TY - JOUR
T1 - Developmental Science in 2025
T2 - A Predictive Review
AU - Lerner, Richard M.
AU - Agans, Jennifer P.
AU - DeSouza, Lisette M.
AU - Hershberg, Rachel M.
N1 - Funding Information:
The preparation of this article was supported in part by grants from the John Templeton Foundation.
Publisher Copyright:
©, Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
PY - 2014/10/2
Y1 - 2014/10/2
N2 - This article discusses the current and emerging status of contemporary developmental science and present predictions about the growth of the field by 2025. Key contemporary features of developmental science involve a theoretical focus on models derived from the relational developmental systems, metamodel, a methodological focus on quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods analytic approaches. Emerging foci involve an integrative understanding of evolution and of epigenetics, methodological innovations predicated on the idiographic nature of intraindividual change and on the use of systems science and econometric methods, and the use of relation developmental systems-based evidence to enact applications to optimize human development and to promote social justice.
AB - This article discusses the current and emerging status of contemporary developmental science and present predictions about the growth of the field by 2025. Key contemporary features of developmental science involve a theoretical focus on models derived from the relational developmental systems, metamodel, a methodological focus on quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods analytic approaches. Emerging foci involve an integrative understanding of evolution and of epigenetics, methodological innovations predicated on the idiographic nature of intraindividual change and on the use of systems science and econometric methods, and the use of relation developmental systems-based evidence to enact applications to optimize human development and to promote social justice.
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U2 - 10.1080/15427609.2014.967046
DO - 10.1080/15427609.2014.967046
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84911862902
SN - 1542-7609
VL - 11
SP - 255
EP - 272
JO - Research in Human Development
JF - Research in Human Development
IS - 4
ER -