ArticleDevelopmental psychology2025
Ethical and epistemic costs of a lack of geographical and cultural diversity in developmental science.
Article in Developmental psychology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- From data to discovery: Technology propels speech-language research and theory-building in developmental science.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2025Pooled it
- Some culture is hiding in plain sight in research on child development.The British journal of developmental psychology · 2026Review
- Relational Victimization, Depressive Symptoms, and E-cigarette Use Intentions Among Adolescents: A Parallel Process Growth Curve Model.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2026Article
- Children's math and science beliefs about underrepresented peers are related to STEM occupation expectations.Journal of experimental child psychology · 2026Article
- Majority country methods for developmental psychology: Evidence and insights from diverse global settings.Developmental psychology · 2026Article
- The Scientific and Cultural Cost of Convenience Sampling in the Face of Rising Language Endangerment: Highlighting the Role of Language Acquisition.Open mind : discoveries in cognitive science · 2025Article
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Abstract
Increasing geographical and cultural diversity in research participation has been a key priority for psychological researchers. In this article, we track changes in participant diversity in developmental science over the past decade. These analyses reveal surprisingly modest shifts in global diversity of research participants over time, calling into question the generalizability of our empirical foundation. We provide examples from the study of early child development of the significant epistemic and ethical costs of a lack of geographical and cultural diversity to demonstrate why greater diversification is essential to a generalizable science of human development. We also discuss strategies for diversification that could be implemented throughout the research ecosystem in the service of a culturally anchored, generalizable, and replicable science. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).
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