The Malleability of Social Group Understanding in Infancy and Early Childhood
University of California Santa Cruz
Summary
The study will assess if toddlers show differences in stranger wariness according to race, temperament, social network diversity, and neighborhood diversity.
Description
This study is investigating 13- to 24-month-old toddlers' reactions to meeting new people from familiar and unfamiliar racial backgrounds! Participation involves a 1-hour one-time visit to the researcher's lab, located on the UC Santa Cruz campus. The study itself will take about 20 minutes, but will ask for a 1-hour visit to make sure child participants feel comfortable in the new space. The study will video record as child participants interact with two adults, who will play with the child and offer toys. Parent participants will also be asked to complete two surveys, one demographic survey…
Eligibility
- Age range
- 1–2 years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Not specified
Inclusion Criteria: * typically developing * age 13-24 months Exclusion Criteria: \- any known developmental delays
Interventions
- BehavioralChildren's stranger wariness response to strangers
Children will see two strangers, one from a familiar racial background and one from an unfamiliar racial background. Familiar race stranger will be from the same racial background as the child's caregiver and unfamiliar race stranger will not.
Location
- Social Science 2 BuildingSanta Cruz, California