{"id":16351,"date":"2025-04-16T09:06:43","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T13:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/?p=16351"},"modified":"2025-05-05T10:36:50","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T14:36:50","slug":"tiktoks-cookie-challenge-why-do-some-children-share","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/2025\/tiktoks-cookie-challenge-why-do-some-children-share\/","title":{"rendered":"TikTok&#8217;s Cookie Challenge&#8211;Why do Some Children Share?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        TikTok&#8217;s Cookie Challenge&#8211;Why do Some Children Share?\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p><strong>Rebecca Merkley and Liza Kawaji<\/strong> have an article published in The Conversation which includes several humourous videos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;The cookie challenge is one of the latest trends to go viral on TikTok. In the challenge, parents test how willing their child is to share a cookie. Typically, two adults and one young child each have a covered plate in front of them.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>When the covers are removed, the child has two cookies on their plate, while one parent has one cookie and the other has none. Most children subsequently either keep both cookies or give one to the parent who had none.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The big question these parents are asking is: will my child share their cookies with me?&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/story\/tiktok-cookie-challenge-kids-sharing\/\">Read the full article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rebecca Merkley and Liza Kawaji have an article published in The Conversation which includes several humourous videos. &#8220;The cookie challenge is one of the latest trends to go viral on TikTok. In the challenge, parents test how willing their child is to share a cookie. Typically, two adults and one young child each have a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15771,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16352,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16351\/revisions\/16352"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}