video of a person interacting with an AI voice assistant or another person and then guess what happens next. They will also listen to a story about snack time in a classroom and again guess what happens next. It will take about 15-20 minutes.

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Do children expect helpers to be nice?

In a live video call with a researcher, your child will hear a short story about a protagonist who chooses to help or not help someone else. We will then ask your child whether they think the protagonist will help a different person in new situations.

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Let’s find causes!

Help us determine whether we can make children better causal reasoners. In this study, your child will interact with a machine that lights up and plays music and then answer some questions.

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What do you think about other children's friends?

In this scheduled Zoom call, your child will sort pictures of children in different ways. Then your child will hear different scenarios where another child has chosen different friends and will be asked questions to assess how children think about others' friendship choices.

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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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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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Match the Machines!

This study will take place on a video call, live with a researcher!

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The Princess and Thief Treasure Hunt

This study will take place on a Zoom 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.

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Spirituality and Emotional Well-Being

In this study, your child will fill out several questionnaires about their life. They will be asked about topics such as spirituality, religiosity, and well-being.

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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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Introduction to Project GARDEN Phase 2!

This is a 5-minute introduction video to Project GARDEN Phase 2, a series of 8 studies for 3- ,4- , 5- , 6-, and 7-year-old children and their caregivers. This video will overview how the Phase 2 works and answer frequently asked questions. You must complete this before starting the Phase 2 studies.

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How do children interpret sentences?

In this video chat, we are studying how children make decisions about how to interpret sentences and about what sentence structure to use by playing a picture-matching game with a puppet.

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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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Are percentages hard? Help make them easier!

In this study, your child will first take a short test on percentages. Then, they will watch two short videos about percentages. After that, they will take the same test again to see if they learned more. All tasks must be done on a computer, not a phone or tablet. Pencil and paper required.

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Guess the Friend!

In this scheduled video chat with a researcher, your child will a series of videos about three people, and we will learn how children understand friendship.

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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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