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Improving the generalizability of infant psychological research: The ManyBabies model

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2022

Ingmar Visser Open the ORCID record for Ingmar Visser [Opens in a new window] ,
Christina Bergmann ,
Krista Byers-Heinlein ,
Rodrigo Dal Ben ,
Wlodzislaw Duch ,
Samuel Forbes ,
Laura Franchin ,
Michael C. Frank ,
Alessandra Geraci  and
J. Kiley Hamlin
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Ingmar Visser
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 1018 WB, The Netherlands i.visser@uva.nl; http://www.ingmar.org
Christina Bergmann
Affiliation:
Language and Development Department, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, 6525 XD Nijmegen, The Netherlands christina.bergmann@mpi.nl; https://www.mpi.nl
Krista Byers-Heinlein
Affiliation:
Concordia Infant Research Laboratory, Concordia University, Montreal QC H4B 1R6, Canada k.byers@concordia.ca; dalbenwork@gmail.com; https://infantresearch.ca
Rodrigo Dal Ben
Affiliation:
Concordia Infant Research Laboratory, Concordia University, Montreal QC H4B 1R6, Canada k.byers@concordia.ca; dalbenwork@gmail.com; https://infantresearch.ca
Wlodzislaw Duch
Affiliation:
Nicolaus Copernicus University, 87-100 Torun, Poland wduch@umk.pl; https://www.umk.pl/en
Samuel Forbes
Affiliation:
University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK samuel.forbes@uea.ac.uk; https://people.uea.ac.uk/samuel_forbes
Laura Franchin
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science, University of Trento, 38068 Rovereto, Italy laura.franchin@unitn.it; alessandra.geraci@unitn.it; https://webapps.unitn.it/du/en/Persona/PER0169770; https://webapps.unitn.it/du/en/Persona/PER0033078
Michael C. Frank
Affiliation:
Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94301 USA mcfrank@stanford.edu; http://langcog.stanford.edu
Alessandra Geraci
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science, University of Trento, 38068 Rovereto, Italy laura.franchin@unitn.it; alessandra.geraci@unitn.it; https://webapps.unitn.it/du/en/Persona/PER0169770; https://webapps.unitn.it/du/en/Persona/PER0033078
J. Kiley Hamlin
Affiliation:
UBC Center for Infant Cognition, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada kiley.hamlin@psych.ubc.ca; https://cic.psych.ubc.ca/
Zsuzsa Kaldy
Affiliation:
UMass Boston, Baby Lab, Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA 02125-3393, USA zsuzsa.kaldy@umb.edu; http://babies.umb.edu
Louisa Kulke
Affiliation:
Neurocognitive Developmental Psychology, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 91052 Erlangen, Germany louisa.kulke@fau.de; https://neurodevpsychology.phil.fau.de/
Catherine Laverty
Affiliation:
School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, B15 2TT Birmingham, UK CML704@student.bham.ac.uk; https://carolinerichards.net/people/
Casey Lew-Williams
Affiliation:
Princeton Baby Lab, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA caseylw@princeton.edu; martincz@princeton.edu; https://babylab.princeton.edu/
Victoria Mateu
Affiliation:
UCLA Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1532, USA vmateu@humnet.ucla.edu; https://www.victoriamateu.com/
Julien Mayor
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, 0373 Oslo, Norway julien.mayor@psykologi.uio.no; https://www.sv.uio.no/psi/english/people/aca/julienma/
David Moreau
Affiliation:
Brain Dynamics Lab, University of Auckland, Auckland 1010, New Zealand d.moreau@auckland.ac.nz; https://www.braindynamicslab.com
Iris Nomikou
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK iris.nomikou@port.ac.uk; https://www.port.ac.uk/about-us/structure-and-governance/our-people/our-staff/iris-nomikou
Tobias Schuwerk
Affiliation:
Department of Pscyhology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 80802 Munich, Germany tobias.schuwerk@psy.lmu.de; https://www.psy.lmu.de/epp/personen/wiss_ma/tobias_schuwerk/
Elizabeth A. Simpson
Affiliation:
Social Cognition Laboratory, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 33124, USA simpsone@miami.edu; https://people.miami.edu/profile/simpsone@miami.edu
Leher Singh
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, National University of Singapore, Singapore 119077 psyls@nus.edu.sg; http://blog.nus.edu.sg/lehersingh/
Melanie Soderstrom
Affiliation:
Baby Language Lab, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2, Canada melsod@babylanguagelab.org; https://babylanguagelab.org/
Jessica Sullivan
Affiliation:
Developing Minds Center, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866, USA jsulliv1@skidmore.edu; https://www.skidmore.edu/developing_minds_center/index.php
Marion I. van den Heuvel
Affiliation:
Department of Cognitive Neuropsychology, Tilburg University, 5037 AB Tilburg, The Netherlands m.i.vdnheuvel@tilburguniversity.edu; http://marionvandenheuvel.com
Gert Westermann
Affiliation:
Department: Psychology, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YW, UK g.westermann@lancaster.ac.uk; https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/people-profiles/gert-westermann
Yuki Yamada
Affiliation:
Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan yamadayuk@gmail.com; http://sites.google.com/site/yamadayuk/
Lorijn Zaadnoordijk
Affiliation:
Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland l.zaadnoordijk@tcd.ie; https://sites.google.com/view/lorijnzaadnoordijk/homepage
Martin Zettersten
Affiliation:
Princeton Baby Lab, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA caseylw@princeton.edu; martincz@princeton.edu; https://babylab.princeton.edu/
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Abstract

Yarkoni's analysis clearly articulates a number of concerns limiting the generalizability and explanatory power of psychological findings, many of which are compounded in infancy research. ManyBabies addresses these concerns via a radically collaborative, large-scale and open approach to research that is grounded in theory-building, committed to diversification, and focused on understanding sources of variation.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 45 , 2022 , e35
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