Singh Leher, Basnight-Brown Dana, Cheon Bobby K, Garcia Rowena, Killen Melanie, Mazuka Reiko
Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
Department of Psychology, United States International University.
Dev Psychol. 2025 Jan;61(1):1-18. doi: 10.1037/dev0001841. Epub 2024 Sep 30.
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).
增加研究参与中的地理和文化多样性一直是心理学研究者的关键优先事项。在本文中，我们追踪了过去十年发展科学中参与者多样性的变化。这些分析揭示，随着时间推移，研究参与者的全球多样性变化惊人地微小，这让人质疑我们实证基础的普遍性。我们从幼儿发展研究中举例说明缺乏地理和文化多样性所带来的重大认知和伦理成本，以证明为何更大程度的多样化对于一门可推广的人类发展科学至关重要。我们还讨论了在整个研究生态系统中可以实施的多样化策略，以服务于一门具有文化根基、可推广且可复制的科学。（PsycInfo数据库记录（c）2025美国心理学会，保留所有权利）
