Welcome!
We are a team of researchers in the Yale Department of Psychology dedicated to studying how infants and children think and learn as they grow and develop.
We invite families to participate in our fun research studies in our welcoming lab space in downtown New Haven, at local museums and schools, and online. Our studies are enjoyable for children and parents, and your participation will help us learn more about child development!
Our Research
In our research studies, we aim to answer questions like how children think about fairness, how infants infer what other people like or dislike, how and when children decide to persist through challenges, and how even infants can understand abstract ideas.
Our research studies are designed to be fun and interactive games for children. They may consist of brief stories or simple puppet shows, and children talk to us about what they saw. Our research is not designed to "test" children in tasks that have right or wrong answers, but simply to uncover how children think about themselves and the world! To learn about some of our discoveries, please see our Discoveries page.
Would you like to be contacted about opportunities to participate in our research studies?
Get Involved
We have active partnerships with museums in Connecticut, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, where we conduct our studies and share our research with the public. These partnerships are based on the "Living Labs" model in which science education is enhanced via active participation in the research process.
We partner with schools across Connecticut to run our studies in classrooms and offer workshops for parents and teachers to learn more about developmental psychology.
We invite families to participate in studies in our lab in downtown New Haven as well as online via Zoom and Lookit.