In the Koç University Child and Family Studies Laboratory, research on the cognitive, social and emotional development of children are carried out. These researches examine the levels of skills in typical and atypical child development, and the internal and environmental factors that affect these skills. The temperament characteristics of the child born with, parenting behaviors interacting with this temperament, behavioral problems in children and the social, cognitive and emotional reasons underlying these problems are some of the topics studied in the Child and Family Studies Laboratory.