A Collaborative Approach to Infant Research: Promoting Reproducibility, Best Practices, and Theory-Building
A Collaborative Approach to Infant Research: Promoting Reproducibility, Best Practices, and Theory-Building
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DOI：
10.1111/infa.12182
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发表时间：
2017-07-01
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影响因子：
2.6
通讯作者：
Yurovsky, Daniel
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作者：
Frank, Michael C.;Bergelson, Elika;Yurovsky, Daniel
科学进步的理想是我们积累测量数据并将其整合到理论中，但最近关于可复制性问题的讨论使人们对心理学研究是否符合这一模式产生了怀疑。发展研究，特别是婴儿参与者，也有学科特定的可重复性的挑战，包括小样本和有限的测量方法。受认知和社会心理学领域协作复制工作的启发，我们描述了一项评估和促进婴儿期研究可复制性的建议：大规模、多实验室复制工作，旨在更准确地理解关键发育现象。ManyBabies项目是我们对这一提议的实例化，它不仅将帮助我们估计这些现象的稳健性和可复制性，而且还将获得新的理论见解，以了解它们如何在不同年龄，语言社区和测量方法中变化。该项目有可能产生各种积极的结果，包括对理论上重要影响的偏差较小的估计，可用于以后研究计划的变异性估计，以及未来婴儿研究的一系列最佳实践蓝图。
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.