1-117 - Openness, Replication, & Data Reuse in Developmental Science – Unique Challenges, Existing Resources, & What is Still Needed

Session Type: Conversation Roundtable

Integrative Statement

The field of psychology is engaged in a growing dialogue about open science practices including publishable data sets, replication, transparent reporting of procedural decisions and statistical analyses, and data reuse. Such efforts are aimed at increased transparency and accelerating the rate of progress by improving the tenuous nature of many research findings and getting more out of existing datasets. In the last five years, this dialogue has gained significant momentum and national media attention. However, efforts to establish open practices and standards have been much slower to take root in the subdiscipline of developmental psychology. Because pregnant women and children are protected participant populations and participant recruitment, data collection, and data coding are so time and labor intensive, developmental psychologists must grapple with unique challenges when working to implement open science practices. These challenges are manifest in the delayed pace of engagement with open science practices in journals and at conferences. Other subdisciplines of psychology have been immensely successful at incentivizing open science practices (e.g., badge system implemented by Psychological Science and Registered Reports model adopted by many social/personality and general psychology journals). But at present, such efforts have not taken hold in developmental psychology. Nonetheless, for 50+ years, developmental scientists have led the field with repositories for data reuse (e.g., ICPSR and Add Health with demographic developmental data, CHILDES Homebank, TalkBank, and WordBank for child language data, and the Databrary library for research videos). This roundtable will explore the challenges of embracing open science practices in developmental psychology.

Sub Unit

• Methods, History, Theory

Moderator

• Grace Binion, University of Oregon

Panelists

• Karen E. Adolph, New York University, Department of Psychology & Neuroscience

• Rick Gilmore, Penn State

• Lisa Oakes, University of California-Davis

• Simine Vazire, University of California, Davis