Lehigh University Child Development Research Group

07/05/2023

Dear parents! A new study that's conducted by the Cognitive Development Lab at Lehigh University is now recruiting families that have children who are aged 2 to 3 years old (anyone who just turned 2 years old or has not turned 4 years old yet will be eligible)!

The study involves a parent reading a fun animal picture book with their child on Zoom. Children will get a customized certificate of completion!

To contact us: [email protected]
To sign up: https://calendly.com/childdevelopment/learning-from-parent-child-interactions

Our research is made possible by parents like you. We hope that you and your family will join us in exploring how children think, learn, and grow. Studies FAQs Sign Up Directions Here’s what we are currently exploring. Learning from Parent-Child Interactions 2- & 3-year-olds and their Parents   T...

06/14/2023

Hello friends! We will be at the farmers' market at Bethlehem tomorrow from 10am to 1pm! Come and visit us to learn more about our latest studies as well as enjoy some art and craft activities! We are looking forward to seeing you tomorrow!

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Now that the smoke has cleared, we’re excited to spend another Thursday with you at Farrington Square, enjoying live music and all the goodness our vendors have to offer. According to the calendar, Father’s Day is coming up on June 18th, and the market has lots of great options to help you celeb...

06/10/2023

Dear parents! A new study that's conducted by the Cognitive Development Lab at Lehigh University is now recruiting families that have children who are aged 2 to 3 years old (anyone who just turned 2 or has not turned 4 will be eligible)!

The study involves a parent reading a fun animal picture book with their child. Children who participate in person in our lab at Lehigh will get a small prize and children who participate on Zoom will get a customized certificate of completion!

To learn more: https://wordpress.lehigh.edu/incdrg/for-parents/
To sign up: https://calendly.com/childdevelopment/learning-from-parent-child-interactions

Our research is made possible by parents like you. We hope that you and your family will join us in exploring how children think, learn, and grow. Studies FAQs Sign Up Directions Here’s what we are currently exploring. Learning from Parent-Child Interactions 2- & 3-year-olds and their Parents   T...

03/22/2022

Hi everyone! Caitlin Lindley, a Ph.D. student in the Child Development Research Group, is recruiting 4- and 5-year-olds for her dissertation. This study is fully virtual and designed to be engaging for children!

Feel free to contact Caitlin with any questions ([email protected]).

You can click the link below or scan the QR code to learn more and sign up to participate!

https://lehigh.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8CvqfkOFTvGnApM

04/29/2020

The Lehigh Child Development lab is currently looking for children ages 7 to 8 or 11 to 12 to take part in an online study about how children feel and react when they see others having conflicts at school.

Families will talk to the researcher over Zoom while completing an online survey. Children will watch three short videos of conflicts in a school setting, and then answer questions about how the videos made them feel. They will also do a short picture sorting task where they can assign different items to the characters from the videos. Parents will be asked to fill out brief questionnaires about their children’s personalities.

As thanks for taking part in the study, families will receive a $10 Amazon digital gift card. The study takes about 20 to 30 minutes to complete.

Please contact [email protected] if you are interested in taking part!

06/09/2018

We had a wonderful afternoon sharing our research with Lehigh alumni!

06/06/2018

Psychology can offer some easy tips for making your child's next trip to the doctor a little less anxiety-inducing and even help them perceive shots as less painful!

Does your child hate their visits to the pediatrician? Do they psyche themselves into a panic that the shot will hurt? The best strategy to calm an anxious child may be to reframe their expectations.

04/30/2018

Anyone who spends time with children knows that they can make some surprising errors in their reasoning. This article discusses one type of error in particular; children are biased toward positive information. Check out the article to learn more about how this positivity bias impacts children's thinking and how it changes over time.

Human beings seem to be born wearing rose-colored glasses. Psychologists are interested in how this bias toward the positive works in the very young – and how it fades over time.

04/19/2018

New research suggests the benefits of reading aloud to children go beyond fostering early literacy and cognitive development; the way parents interact with children while reading also helps to foster children's developing social skills. Just one more reason to pick up a book!

Reading aloud and playing imaginative games may help children deal with emotions like anger and sadness, researchers say.

03/12/2018

For many years, researchers have emphasized the importance of exposing children to rich language at an early age. However, new research suggests that talking with children (and not just to them) may be even more important for supporting language skills and cognitive development. Check out this article to learn more about this cool study!

More than 20 years ago, psychologists Betty Hart and Todd Risley discovered what they called the “30 million word gap.” Through family visits, they estimated that children under 4 from lower-income families heard a staggering 30 million fewer words than children from higher-income families. That...

02/06/2018

Have you ever wondered what your baby is really capable of thinking and feeling? This article discusses the fascinating ways researchers study what's goes on in babies' minds and what researchers have discovered about babies' cognition and emotions.

Their facial muscles work fine, but the neural networks that let them recognize the feeling of happiness take a while to develop 

01/25/2018

The positive impact of helping others may extend further than you might guess! New research suggests that helping others (and especially helping strangers) is related to higher self-esteem in teens, and the positive impact remains over time!

Adolescents are under more pressure than ever, and many suffer from depression and anxiety. But new research suggests that volunteering to help strangers makes them feel better about themselves.