Abby needs help picking out toys!

3- to 4-year-old children who are currently residing in the United States

This study will take place on Zoom, live with researchers! 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.

Your child will play a toy-picking game with a researcher where they will be asked to select toys for a researcher to keep. Before your child plays the toy-picking game, a different researcher will express an emotion towards the toys.

We will also ask you to fill in some demographic questions before your scheduled Zoom session.

Emotion generalization occurs when children use previously learned emotional knowledge and apply the information to a different context. Past research on young children’s emotion generalization across people have reported that certain discrete emotion (i.e., disgust) generalize across people.

This study aims to investigate whether children generalize discrete emotions (e.g., fear, joy, sadness) about toys across different people. Prior work on this topic has not compared emotion generalization between discrete emotions.

30 minutes

To thank you for your interest and participation with us, you will receive a $5 Amazon.com gift voucher. Prior to our meeting, we will send you a survey link that includes the consent form, and a brief demographic questionnaire.

After the Zoom session, the researcher will immediately email the Amazon.com gift card.

Note that, participants must be (1) within the specified age-range (between 3 and 4 years); (2), present and visible during the duration of the study process and (3) currently residing within the USA to receive compensation.

Each child is eligible to participate in the study and receive compensation once. We will send a compensation even if you do not finish the whole study or we are not able to use your child's data.