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A Collaborative Approach to Infant Research: Promoting Reproducibility, Best Practices, and Theory-Building.

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Frank, MC; Bergelson, E; Bergmann, C; Cristia, A; Floccia, C; Gervain, J; Hamlin, JK; Hannon, EE; Kline, M; Levelt, C; Lew-Williams, C ...
Published in: Infancy : the official journal of the International Society on Infant Studies
July 2017

The ideal of scientific progress is that we accumulate measurements and integrate these into theory, but recent discussion of replicability issues has cast doubt on whether psychological research conforms to this model. Developmental research-especially with infant participants-also has discipline-specific replicability challenges, including small samples and limited measurement methods. Inspired by collaborative replication efforts in cognitive and social psychology, we describe a proposal for assessing and promoting replicability in infancy research: large-scale, multi-laboratory replication efforts aiming for a more precise understanding of key developmental phenomena. The ManyBabies project, our instantiation of this proposal, will not only help us estimate how robust and replicable these phenomena are, but also gain new theoretical insights into how they vary across ages, linguistic communities, and measurement methods. This project has the potential for a variety of positive outcomes, including less-biased estimates of theoretically important effects, estimates of variability that can be used for later study planning, and a series of best-practices blueprints for future infancy research.

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Infancy : the official journal of the International Society on Infant Studies

DOI

EISSN

1532-7078

ISSN

1525-0008

Publication Date

July 2017

Volume

22

Issue

4

Start / End Page

421 / 435

Related Subject Headings

  • Developmental & Child Psychology
  • 5201 Applied and developmental psychology
  • 3213 Paediatrics
  • 1701 Psychology
 

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Frank, M. C., Bergelson, E., Bergmann, C., Cristia, A., Floccia, C., Gervain, J., … Yurovsky, D. (2017). A Collaborative Approach to Infant Research: Promoting Reproducibility, Best Practices, and Theory-Building. Infancy : The Official Journal of the International Society on Infant Studies, 22(4), 421–435. https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.12182
Frank, Michael C., Elika Bergelson, Christina Bergmann, Alejandrina Cristia, Caroline Floccia, Judit Gervain, J Kiley Hamlin, et al. “A Collaborative Approach to Infant Research: Promoting Reproducibility, Best Practices, and Theory-Building.Infancy : The Official Journal of the International Society on Infant Studies 22, no. 4 (July 2017): 421–35. https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.12182.
Frank MC, Bergelson E, Bergmann C, Cristia A, Floccia C, Gervain J, et al. A Collaborative Approach to Infant Research: Promoting Reproducibility, Best Practices, and Theory-Building. Infancy : the official journal of the International Society on Infant Studies. 2017 Jul;22(4):421–35.
Frank, Michael C., et al. “A Collaborative Approach to Infant Research: Promoting Reproducibility, Best Practices, and Theory-Building.Infancy : The Official Journal of the International Society on Infant Studies, vol. 22, no. 4, July 2017, pp. 421–35. Epmc, doi:10.1111/infa.12182.
Frank MC, Bergelson E, Bergmann C, Cristia A, Floccia C, Gervain J, Hamlin JK, Hannon EE, Kline M, Levelt C, Lew-Williams C, Nazzi T, Panneton R, Rabagliati H, Soderstrom M, Sullivan J, Waxman S, Yurovsky D. A Collaborative Approach to Infant Research: Promoting Reproducibility, Best Practices, and Theory-Building. Infancy : the official journal of the International Society on Infant Studies. 2017 Jul;22(4):421–435.
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Published In

Infancy : the official journal of the International Society on Infant Studies

DOI

EISSN

1532-7078

ISSN

1525-0008

Publication Date

July 2017

Volume

22

Issue

4

Start / End Page

421 / 435

Related Subject Headings

  • Developmental & Child Psychology
  • 5201 Applied and developmental psychology
  • 3213 Paediatrics
  • 1701 Psychology