BRIDGES OF DEVELOPMENTAL SCIENCE

The introduction to the current issue of Research in Human Development discusses four articles. Using the metaphor of “bridges,” I explain how each submission is a bridge in developmental science. The authors offer ways in which there is connectedness between developmental levels, contexts, and historical time periods. An important contribution of these papers is that the authors remind developmental scientists to critically analyze the extant literature from historical, intersectional, contextual, and systems’ perspectives.