The five papers in this issue address myths and realities associated with human development research and theorizing. The papers represent diverse perspectives on sexual minority youth, resilience and risk for youth in high achieving schools, a reconceptualization of hostility in African American parenting styles, a critical examination of diversity and contact for students attending racial/ethnically diverse schools, and a thoughtful consideration of contextual factors associated with aggressive attitudes and prosocial behaviors in African American males. The authors of each of these papers challenge human development researchers to consider new and/or alternative ways of examining empirical studies and conceptualizing new ones.

本期的五篇论文探讨了与人类发展研究和理论化相关的神话和现实。这些论文代表了关于少数族裔青年，在高成就学校中青年的韧性和风险，对非裔美国人养育方式的敌意的重新认识，对多样性和与种族/族裔多元化学校就读的学生的联系的批判性考察以及深思熟虑的不同观点非裔美国人男性的攻击性态度和亲社会行为相关的背景因素 这些论文的每位作者都向人类发展研究人员提出挑战，要求他们考虑检验实证研究和概念化新研究的新方法和/或替代方法。