Child Development

Papers
(The median citation count of Child Development is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
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Adolescent caregiving success as a predictor of social functioning from ages 13 to 33186
The beneficial effect of sleep on behavioral health problems in youth is disrupted by prenatal cannabis exposure: A causal random forest analysis of Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development data84
Strengthening parental self‐efficacy and resilience: A within‐subject experimental study with refugee parents of adolescents83
Crying in the first 12 months of life: A systematic review and meta‐analysis of cross‐country parent‐reported data and modeling of the “cry curve”80
Language development beyond the here‐and‐now: Iconicity and displacement in child‐directed communication77
Messaging about descriptive and injunctive norms can promote honesty in young children53
A Shift in the Direction of the Production Effect in Children Aged 2–6 Years48
Paternal and maternal rejection and Chinese children's internalizing and externalizing problems across the transition to siblinghood: A developmental cascade model of family influence48
Gahvora cradling in Tajikistan: Cultural practices and associations with motor development43
Development of complex executive function over childhood: Longitudinal growth curve modeling of performance on the Groton Maze Learning Task40
The Role of Controllability and Foreseeability in Children's Counterfactual Emotions40
Children strategically conceal selfishness36
Development of literacy skills for Japanese deaf and hard‐of‐hearing children35
Children boost their cognitive performance with a novel offloading technique34
Children's Trait Inference and Partner Choice in a Cooperative Game33
Children and adults' intuitions of what people can believe31
Mentalistic and normative frameworks in children's explanations of others' behaviors31
Links between shared and unique perspectives of parental psychological control and adolescent emotional problems: A dyadic daily diary study31
A Pre‐registered sticky mittens study: active training does not increase reaching and grasping in a swedish context30
Testing the effectiveness of the Developing Inclusive Youth program: A multisite randomized control trial29
Children's evaluations of interracial peer inclusion and exclusion: The role of intimacy29
Learning apps at home prepare children for school29
Simulating peers: Can puppets simulate peer interactions in studies on children's socio‐cognitive development?28
Early Vocabulary Acquisition: From Birth Order Effect to Child‐to‐Caregiver Ratio28
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Emotion transmission in peer dyads in middle childhood27
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Parent socialization and anti‐racist ideology development in White youth: Do peer and parenting contexts matter?27
Contributions of bilingual home environment and language proficiency on children’s Spanish–English reading outcomes26
Mothers speak less to infants during detected real‐world phone use26
School readiness losses during the COVID‐19 outbreak. A comparison of two cohorts of young children26
Control–value appraisals and academic emotions: An intensive longitudinal examination of reciprocal effects26
The development of early numeracy in deaf and hard of hearing children acquiring spoken language25
Genetic and environmental contributions to individual differences in visual attention and oculomotor control in early infancy25
Mother–child collaboration in an Indigenous community: Changing and enduring across generations25
DNA methylation variation after a parenting program for child conduct problems: Findings from a randomized controlled trial24
Temperament and psychopathology: The “community” to which you belong matters24
Language‐specific phonological skills and the relationship with reading accuracy in Sylheti‐English sequential bilinguals24
Childhood poverty, immune cell aging, and African Americans' insulin resistance: A prospective study24
Peer victimization and empathy for victims of bullying: A test of bidirectional associations in childhood and adolescence23
Longitudinal links between maternal cultural socialization, peer ethnic‐racial discrimination, and ethnic‐racial pride in Mexican American youth23
Latent profiles of children's shyness: Behavioral, affective, and physiological components23
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A meta‐analysis of forgiveness education interventions’ effects on forgiveness and anger in children and adolescents22
How does caregiver–child conversation during a scientific storybook reading impact children's mindset beliefs and persistence?22
Childcare Center Attendance During the Covid‐19 Pandemic: Boosting Cognitive and Language Development22
Young children's adaptive partner choice in cooperation and competition contexts22
