Van Ijzendoorn, Marinus and Bakermans-Kranenburg, Marian (Eds).
(2024)
Matters of Significance:Replication, translation, and academic freedom in developmental science.
UCL Press: London, UK.
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Abstract
Application of scientific findings to effective practice and informed policymaking is an aspiration for much research in the biomedical, behavioural, and developmental sciences. But too often translations of science to practice are conceptually narrow, ethically underspecified, and developed quickly as salves to an urgent problem. For developmental science, widely implemented parenting interventions are prime examples of technical translations from knowledge about the causes of children’s mental distress. Aiming to support family relationships and facilitate adaptive child development, these programmes are rushed through when the scientific findings on which they are based remain contested and without ethical grounding of their aims. In Matters of Significance, Marinus van IJzendoorn and Marian Bakermans-Kranenburg draw on 40 years of experience with theoretical, empirical, meta-analytic and translational work in child development research to highlight the complex relations between replication, translation and academic freedom. They argue that challenging fake facts promulgated by under-replicated and under-powered studies is a critical type of translation beyond technical applications. Such challenges can, in the highlighted field of attachment and emotion regulation research, bust popular myths about the decisive role of genes, hormones, or the brain on parenting and child development, with a balancing impact for practice and policymaking. The authors argue that academic freedom from interference by pressure groups, stakeholders, funders, or university administrators in the core stages of research is a necessary but besieged condition for adversarial research and myth busting.
| Type: | Book |
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| Title: | Matters of Significance:Replication, translation, and academic freedom in developmental science |
| ISBN-13: | 9781800086500 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.9781800086500 |
| Publisher version: | https:// doi.org/10.14324/11.9781800086500 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Text © Authors, 2024 Images © Authors and copyright holders named in captions, 2024 Any third-party material in this book is not covered by the book’s Creative Commons licence. Details of the copyright ownership and permitted use of third- party material is given in the image (or extract) credit lines. If you would like to reuse any third-party material not covered by the book’s Creative Commons licence, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright owner. This book is published under a Creative Commons Attribution- Non- Commercial 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC 4.0), https://creative commons.org/licenses/by-nc/ 4.0/. This licence allows you to share and adapt the work for non-commercial use providing attribution is made to the author and publisher (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work) and any changes are indicated. Attribution should include the following information: Van IJzendoorn, M. H. and Bakermans-Kranenburg, M. J. 2024. Matters of Significance: Replication, translation, and academic freedom in developmental science. London: UCL Press. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.978180 0086 500 Further details about Creative Commons licences are available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ |
| Keywords: | biomedical science, developmental psychology, ethics, parenting, child development |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Clinical, Edu and Hlth Psychology |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10186829 |
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