Quick LL post

[kirisutogomen]

The question has been posed about whether there are Living Laboratory activities occurring on weekends. There are, but I am not as familiar with that research, as they take place in the Discovery Center and tend to focus on children younger than the participants we see upstairs. It is, however, more convenient, and also pretty interesting research.

(For the Living Laboratory, "morning" means 1000-1300, and "afternoon" means 1300-1600.)

Saturday mornings and afternoons in the Discovery Center

Dr. Kathleen Corriveau and a couple of undergrad doobies. In her own words:

I am interested in how children learn information from other people. In particular, my studies have focused on the cues young children use when determining whether or not an informant (or a group of informants) is trustworthy. I am currently examining various verbal and nonverbal cues such as accuracy, familiarity, emotional relationship as well as the extent to which children are simply conforming to the majority viewpoint.

Dr. Corriveau presents her research better than I ever could here.

Sunday afternoons in the Discovery Center

Craig Smith, who coincidentally TA'ed a class I took a few years ago, plus his posse of PhD students and undergraduate doobies. In his own words:

I am currently studying how children think about the emotions associated with moral transgression, and their views on the emotional implications of various post-transgression behaviors such as apologizing, confessing, lying, and doing nothing. I am particularly focused on children's understanding of apology, and am collecting data on various aspects of this issue (e.g., felt versus displayed emotion during delivery, emotional impacts on victim and transgressor, influences of parental apology prompting, etc.). I am also studying children's engagement in various types of fantasy, and the links between fantasizing and aggressive behavior.

"Young children judge actions that cause hurt and distress – for example, hitting and stealing – to be morally wrong. Yet they typically expect a person who causes hurt and distress to feel fine – particularly if the person gets what they want as a result of their action. We are studying notable exceptions to this ‘remorse-free’ portrait of early childhood. For example, young children show considerable insight into the social and emotional functions of apology; they realize that when someone transgresses and then apologizes, the person feels badly about what they have done."

Here is a link to the Harris Lab where Corriveau and Smith work.

Comments

[twe.livejournal.com]

The weekend times look plausible to make, in fact I am looking for something to do with him after his nap next Saturday. How to I arrange something like that?

[chenoameg.livejournal.com]

I think you just show up and the scientists are in the Discovery center.

[kirisutogomen.livejournal.com]

There's really no arranging necessary; the researchers are camped out in the Discovery Center waiting for test subjects voluntary participants to wander through.

The weekend after Thanksgiving may not work, though; it's reasonably likely that the undergrad doobies are on vacation, so there may not be any researchers there that Saturday.

The Discovery Center is part of the museum, so you'd need general admission tickets, but I have some free passes, and with a little planning I could get them to you.

[twe.livejournal.com]

Passes would be great!

[mijven.livejournal.com]

BTW, meant to thank you for advising jaedian against the rescue movie. We made an impromptu visit up there for her eldest's birthday - but timing meant we had a school day off - so off to the museum we went! As mouse was doing a report on the Haiti earthquake for school, I was tempted... but he's also prone to nightmares off of visual input, so it probably wouldn't have been wise.