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Child Study Centre


Now offering online studies!

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The Child Study Centre at the University of Toronto St. George campus
is a group of research labs devoted to studying various aspects of developmental psychology.
Collectively, we study the cognitive, moral, linguistic, and social development of children.

The Child Study Centre consists of six distinct research labs, each of which is headed by a different faculty member in the Department of Psychology at the University of Toronto St. George campus. Our labs are the intellectual home to researchers at all levels, including aspiring undergraduate students as well as graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. These teams work together to make our research possible. Each lab group is unique – we are all interested in understanding different aspects about how infants, kids, and teens think and act.
Read on to learn more about the research interests of each of our lab groups!

LAND Lab

StarLab

TECL

BML

MDL

You can participate in some of our current studies, for kids from 1 to 11 years old!

How do children learn and explore?
This study looks at the unique ways children explore, and how this affects what information they remember.
How do children use probabilities?
This study looks at children’s ability to learn and remember probabilities, and how they use this information to make decisions.
What will I be like as a grown up?
This study asks how children think they will change when they become grown-ups.
How do fair people act?
This study investigates how children understand fair and unfair scenarios, helping and hindering situations, and how this influences their social behavior.
Can you tell who’s the parent?
This study investigates how preschoolers use emotional cues, such as jealousy and altruism, to infer kinship between parents and children.
That was hard!
We want to find out if children use aspects such as time as a heuristic for effort and how that affects the way they value things.
Do people change?
Can a mean person become nice? This study asks if children think childhood personality traits can change in adulthood.
You’re a great helper!
This study explores how children understand emotions, and how their understanding influences their helping.
Are people who are fair also helpful and trustworthy?
This study investigates how babies think of fairness, and how it can relate to other behaviours such as helping and trust.
How do children understand generosity?
This study looks at how children view the generosity of others in different scenarios, and how this differs from adults.
What information do children look at?
This study looks at children’s ability to learn about the different types of information they see in the world around them.
How do we solve puzzles?
This study investigates how social context affects children’s attempts to solve a puzzle, as well as how these attempts may differ from adults.
What’s fair?
This study asks how children think about fairness and how they would fix inequalities if it were up to them.
How much have I changed?
We want to know whether children think their preferences and values have changed since the previous year and whether they think they will continue to change next year.
That’s impossible!
Could a person ever grow a tail, or have a pet unicorn? We’re curious to find out how children make judgments about possible, impossible and improbable events.

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