Toddlers' Responses to Strangers
For patients and families
In plain language
An automatic summary of structured registry data. It is an orientation aid, not a substitute for the official protocol or a physician assessment.
- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: Children's stranger wariness response to strangers.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Social Behavior. Basic parameters: 13 months — 24 months · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- United States
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Official title
The Malleability of Social Group Understanding in Infancy and Early Childhood
Overview
The study will assess if toddlers show differences in stranger wariness according to race, temperament, social network diversity, and neighborhood diversity.
Detailed description
This study is investigating 13- to 24-month-old toddlers' reactions to meeting new people from familiar and unfamiliar racial backgrounds! Participation involves a 1-hour one-time visit to the researcher's lab, located on the UC Santa Cruz campus.
The study itself will take about 20 minutes, but will ask for a 1-hour visit to make sure child participants feel comfortable in the new space. The study will video record as child participants interact with two adults, who will play with the child and offer toys. Parent participants will also be asked to complete two surveys, one demographic survey and one social network survey, so that investigators can better understand how the people children see in their daily lives relate to how participants react to strangers from different racial backgrounds.
Interventions
- Behavioral Children's stranger wariness response to strangers
Children will see two strangers, one from a familiar racial background and one from an unfamiliar racial background. Familiar race stranger will be from the same racial background as the child's caregiver and unfamiliar race stranger will not.
Primary outcome measures
- Social Wariness [Time frame: Through study completion, an average of 10 years]
- Social Preference [Time frame: Through study completion, an average of 10 years]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- typically developing
- age 13-24 months
Exclusion criteria
\- any known developmental delays
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Study design
- Observational model
- Case-only
Study locations
United States · 1 center
- Social Science 2 Building — Santa Cruz
Publications
- Hwang HG, Filippi CA, Morales S, Fox NA, Woodward A. Children's social wariness toward a different-race stranger relates to individual differences in temperament. Dev Sci. 2023 Nov;26(6):e13390. doi: 10.1111/desc.13390. Epub 2023 Mar 24. PMID 36960937
Identifiers
NCT: NCT06550206 · HS-FY2023-23