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Developmental research assessing bias would benefit from naturalistic observation data

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 May 2022

Jennifer L. Rennels Open the ORCID record for Jennifer L. Rennels [Opens in a new window]  and
Kindy Insouvanh
Jennifer L. Rennels
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV 89154-5030, USA. Jennifer.rennels@unlv.edu; insouvan@unlv.nevada.edu https://rebellab.sites.unlv.edu
Kindy Insouvanh
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV 89154-5030, USA. Jennifer.rennels@unlv.edu; insouvan@unlv.nevada.edu https://rebellab.sites.unlv.edu
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Abstract

Cesario's critiques and suggestions for redesigning social psychology experiments echo Dahl's (2017) call for developmental researchers to use experimental and naturalistic methods in a complementary manner for understanding children's development. We provide examples of how naturalistic observations can rectify Cesario's missing flaws for developmental studies investigating children's social biases and help researchers derive theories they can then experimentally test.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 45 , 2022 , e89
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press

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