Children's Representational Development Lab - CRDL

Welcome back to: Fun facts about saving! ✨

Did you know that three-year-old children benefit from being given the opportunity to budget in saving tasks?! 🙌 (Kamawar et al., 2019; Jerome et al., 2023).

Please visit our website crdl.ca for the full references!

Welcome back to: Fun Facts About Saving ✨

Research has shown that children are more likely to save if they have already experienced the saving task!
This suggests that children are able to benefit from experience when it comes to saving a limited resource. 🍬⭐️

Please visit our website crdl.ca for the full references!

Welcome back to: Fun facts about saving! ✨

Did you know that research has shown that children as young as 3-years-old can save BOTH a representation of a resource (for example, saving something that represents the thing you want to get, like using a ticket 🎟️ for a ride at an amusement park 🎢 ; Dueck et al., 2019; Jerome et al., 2023) and a resource itself (for example, saving an item itself to use for later, like saving half of a cupcake for later rather than eating the whole thing now 🧁 ; Metcalf & Atance, 2011; Atance et al., 2017; Kamawar et al., 2019)!

Please visit our website crdl.ca for the full references!

CRDL presents our new series: Fun facts about saving! ✨

Full reference: Metcalf, J. L., & Atance, C. M. (2011). Do preschoolers save to benefit their future selves? Cognitive Development, 26, 371–382. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2011.09.003

We are still recruiting for our online studies! Email us at [email protected] for more information and to sign up!

We are excited to announce that the Children’s Representational Development Lab will be presenting our research at the Development 2022 Conference, a Canadian conference on developmental psychology! Congratulations to all of our presenters and authors:

Children’s understanding of intention and its expression in language: Emma Jameson, Kenda Parsons, Vivian Rigg, Hana Ziani-Bey, Budyanee De Sousa Siriwardene, & Deepthi Kamawar

Metacognition and knowledge change across time: Hana Ziani-Bey*, Vivian Rigg*, Kenda Parsons, Della Boudreau, Ellen Doucet, Jaida Brown, & Deepthi Kamawar

Preschoolers’ temporal cognition: Kenda Parsons, Vivian Rigg, Hana Ziani-Bey, Cassy Shrimpton, Ellen Doucet, Adrianna Spoerel-Connelly, Ronessa Dass, Brooke Smith, & Deepthi Kamawar

Let's talk about saving: How parents help young children's understanding that it is good to save: Lojain Hamwi*, Adrianna Spoerel-Connelly*, Vivian Rigg, Kenda Parsons, Hana Ziani-Bey, & Deepthi Kamawar

The effects of budgeting and psychological distance on young children’s saving performance: Emily Jerome & Deepthi Kamawar

If you are interested in learning more about our research, please message us or send us an email at [email protected]

We are now recruiting 4- to 6-year-old children for a new study in our lab looking at how children think about the future! Please email [email protected] with 'Thinking About the Future' in the subject line if you are interested in participating or for more information!