Ethical and Epistemic Costs of a Lack of Geographical and Cultural Diversity in Developmental Science.

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 diversi...

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Publicado en:Developmental Psychology Vol. 61; no. 1; pp. 1 - 19
Autores principales: Singh, Leher, Basnight-Brown, Dana, Cheon, Bobby K., Garcia, Rowena, Killen, Melanie, Mazuka, Reiko
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Publicado: American Psychological Association Jan2025
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          Singh, Leher
          Basnight-Brown, Dana
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          Killen, Melanie
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          Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
          Department of Psychology, United States International University
          Division of Population Health Research, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, Maryland, United States
          Department of Language Development, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
          Department of Speech Pathology, University of the Philippines Manila
          Department of Linguistics, Developmental Psycholinguistics Group, University of Potsdam
          Department of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology, University of Maryland, College Park
          Research Institute for Science and Engineering, Waseda University
          Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University
          RIKEN Center for Brain Science, Saitama, Japan
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        cultural diversity
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      ab: 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. Public Significance Statement: Developmental psychology has been greatly limited by a lack of geographic and cultural diversity. This article discusses the costs of these limitations for what we know about human development and provides a roadmap for greater diversification. Expanding our base of knowledge about human development is significant and relevant to the population at large.
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