The Comprehensive Assessment of Theory of Mind (CAT): A Novel Measure of 3‐ to 8‐Year‐Old Children's Theory of Mind and an Evaluation of Mental‐State Scaling21
How a Preschool Intervention Affected High School Outcomes: Longitudinal Pathways in a Randomized‐Controlled Trial21
Are mobile phone ownership and age of acquisition associated with child adjustment? A 5‐year prospective study among low‐income Latinx children21
Maternal color‐consciousness is related to more positive and less negative attitudes toward ethnic‐racial outgroups in children in White Dutch families21
Interparental conflict dimensions and children's psychological problems: Emotion recognition as a mediator21
Sibling effects on problem and prosocial behavior in childhood: Patterns of intrafamilial “contagion” by birth order21
Empirical benchmarks for changes in social and emotional skills over time21
The effects of reward on children’s Stroop performance: Interactions with temperament20
Mechanisms and pathways linking kindergarten behavior problems with mid‐life employment earnings for males from low‐income neighborhoods20
Are victims of bullying primarily social outcasts? Person‐group dissimilarities in relational, socio‐behavioral, and physical characteristics as predictors of victimization20
Does early child negative emotionality moderate the association between maternal stimulation and academic readiness and achievement?20
Language brokering profiles of Mexican‐origin adolescents in immigrant communities: Social‐cultural contributors and developmental outcomes20
Supporting child and family resilience in the face of political violence: Evidence from a home visit parenting program20
The role of accuracy in children's judgments of experts' knowledge19
Can guidance during play enhance children’s learning and development in educational contexts? A systematic review and meta‐analysis19
Measuring the quality of early childhood education: Associations with children’s development from a national study with the IMCEIC tool in Colombia19
When friendships surpass parental relationships as predictors of long‐term outcomes: Adolescent relationship qualities and adult psychosocial functioning19
How do socioeconomic attainment gaps in early mathematical ability arise?18
Parent emotional support alters the association between parent–child interbrain synchrony and interaction quality18
Cascading effects of Chinese American parents' COVID‐19 racial discrimination and racial socialization on adolescents' adjustment18
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EEG Theta Power in Bangladeshi Children: Associations With Early Experiences and Cognitive Outcomes18
Correction to Girls are good at STEM: Opening minds and providing evidence reduces boys' stereotyping of girls' STEM ability18
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Utility of the social skills improvement system–rating scales for capturing dynamic social constructs: Evidence using the measurement model of derivatives17
Metamemory for involuntary autobiographical memories and semantic mind‐pops in 5‐, 7‐ and 9‐year‐old children and young adults17
Examining the effectiveness of a video‐based parent–child program on executive functions for children  5 to 6 years old: A randomized controlled trial17
Temporal cortex activation explains children’s improvement in math attitudes16
Priming group identities affects children's resource distribution among groups16
Anti‐phasic oscillatory development for speech and noise processing in cochlear implanted toddlers16
Parents' responses to children's math performance in early elementary school: Links with parents' math beliefs and children's math adjustment16
Preschoolers rely on rich speech representations to process variable speech16
Erratum: A mediation meta‐analysis of the role of maternal responsivity in the association between socioeconomic risk and children's language15
The complex associations between scientific reasoning and advanced theory of mind15
Material hardship and telomere length in children15
Developmental patterns of affective attention across the first 2 years of life15
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Early life stress and behavior problems in early childhood: Investigating the contributions of child temperament and executive functions to resilience15
Medium‐term protective effects of quality early childhood education during the COVID‐19 pandemic in Ghana15
A human rights approach: The right to education in the time of COVID‐1915
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Co‐rumination between friends: Considering the roles of outcome expectations, relationship provisions, and perceptions of problems14
Learning Loopholes: The Development of Intentional Misunderstandings in Children14
Is Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch‐up effective for parents with insecure attachment states of mind?14
Infants and toddlers leverage their understanding of action goals to evaluate agents who help others14
White adolescents' racial contexts: Associations with critical action14
