Social Development Lab Waterloo

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Toddlers and Preschoolers Understand That Some Preferences Are More Subjective Than Others Four experiments examined Canadian 2- to 3-year-old children’s (N = 224; 104 girls, 120 boys) thoughts about shared preferences. Children saw sets of items, and identified theirs and another person’s...

The Social Development Lab in the Department of Psychology at the University of Waterloo is seeking parents of children 6 – 8 years old currently living in Ontario to contribute to an online study in which we are examining the associations between children’s contact with peers and their everyday emotions and behaviours during the pandemic. This study will include a series of online questionnaires over the span of 3 month. This study has been reviewed and has received ethics clearance through the University of Waterloo Research Ethics Board. You will be asked to complete a short set of online questionnaires once a month for the next 3 months. Each online session will take approximately 20 minutes.

Eligibility
Participants must be a parent/guardian of a child who is 6 to 8 years of age.

What will you be asked to do?
Participants will be asked to complete an online questionnaire about their child’s typical behaviours and emotions and their own experiences over the past month. In the first session, you will be asked to complete a consent form followed by questions about family demographics and a series of questions about your child’s daily activities over the past month. In the second and third sessions (approximately 1 month and 2 months from the first session), you will be asked to complete only the consent form and the measures about your child’s daily activities, their typical behaviours, and emotions and your own experiences.

Remuneration
Following each online session, you will be remunerated with a $10 Amazon gift card by e-mail (for a total of $30 by the end of the study).

Confidentiality
All of the personal information we collect is considered strictly confidential and individual results will not be shared with anyone, nor will names be written on any data.

TO PARTICIPATE OR LEARN MORE ABOUT THE STUDY E-MAIL CONNIE YE AT sdl@uwaterloo

Will our kids be alright? Join University of Waterloo Faculty of Arts researchers, in partnership with Kitchener Public Library, to explore the short and long-term social and developmental consequences of , and how we can deal with the effects.

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New paper out from our Shyness and Executive Functions Study. Send us a DM if you're interested in more! Thank you to all of our participants and families!