Savin-Williams Ritch C
Department of Human Development, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA.
Dev Psychol. 2008 Jan;44(1):135-8. doi: 10.1037/0012-1649.44.1.135.
It is not my intent to critique individual contributions in this special issue but to assess scholarly progress since the last special issue devoted to sexual orientation in Developmental Psychology (Patterson, 1995). Because not all steps forward can be catalogued in this limited forum, I focus on several long-standing challenges faced by developmental scientists as they investigate same-sex sexuality: recruitment and definition of same-sex populations, developmental diversity of same-sex oriented individuals, and "clinical traps" created by early research on same-sex populations.
我无意批评本期特刊中的个人贡献，而是要评估自《发展心理学》上一期专门探讨性取向的特刊（帕特森，1995年）以来的学术进展。由于在这个有限的论坛中无法罗列所有的进步，我将重点关注发展科学家在研究同性性行为时面临的几个长期挑战：同性人群的招募和定义、同性取向个体的发展多样性，以及早期对同性人群研究造成的“临床陷阱”。
