Dr. Pope-Caldwell has recently co-authored a new paper, “ Bias at Scale: Global Disparities in the Representativeness and Contextualization of Childhood Research” Where the team reviewed 2,698 articles on children aged 0-10 published between 2016 and 2020 in five developmental journals, and asked who is being studied, how samples are described, and how the work is cited. Rather than relying on a WEIRD/non-WEIRD split, they related each country's representation to continuous country-level metrics (education, industrialization, wealth, democracy, household size, urbanization, religiosity, economic inequality, ethnic diversity).
Stengelin, Neldner, et al. (2026). Bias at Scale: Global Disparities in the Representativeness and Contextualization of Childhood Research.
https://doi.org/10.1177/17456916261459902
Read more about this study here!
October 2026
