[CogSci] Call for Papers: Replication, Collaboration, and Best Practices in Infancy Research

[Michael C. Frank]

[with apologies for the cross-posting]


*Call for Papers: Replication, Collaboration, and Best Practices in Infancy
Research*

*Infant Behavior and Development*

Guest Editor: Michael C. Frank, Stanford University



In the last five years, issues of replicability and reproducibility have
come to the forefront in the social sciences. In psychology especially, a
growing body of evidence suggests that limited sample sizes, flexible
analytic strategies, and a lack of pre-specified study expectations have
all contributed to a lower-than-ideal rate of replication. Although these
issues are likely exacerbated by the difficulties of working with young
participants, they have been discussed much less in developmental
psychology than in other subfields. As result, models of best practices are
limited.

For this special issue, we seek contributions documenting efforts to
develop and apply best practices for researchers working with infants. Topics
may include but are not limited to:

●      Empirical studies with infants (up to 3 years old) that are examples
of collaborative data collection across labs to increase the quality of
developmental science. In these empirical papers, we encourage authors to
discuss insights arising from the process of cross-lab coordination.

●      Replication studies that model the principles of reproducible
science and
explore infant development in areas such as language and cognitive
development, emotional development, perception, perception-action coupling,
motor development, and socialization.

●      Methods papers exploring statistical analyses or innovations in lab
protocols, for example highlighting new methods for increasing measurement
accuracy or decreasing experimenter bias.

We hope that all submissions will also model best practices in openness and
transparency (e.g., sharing materials, code, and data wherever possible).

Manuscripts should be submitted between February 1, 2018 and April 1, 2018.

Manuscripts should be submitted to the journal online via EVISE. Please
submit the original source files, not PDF files. Please read “Guide for
Authors” available at https://www.journals.elsevier.com/infant-behavior-and-
development/. Select special issue option "SI: Replication/Best Practices"
when submitting the article to EVISE.
If in doubt about the appropriateness of submissions, contributors should
contact Guest Editor, Michael Frank, at mcfrank at stanford.edu.
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