Ethical and epistemic costs of a lack of geographical and cultural diversity in developmental science.

• DOI: 10.1037/dev0001841
• Publication Date: 2024-09-30T13:21:50Z
• Authors: Leher Singh; Dana Basnight-Brown; Bobby K. Cheon; Rowena Garcia; Melanie Killen; Reiko Mazuka
• Keywords: Developmental Science

Increasing geographical and cultural diversity in research participation has been a key priority for psychological researchers. In this article, we track changes participant developmental science over the past decade. These analyses reveal surprisingly modest shifts global of participants time, calling into question generalizability our empirical foundation. We provide examples from study early child development significant epistemic ethical costs lack to demonstrate why greater diversification is essential generalizable human development. also discuss strategies that could be implemented throughout ecosystem service culturally anchored, generalizable, replicable science. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).