People’s Sticker Choices
This game is for… children 2, 3, and 4 years of age who speak English at home!
Location: Online
Duration: ~30 minutes
Description: In everyday life, we say things like “if the weather’s nice tomorrow, we’ll go hiking.” We use “if” to talk about things that may happen and how we may react to them. Do children think about and act upon those possibilities in the same way as adults?
We have created an online game to explore this question. In this game, children will decide who said a specific sentence. For example, “If I get a blue sticker, I’m gonna put it on myself.”
Learn More/ Sign Up: http://calendly.com/blt-lab/stickers
Parent-Child Interaction and Causal Thinking
This game is for... children 3-4 years of age, speaks and understands English
Location: In-Person at Our Lab
Duration: ~10 minutes
Description: This study looks at how parents’ interactions with their children affect how their children understand causality. You and your child will be shown a set of blocks to play with wherein some blocks make a machine go and others do not. Your child will answer questions as to what blocks might or might not have caused a machine to turn on. At the end, your child will get some toys as a prize for participating.
Learn More/ Sign Up: https://calendly.com/candmlab/appointment
Which One is it?
This game is for... For children ages 3-5 years who speak English at home!
Location: Online
Duration: ~30 minutes
Description:
As adults when we hear a sentence like “can you give me that apple?”, we do not only understand that we should give an apple, but also that the requester has a particular apple in mind. On the other hand, when we use a sentence like “can you give me an apple?”, it feels like any apple would do. Are children sensitive to this difference?
We have created an online game where children can help cartoon characters by giving them the objects the characters ask for. In some cases the characters have a particular object in mind (for instance when they are asking for “that apple”), and sometimes any object would do (when they are asking “an apple”).
Learn More/ Sign Up: https://calendly.com/blt-lab/triota
Animal Study
This game is for... children ages 3, 4, and 5 years who can speak and understand English
Location: In-Person at Our Lab
Duration: ~30 minutes
Description: This study looks at how young children learn about categories of animals. Your child will play a sorting game with a set of animal cards. At the end, your child will get a small toy as a ‘thank you’ for playing our game.
Learn More/ Sign Up: https://calendly.com/cocodev-lab/animals
Reach Tracking Studies
This game is for... children 4-8 years of age, speaks and understands English
Location: In-Person at Our Lab
Duration: ~1 hour
Description: These series of studies look at children’s cognition of fairness, social cues, risk taking, and abilities to determine other minds. Your child will play games on a large screen where they will reach to the screen. They will have to decide how to accrue or share resources and how to adapt to social signals. During some studies, your child’s decisions determine how many stickers they will receive, and at the end, your child will get some toys as a prize.
Learn More/ Sign Up: https://calendly.com/candmlab/appointment
Backwards Blocking
This game is for... children 5-6 years of age, speaks and understands English
Location: Online or In-Person at Our Lab
Duration: ~10 minutes
Description: This study looks at children’s understanding of causality. Your child will watch a video on a screen and answer questions as to what toys might or might not have caused a machine to turn on. At the end, your child will get some toys as a prize for participating.
Learn More/ Sign Up: https://calendly.com/candmlab/appointment
Shifting Gears
This game is for... children 5-7 years of age, speaks and understands English
Location: In-Person at Our Lab
Duration: 15-20 minutes
Description: For this visit, your child will take part in a decision-making study in which they will construct a gear toy with a researcher. Children’s choices throughout this game can tell us more about how they problem-solve in their everyday lives. This game takes approximately 15-20 minutes.
Learn More/ Sign Up: https://calendly.com/candm-lab/research-games
Fruit Ratings Study
This game is for... For children ages 5 and 7 years who and understand English
Location: In-Person at Our Lab
Duration: ~20 minutes
Description: This study is looking at how 5- and 7-year-old children learn about categories. This study involves playing a game on a tablet device (iPad). Your child will hear a story about a robot who is learning to draw different kinds of fruits. They will see drawings of fruits on the screen and be asked to rate how accurate the drawings are.
After the study, your child will receive a prize for participating in the form of a small toy.
Learn More/ Sign Up: https://calendly.com/cocodev-lab/fruit
Taxman
This game is for... children 8-9 years of age, speaks and understands English
Location: Online or In-Person at Our Lab
Duration: ~10 minutes
Description: This study looks at children’s understanding of fairness in resource accrual and distribution. Your child will be shown a series of photos with different amounts of resources and asked questions about how to use those resources. At the end, your child will get some toys as a prize for participating.
Learn More/ Sign Up: https://calendly.com/candmlab/appointment
Gardening Study
This game is for… children and adolescents ages 10-17 years old.
Location: Online
Duration: ~1.5 hours
Description: We study the how individuals are motivated, make decisions, and how they make decisions when the decisions require effort. We are recruiting paid volunteers for online computer-based experiments involving choice and cognition. To participate, your child must be 10-17 years old. The study is completed online and takes about 1.5 hours. During the study, your child would play a game on the computer and answer some questionnaires. Your child would be paid $10/hour for participating in this study.
Learn More/ Sign Up: https://brown.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4VC6n62IhB7UY3s