Special Issues and Sections

All inquiries for Special Sections should be communicated directly to the Co-Editor-in-Chiefs, Dr. Shauna Cooper (scooper1@live.unc.edu) and Dr. Adam Winsler (awinsler@gmu.edu).

Upcoming Special Issues/Sections

• Centering the Majority World in Developmental Science
  Alhassan Abdullah (Charles Sturt University, Australia), Shuang Lu (University of Central Florida, USA), Daniela Aldoney Ramírez (Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile), and Vaishali Raval (Miami University, USA)
   
• Special Section in Child Development: From Lab to Life: Broadening the Impact of Research in Early Childhood Development
  Guest Editors: Melissa Libertus (University of Pittsburgh) & Rachel Thibodeau-Nielsen (University of Missouri – Columbia) 
   
• Positive Development and Adaptation in Asian Children
  Editors:  Qi Wang, Qing Zhou, and Florrie N
   
• Children’s Developmental Trajectories in the Long Shadow of COVID-19
  Editors: Anna D. Johnson, Gabriela Livas-Stein, and Seth Pollak.

Previously Published Special Issues/Sections

• Highlighting Indigenous Child Development: Edges and Possibilities in State-of-the-Art Research
  Editors: Megan Bang, Monica Tsethlikai, Ashley Cole, Adam Hoffman, Stephanie Fryber, and Florrie Ng
  Published: 95:6, November/December 2024
   
• Formalizing Theories of Child Development
  Editors: Willem E. Frankenhuis, Denny Borsboom, Daniel Nettle, and Glenn I. Roisman
  Published: 94:6, November/December 2023
   
• Registered Reports in Child Development
  Editors: Syed, M., Frank, M.C., Amso, D., Bernard, K., Bowker, J.C., Cheah, C.S.L., Cimpian, A., Cooper, S.M., Eiden, R.D., Malti, T., Pérez-Edgar, K., Sommerville, J.A., Southgate, V., Thompson, R.A., Warneken, F., & Roisman, G.I.
  Published: 94:5, September/October 2023
   
• Advancing Scholarship on Anti-racism within Developmental Science
  Editors: Shauna M. Cooper, Noelle Hurd, and Aerika Brittian Loyd
  Published: 93:3, May/June 2022
   
• Specificity, Commonality, and Generalizability in Social-Emotional Development
  Editors: Tina Malti and Charissa S. L. Cheah
  Published: 92:6, November/December 2021
   
• The Impact of COVID-19 on Child Development around the World 
  Editors: Nirmala Rao and Philip Fisher
  Published: 92:5: September/October 2021
   
• Children's Subjective Well-Being
  Editors: Ferran Casas
  Published: 90:2 March/April 2019
   
• Meta-Analysis and Individual Participant Data Synthesis in Child Development (Continuation)
  Editors: Marinus van IJzendoorn and Glenn I. Roisman
  Published: 90:1 January/February 2019
   
• Meta-Analysis and Individual Participant Data Synthesis in Child Development
  Editors: Marinus van IJzendoorn and Glenn I. Roisman
  Published: 89:6 November/December 2018
   
• The Developing Brain: Evidence for Plasticity During Childhood and Adolescence
  Editors: Amanda E. Guyer, Koraly Pérez‐Edgar, and Eveline A. Crone
  Published: 89:3 May/June 2018
   
• Contemporary Mobile Technology and Child and Adolescent Development
  Editors: Zheng Yan and Lennart Hardell
  Published: 89:1 January/February 2018
   
• Origins of Children's Self-Views
  Editors: Eddie Brummelman and Sander Thomaes
  Published: 88:6 November/December 2017
   
• Bringing Developmental Science into the World
  Editors: Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Rachel Grob, and Mark Schlesinger
  Published: 88:5 September/October 2017
   
• Positive Youth Development in Diverse and Global Contexts
  Editors: Emilie P. Smith, Anne C. Petersen, and Patrick Leman
  Published: 88:4 July/August 2017
   
• Context and Ethnic/Racial Identity
  Editors: Eleanor Seaton, Stephen Quintana, Maykel Verkuyten and Gilbert Gee
  Published: 88:3 May/June 2017
   
• Developmental Research and Translational Science: Evidence-based Intervention for At-risk Youth and Families
  Editors: Suniya Luthar and Nancy Eisenberg
  Published: 88:2 March/April 2017
   
• Severe Youth Violence: Developmental Perspectives
  Editors: Tina Malti and Margit Averdijk
  Published: 88:1 January/February 2017
   
• The Motivational Foundations of Prosocial Behavior: A Developmental Perspective
  Editors: Maayan Davidov, Ariel Knafo, Amrisha Vaish and Paul Hastings
  Published: 87:6 November/December 2016
   
• Discrimination, Social Exclusion, and Intergroup Attitudes: Equity and Justice in Developmental Science
  Editors: Melanie Killen, Adam Rutland and Tiffany Yip
  Published: 87:5 September/October 2016
   
• Asian American Child Development
  Editor: Vivian Tseng
  Published: 87:4 July/August 2016
   
• The Ontogeny of Cultural Learning
  Editors: Cristine Legare and Paul Harris
  Published: 87:3 May/June 2016
   
• Epigenetics, Child Behavior and Development: Unraveling the Gene-Environment Interation
  Editors: Barry Lester, Elizabeth Conradt and Carmen Marsit
  Published: 87:1 January/February 2016
   
• Ethnic and Racial Identity in Child Development
  Editors: Michael Cunningham, Deborah Rivas-Drake and Adriana J. Umaña-Taylor
  Published: 85:1 January/February 2014
   
• Genomics
  Editors: Mary Dozier and Elena L. Grigorenko
  Published: 84:1 January/February 2013
   
• Children From Immigrant Families
  Editors: Robert Crosnoe and Andrew J. Fuligni
  Published: 83:5 September/October 2012
   
• Child Development in Developing Countries 
  Editor: Marc H. Bornstein
  Published: 83:1 January/February 2012
   
• Raising Healthy Children
  Editors: Nancy G. Guerra, Sandra Graham and Patrick H. Tolan
  Published: 82:1 January/February 2011
   
• Disasters and Their Impact on Child Development
  Editors: Ann S. Masten and Joy D. Osofsky
  Published: 81:4 July/August 2010
   
• The Effects of Early Experience on Development
  Editors: Nathan A. Fox and Michael Rutter
  Published: 81:1 January/February 2010
   
• Developmental Social Cognitive Neuroscience
  Editors: Rebecca R. Saxe and Kevin A. Pelphrey
  Published: 80:4 July/August 2009