Letter–speech sound integration in typical reading development during the first years of formal education14
Cohort differences in the development of civic engagement during adolescence14
Parents’ daily involvement in children’s math homework and activities during early elementary school14
Six‐Year‐Olds, but Not Younger Children, Consider the Probability of Being Right by Chance When Inferring Others' Knowledge14
The development of commitment: Attention for intention14
Theta power relates to infant object encoding in naturalistic mother‐infant interactions14
A family systems investigation on couple emotional intimacy, parent–child relationships, and child social skills in middle childhood13
Effects of spatial boundaries on episodic memory development13
Building a space to dream: Supporting indigenous children's survivance through community‐engaged social and emotional learning13
Effects of homicide timing on test scores: Quasi‐experimental evidence from two cities in Colombia13
Scaffolding the emergence of infant helping: A longitudinal experiment13
Adolescents' Race Consciousness Strengthens Broader Awareness of Societal Inequality13
Gene–environment interplay linking perceived parental supervision and peer drunkenness with Chinese adolescent alcohol initiation13
Children's moral evaluations of and behaviors toward people who are curious about religion and science13
Greasing (small) palms: Early rejection of bribery13
Development of prosocial behavior and inhibitory control in late childhood: A longitudinal exploration of sex differences and reciprocal relations13
Automatic Extraction of Meaning From Visual Number Symbols Detected by Frequency‐Tagged EEG in Children12
Dynamic self‐regulation and coregulation of respiratory sinus arrhythmia in mother–child and father–child interactions: Moderating effects of proximal and distal stressors12
A robot is watching me!: Five‐year‐old children care about their reputation after interaction with a social robot12
Pointing out learning opportunities reduces overparenting12
“Some people will tell jokes to you; some people be racist:” A mixed‐method examination of racist jokes and adolescents’ well‐being12
Investigating if high‐quality kindergarten teachers sustain the pre‐K boost to children's emergent literacy skill development in North Carolina12
Multimodal Measurement of Pubertal Development: Stage, Timing, Tempo, and Hormones12
Efficacy of a cultural adaptation of theIdentity Projectintervention among adolescents attending multiethnic classrooms in Italy: A randomized controlled trial12
Early social communication development in infants with autism spectrum disorder12
The future is present in the past: A meta‐analysis on the longitudinal associations of parent–adolescent relationships with peer and romantic relationships12
Intimate partner violence during infancy and cognitive outcomes in middle childhood: Results from an Australian community‐based mother and child cohort study12
Maternal depression, parenting, and child psychological outcomes in the context of maternal pain11
Antecedents to and outcomes associated with teacher–child relationship perceptions in early childhood: Further evidence for child‐driven effects11
Parent–adolescent communication in a digital world: A 100‐day diary study11
Seeking versus receiving help: How children integrate suggestions in memory decisions11
Parent–Child Joint Behaviors in Novel Object Play Create High‐Quality Data for Word Learning11
Trajectories and predictors of adolescent purpose development in self‐driven learning11
Do home mathematical activities relate to early mathematical skills? A systematic review and meta‐analysis11
Frontal asymmetry assessed in infancy using functional near‐infrared spectroscopy is associated with emotional and behavioral problems in early childhood11
You can’t change the past: Children’s recognition of the causal asymmetry between past and future events11
A counting intervention promotes fair sharing in preschoolers11
“Oh, the places you'll go”: The psychological consequences of omission and misrepresentation for Native children10
The neural correlates of working memory training in typically developing children10
A Cross‐Cultural Analysis of Infants' Spatial Attention on the Infant Orienting With Attention (IOWA) Task10
A cultural lens on Yucatec Maya families’ COVID‐19 experiences10
Distressing testing: A propensity score analysis of high‐stakes exam failure and mental health10
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Seeing awe: How children perceive awe‐inspiring visual experiences10
Developments in Children's Evaluations of and Reasoning About Disability‐Related Accommodations10
Developmental trajectories of Korean and heritage language proficiencies and their association with maladjustment among Korean multicultural adolescents10
Theoretical and Quantitative Disconnect When Modeling Adverse Childhood Experiences Using a Common Factor Framework: An Argument for Causal Indicator Models in Stressor Research10
