The Princeton Baby Lab is a research group in the Department of Psychology at Princeton University. We study how children learn in their natural environments. To do this, we use experimental, observational, computational, and neuroscience research methods.

We are passionate advocates for fairness. We strive for a healthy scientific culture, and we want our research to help children thrive in ways that matter to their community.

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  • Kids playing with a ball on a ramp
  • child's illustration of tiger with words "Princeton Baby Lab"
  • child in stretching toy
  • A child on the sidewalk in a Baby Lab shirt
  • dad with child
  • Mother and grandmother at the Baby Lab hold a rainbow made of balloons around a child's face
  • An infant and parent wearing near-infrared spectroscopy, a brain-imaging technology
  • children looking through Baby Lab
  • A mother holds her baby who is wearing a baby lab bib while a researcher reads a book to the baby
  • Baby Lab t-shirt in front of ferris wheel
Researcher behind curtain observing child and mother engaged in activity
2024 Baby Lab members outside PNI building
lab members on kayaking trip
2024 Baby Lab members