Children’s Comprehension of “We”
We are studying the development of inclusive language in children. Specifically, we are looking at how children develop an understanding of the word “we” when the referents of the pronoun are ambiguous. When a person uses the word “we” in a group, it can be unclear who they are referring to (just me and the speaker? just the speaker and the others in the group? me, everyone else in the group, and the speaker?). This study attempts to answer these questions by seeing how kids naturally interpret the word when it’s unclear who is being referred to.
This study is conducted over Zoom.
We are currently recruiting children of the following ages to participate in this study: 2.5 years olds, 3.5 year olds
Prosocial Signaling
We are studying how and when children choose to show when they act prosocially towards another. To do this, children will play with some puppets and then will have the opportunity to help the puppets.
This study is conducted over Zoom.
We are currently recruiting children of the following ages to participate in this study: 3 year olds
Prosocial Intentions
We are looking at how children understand intentions behind a prosocial action. To do this, we play games with puppets and then ask children to answer some questions to help plan a playdate.
This study is conducted over Zoom.
We are currently recruiting children of the following ages to participate in this study: 5 year olds
Moral Reasoning
We aim to investigate what particular aspects of social experience help promote children’s reasoning. To do this, we will experimentally provide children with different kinds of social experiences and see whether those different experiences lead to different outcomes in children’s reasoning performance.
This study is conducted over Zoom.
We are currently recruiting children of the following ages to participate in this study: 3.5 – 5.5 year olds
Norm Creation and Enforcement
We are studying how children create and understand rules. To do this, children create rules and play games with puppets.
This study is conducted over Zoom (with 3 year olds) and in person (with 5 year olds).
We are currently recruiting children of the following ages to participate in this study: 3 year olds & 5 year olds
