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An artificial boundary is often drawn between research and activism, but scholar activism can be good for science and for society when it centres the needs of people who are multiply marginalized — especially during the current climate crisis.

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Acknowledgements

The authors thank R. Mistry and G. Luk for convening the panel “Centering Race & Culture in Developmental Science: Theoretical Perspectives” at the Society for Research in Child Development conference on 25 March 2023, at Salt Lake City, UT, USA, where some of these ideas were discussed. J.M.C., L.O.R. and L.P.J. served as panelists and T.Y. as moderator of that panel.

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  1. School of Social and Family Dynamics, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA

    José M. Causadias

  2. Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA

    Leoandra Onnie Rogers

  3. Institute for Policy Research, Chicago, IL, USA

    Leoandra Onnie Rogers

  4. Department of Education, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

    Linda P. Juang

  5. Department of Psychology, Fordham University, New York City, NY, USA

    Tiffany Yip

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Causadias, J.M., Rogers, L.O., Juang, L.P. et al. Scholar activism benefits science and society. Nat Rev Psychol (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44159-024-00319-8

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