“…been consolidated in Latin America in the last 2 decades, both in terms of the quantity of scholars and the diversity and quality of production, as has been commented on in several publications (i.e., Facchinetti et al, 2014;Klappenbach & Jaco ´-Vilela, 2016; Ossa et al, 2021;Quezada et al, 2018). Such growth meant that it became possible to start building bridges with North American scholars, bringing broader and more inclusive perspectives into the specialty, as well as to foster exchanges among scholars and renew research agenda through new topics and comparisons among diverse regions (Pickren & Rutherford, 2012).…”