February's Editor's Choice:
Neonatal care and developmental outcomes following preterm birth: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
Or Burstein, Tamara Aryeh, Ronny Geva
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Issue 62, Volume 2 is out at Developmental Psychology!
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Topics Include
-Peer Victimization
-Peers and the Family
-The Classroom
-Long term impacts of prematurity
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The introduction from the trio of guest editors then ushers in the issue contributions:
Majority country methods for developmental psychology: Evidence and insights from diverse global settings.
Draper, Catherine E.; Lipina, Sebastian; Zhou, Qing.
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Issue 62, Volume 1 is out at Developmental Psychology!
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Developmental Methods in the Majority World
The issue brings together work spanning multiple approaches, all grounded in the local context.
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Just a reminder!
This latest Special Issue has Letters of Intent Due on February 15.
Reimagining developmental science through the lens of Black girlhood
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December:
Early and later susceptibility to effects of parenting: Exploring Frankenhuis and Panchanathan’s (2011) evolutionary commitment hypothesis.
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November:
Boyd McCandless Award Paper
Using novel neural measures to explore the development of infant attention bias to threat.
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October:
Improving generalizability of developmental research through increased use of homogeneous convenience samples: A Monte Carlo simulation.
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September:
Children adapt their information search to goal and statistical structure of a problem.
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August:
Maternal education and prenatal smoking associations with adolescent executive function are substantially confounded by genetics.
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July:
Children of immigrants’ behavioral trajectories and family processes: Using an integrative developmental model.
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June:
Early home numeracy activities and children’s third-grade symbolic and nonsymbolic math skills: A 5-year longitudinal study.
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May:
Unique and interactive roles of economic stress and discrimination on heterogeneous development among Chinese American adolescents: An 8-year longitudinal study.
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April:
Computational modeling approaches to emotional development.
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March:
What does play have to do with it? A concrete and digital spatial intervention with 3-year-olds predicts spatial and math learning.
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February:
Do future actions matter more than past deeds? Temporal moral attribution in U.S. and Chinese school-age children.
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January:
Remote Infant Studies of Early Learning (RISE): Scalable online replications of key findings in infant cognitive development.
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The year is wrapping up at Developmental Psychology.
As always, the greatest part is interacting with our amazing editorial team and reading wonderful science.
Every month, I also get the privilege of selecting the editor's choice paper.
Here they are for 2025:
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We are beyond excited to share our research evaluating the HRfunc tool has been published this week in Neurophotonics. Check out the pre-print here...
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Very excited to announce HRfunc, a tool for estimating neural activity in fNIRS studies, published this week in Neurophotonics!
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So excited to announce HRfunc, a new tool for estimating neural activity in fNIRS studies, published this week in Neurophotonics www.spiedigitallibrary.org/journals/neu...
Thank you for the invitation! I feel like I got the better end of the deal by getting to meet all of you.
December's Editor's Choice:
Early and later susceptibility to effects of parenting: Exploring Frankenhuis and Panchanathan’s (2011) evolutionary commitment hypothesis.
Zhang, X., Machlin, L., McLaughlin, K., & Belsky, J.
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Issue 61, Volume 12 is out at Developmental Psychology!
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Topics Include
-Intergenerational and Contextual Adversity
-Ethnic-Racial Socialization
-Executive Functions
-Impact of Parenting
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Submissions may include:
-Empirical Studies
-Theoretical Papers
-Methodological Papers
-Community‑Engaged/Participatory
- Intervention & Applied Papers
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Potential Topics Pt 3
- Bridge disciplinary boundaries and foster interdisciplinary dialogue about Black girlhood.
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Potential Topics Pt 2
- Highlight normative, positive, and culturally grounded pathways of development, resilience, resistance, and thriving.
- Offer innovative frameworks, methods, or interventions that challenge dominant paradigms and foreground Black girls’ voices and agency.
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Potential Topics Pt 1
- Illuminate how intersecting identities shape Black girls’ developmental trajectories, identity formations, and well‑being.
- Examine the structural, cultural, and relational systems that influence Black girls’ experiences and outcomes.
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Submission Details
LOIs: February 15, 2026 to Rona Carter
Length: 500-750 words
Notification: April 15, 2026
Full Mauscript: July 15, 2026
LOIs: outline the study’s objectives, theoretical framework, methods (if applicable), a brief summary of key findings, & relevance to the special issue.
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🚨Special Issue at Developmental Psychology🚨
Reimagining Developmental Science Through the Lens of Black Girlhood
Guest Eds:
Rona Carter (Lead)
Sheretta T. Butler‑Barnes
Fatima Varner
Eleanor K. Seaton
On Web soon, Text for now: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/h43oc...
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