1000 Kids

This study was designed by five senior researchers to investigate basic questions on how early childhood development shapes later development in adolescence. All five researchers contribute with research questions regarding their fields of expertise: social and gender processing, prosocial and antisocial behaviors, action prediction and evaluation, language, sleep, and autonomous regulation. We also ask questions regarding environmental influences such as family structures and resources, media usage, and wider societal factors.

We track infant and early childhood development using questionnaires for the parents and an early lab visit when the infant is between 6 to 12 months of age. During the lab visit we use eye tracking and pupillometry to inform us how each individual perceives and interprets stimuli related to social processes, language, and autonomous regulation. Later development is assessed from register data such as health care, school and Statistics Sweden registers up to the age of 16 years.