Studies with Children

Have you ever wondered how your child grows? How your child thinks? Remembers? Feels? How your child moves from one stage to the next? Researchers in the Child Research Group at Emory University’s Psychology Department are interested in these and many other aspects of infant and child development.

We would like you and your children to participate in our studies. Research teams in our group are regularly starting new projects involving children, age twelve and under, as well as women who are pregnant. Some of our on-going studies involve having your child interact with different types of toys, while other studies involve having you or an experimenter interact with your child. Some studies also involve interviews or questionnaires for the parents or prospective parents. Most of our studies are brief and take place at Emory University where parking is free and convenient.

We hope you are interested in helping us learn more about early infant and child development; however, indicating you are interested will not obligate you to participate in a study. Your response simply allows us to contact you with the details of a specific study. Because our projects focus on infants and children at particular ages, several months may pass before we contact you. If you are currently pregnant, and you are interested in participating in a study during your pregnancy, we invite you to contact us as soon as possible.

If you are interested in participating, or if you have questions, please email Lisa Allen at ljallen@emory.edu, or call us at 404-727-7432.