Descriptive developmental research seeks to document, describe and analyze the conditions under which infants and children live and learn. Here, we articulate how open-science practices can be incorporated into descriptive research to increase its transparency, reliability and replicability. To date, most open-science practices have been oriented toward experimental rather than descriptive studies, and it can be unclear how to translate open-science practices (e.g., preregistration) for research that is more descriptive in nature. We discuss a number of unique considerations for descriptive developmental research, taking inspiration from existing open-science practices and providing examples from recent and ongoing studies. By embracing a scientific culture where descriptive research and open science coexist productively, developmental science will be better positioned to generate comprehensive theories of development and understand variability in development across communities and cultures.

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发展科学描述性研究的开放科学考虑

描述性发展研究旨在记录、描述和分析婴儿和儿童生活和学习的条件。在这里，我们阐述了如何将开放科学实践纳入描述性研究，以提高其透明度、可靠性和可复制性。迄今为止，大多数开放科学实践都面向实验而非描述性研究，并且尚不清楚如何将开放科学实践（例如预注册）转化为更具描述性的研究。我们讨论了描述性发展研究的一些独特考虑因素，从现有的开放科学实践中汲取灵感，并提供了最近和正在进行的研究的例子。通过拥抱描述性研究和开放科学有效共存的科学文化，发展科学将能够更好地产生全面的发展理论并理解跨社区和文化的发展差异。