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

Frank, Michael C

Bergelson, Elika

Bergmann, Christina

Cristia, Alejandrina

Floccia, Caroline

Gervain, Judit

Hamlin, J Kiley

Hannon, Erin E

Kline, Melissa

Levelt, Claartje

Lew-Williams, Casey

Nazzi, Thierry

Panneton, Robin

Rabagliati, Hugh

Soderstrom, Melanie

Sullivan, Jessica

Waxman, Sandra

Yurovsky, Daniel

2020-01-01T18:51:49Z

2020-01-01T18:51:49Z

2017-07

2020-01-01T18:51:48Z

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.

1525-0008

1532-7078

https://hdl.handle.net/10161/19716

eng

Wiley

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

10.1111/infa.12182

Social Sciences

Psychology, Developmental

Psychology

ADULT-DIRECTED SPEECH

CROSS-LANGUAGE

PREVERBAL INFANTS

PREFERENCE

MOTHERESE

SCIENCE

RELIABILITY

PERCEPTION

STIMULI

FALSE

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

Journal article

Bergelson, Elika|0000-0003-2742-4797

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Trinity College of Arts & Sciences

Duke

Psychology and Neuroscience

Linguistics

Duke Institute for Brain Sciences

University Institutes and Centers

Institutes and Provost's Academic Units

Surgery, Head and Neck Surgery and Communication Sciences

Surgery

Clinical Science Departments

School of Medicine

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