Recruiting

Observational Study

Sponsor:

University of California Santa Cruz

Code:

NCT06550206

Conditions

Social Behavior

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 1 - 2

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Interventions

Children's stranger wariness response to strangers

Study Details

Brief summary:

The study will assess if toddlers show differences in stranger wariness according to race, temperament, social network diversity, and neighborhood diversity.

Conditions

Social Behavior

Study ID

NCT06550206

Start date

Jul 30, 2024

Status verified date

Mar, 2025

Completion date

Oct, 2025

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Oct, 2025

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 1 - 2

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

  • typically developing
  • age 13-24 months

Exclusion Criteria:

- any known developmental delays

Study Design

Enrollment

100 participants

Anticipated

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Interventions

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 measure

  • Social Wariness [ Time Frame: Through study completion, an average of 10 years ]
  • Social Preference [ Time Frame: Through study completion, an average of 10 years ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Seaera Juarez, BS

(760) 895-3878serjuare@ucsc.edu

Locations

Social Science 2 Building

Recruiting

Santa Cruz, California, United States, 95064

Contacts

Ian Ferruci, BA

831-264-8155did.lab@ucsc.edu

Principal Investigator:

Hyesung Hwang, PhD

More Information

Sponsor

University of California Santa Cruz

Last update posted

Mar 11, 2025

Last verified

Mar, 2025

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-10. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by University of California Santa Cruz on 2025-03-11.