What 5000 babies can tell us about developing minds and how to study them

McMillan, B., Baumgartner, H., Bergmann, C., Frank, M., Hamlin, K., Kampis, D., Kline Struhl, M., Ko, E.-S., Kosie, J., Lew-Williams, C., Lucca, K., Schuwerk, T., Soderstrom, M., Visser, I., Yuen, F., Zettersten, M., & Byers-Heinlein, K. (2026). What 5000 babies can tell us about developing minds and how to study them. Communications Psychology, 4: 92. doi:10.1038/s44271-026-00477-w.
A decade of ManyBabies research, testing thousands of babies across hundreds of labs, has shown that some, but not all findings in infant research replicate well. Collectively, these projects have shown us that our methods carry limitations that larger samples alone cannot resolve. Here we present three lessons that point toward a more reliable, inclusive developmental science.
Publication type
Journal article
Publication date
2026

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