WILDing the Study of Developmental Trajectories in Navigation and Wayfinding: Progress and Challenges.

Bard, Keller, and Leavens put a spotlight on the demographic makeup of participant samples in developmental psychology. These participants are generally Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic, echoing a widespread problem in psychology. The authors advocate for an approach that is worldwide, in situ, local, and diverse (WILD). Here, we want to look at WILD work in the domain of navigation, which illustrates some of the challenges involved with the approach.