Special Issues and Sections

All inquiries for Special Sections should be communicated directly to the Interim Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Shauna Cooper (scooper1@live.unc.edu).

Upcoming 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
   
• Positive Development and Adaptation in Asian Children
  Editors:  Qi Wang, Qing Zhou, and Florrie Ng

Previously Published Special Issues/Sections

• 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