Singh, LeherBasnight-Brown, DanaCheon, Bobby K.Garcia, RowenaKillen, MelanieMazuka, Reiko2024-10-282024-10-282024Singh, Leher, Dana Basnight-Brown, Bobby K. Cheon, Rowena Garcia, Melanie Killen, and Reiko Mazuka. “Ethical and Epistemic Costs of a Lack of Geographical and Cultural Diversity in Developmental Science.” Developmental Psychology, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001841.https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001841http://hdl.handle.net/11603/36748Increasing 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) 2024 APA, all rights reserved)61 pagesen-US©American Psychological Association, 2024. This paper is not the copy of record and may not exactly replicate the authoritative document published in the APA journal. Please do not copy or cite without author's permission. The final article is available, upon publication, at: https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001841DiversityGeographySciencesDevelopmental PsychologyEarly Childhood DevelopmentEthicsEpistemologyCultural DiversityText