Conducting developmental research online vs. in-person: A meta-analysis

A Chuey, V Boyce, A Cao, MC Frank - Open Mind, 2024 - direct.mit.edu
An increasing number of psychological experiments with children are being conducted
using online platforms, in part due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Individual replications have …

Tokens of virtue: Replicating incentivized measures of children's prosocial behavior with online methods and virtual resources

RE Ahl, K Hannan, D Amir, A Baker, M Sheskin… - Cognitive …, 2023 - Elsevier
Desirable resources are crucial for incentivized tasks of prosocial behavior.
Developmentalists have often used tangible items, such as candy or stickers, as the …

Intersensory redundancy impedes face recognition in 12-month-old infants

A Bursalıoğlu, A Michalak, MW Guy - Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
This study examined the role of intersensory redundancy on 12-month-old infants' attention
to and processing of face stimuli. Two experiments were conducted. In Experiment 1, 72 12 …

Online testing in developmental science: A guide to design and implementation

L Zaadnoordijk, R Cusack - Advances in child development and behavior, 2022 - Elsevier
At present, most developmental psychology experiments use participants from a mere
subsection of the world's population. Moreover, like other fields of psychology, many studies …

When I move, you move: Associations between automatic and person-coded measures of infant-mother synchrony during free-play using virtual in-home data …

J Hammack, M Sharma, L Riera-Gomez… - Infant Behavior and …, 2023 - Elsevier
The relationship between movement synchrony and global scores of behavioral synchrony
were investigated during a naturalistic free-play between 33 infants (ages 12-to 24-months) …

The preference and development for societal-type cues in 3-to 8-year-olds' perception of groups

Y WANG, F WEN, B ZUO - Acta Psychologica Sinica, 2023 - journal.psych.ac.cn
Perception of groups develops from an early age. Previous studies focused on groups with
perceptual-salient cues like gender and race. As highlighted in the intuitive theories of social …

Does appearance affect children's selective trust in robots' social and emotional testimony?

X Cao, Y Wu, M Nielsen, F Wang - Journal of Applied Developmental …, 2025 - Elsevier
Robots are increasingly influencing young children's lives. However, little is known about
their human-like appearance affects children's trust in robot-provided information. Study 1 …

“Plan chunking” expands 3‐year‐olds' ability to complete multiple‐step plans

TL Blankenship, MM Kibbe - Child Development, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The ability to use knowledge to guide the completion of goals is a critical cognitive skill, but 3‐
year‐olds struggle to complete goals that require multiple steps. This study asked whether 3 …

What's in the box? Preschoolers consider ambiguity, expected value, and information for future decisions in explore-exploit tasks

E Lapidow, E Bonawitz - Open Mind, 2023 - direct.mit.edu
Self-directed exploration in childhood appears driven by a desire to resolve uncertainties in
order to learn more about the world. However, in adult decision-making, the choice to …

A survey on the challenges, limitations, and opportunities of online testing of infants and young children during the COVID-19 pandemic: Using our experiences to …

MJ Shore, DL Bukovsky, SGV Pinheiro… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
In developmental psychology, the widespread adoption of new methods for testing children
does not typically occur over a matter of months. Yet, the COVID-19 pandemic and its …