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Attention to novelty interferes with toddlers' emerging memory decision‐making10
Delay of gratification and adult outcomes: The Marshmallow Test does not reliably predict adult functioning10
Do reflection prompts promote children's conflict monitoring and revision of misconceptions?10
In their own words: Finding meaning in girls' experiences of puberty10
Family‐level profiles of parental reactions to emotions: Longitudinal associations with multi‐informant reports of adolescent internalizing and externalizing symptoms10
The effects of maternal input on language in the absence of genetic confounds: Vocabulary development in internationally adopted children10
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Racial discrimination and the moderating effects of racial and ethnic socialization on the mental health of Asian American youth9
Developmental changes in the structure of shyness and internalizing symptoms from early to middle childhood: A network analysis9
Conceptualizing adverse childhood experiences as a latent factor: Tests of measurement invariance across five racial and ethnic groups9
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“Plan chunking” expands 3‐year‐olds' ability to complete multiple‐step plans9
Differential psychophysiological responses associated with decision‐making in children from different socioeconomic backgrounds9
Do more hours in center‐based care cause more externalizing problems? A cross‐national replication study9
Trajectories of socially anxious behavior from age 5 to 13: Temperamental and sociocognitive pathways9
Links Between Child Executive Function and Adjustment: A Three‐Site Study9
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Children’s screen and problematic media use in the United States before and during the COVID‐19 pandemic9
The representation of emotion knowledge across development9
Early‐life threat and deprivation: Are children similarly affected by exposure to each?9
Strong cultural connectedness buffers urban American Indian children from the negative effects of stress on mental health9
Maltreatment type differences in cortisol stress response trajectories across adolescence9
Critical, active, and well adapted: Antecedents and consequences of adolescents' critical consciousness profiles9
Self‐regulation and comprehension in shared reading: The moderating effects of verbal interactions and E‐book discussion prompts9
Bidirectional associations between nightly sleep and daily happiness and negative mood in adolescents9
Connecting the tots: Strong looking‐pointing correlations in preschoolers' word learning and implications for continuity in language development9
Need for Cognition Predicts Academic Interest Development but Not the Other Way Around: A Longitudinal Study of Secondary School Students9
Emotions or cognitions first? Longitudinal relations between executive functions and emotion regulation in childhood9
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Changes in children’s anger, sadness, and persistence across blocked goals: Implications for self‐regulation9
An exploration of the domain specificity of maternal sensitivity among a diverse sample in the infancy period: Unique paths to child outcomes9
Margarita glasses and high heels: How attention to shape, age, and vocabulary impacts children's recognition of typical and atypical exemplars9
Goal‐directedness enhances letter‐speech sound learning and consolidation in an unknown orthography8
Overheard evaluative comments: Implications for beliefs about effort and ability8
Trajectories of early childhood family instability and the development of externalizing behaviors from middle childhood to adolescence: A prospective study of at‐risk families8
Early childhood naps initiate emotional memory processing in preparation for enhanced overnight consolidation8
Parental sensitivity and child behavioral problems: A meta‐analytic review8
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Language, ambiguity, and executive functions in adolescents' theory of mind8
Towards a general modeling framework of resource competition in cognitive development8
Girls are good at STEM: Opening minds and providing evidence reduces boys' stereotyping of girls' STEM ability8
24‐Hour movement behaviors and executive functions in preschoolers: A compositional and isotemporal reallocation analysis8
Children gradually construct spatial representations of temporal events8
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Parental differential treatment of siblings linked with internalizing and externalizing behavior: A meta‐analysis8
Effects of the COVID‐19 pandemic on caregiver mental health and the child caregiving environment in a low‐resource, rural context8
Gesture Production Selectively Predicts Language Outcomes in Spanish‐English Bilingual Children8
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Fathers' Food Parenting Practices and Children's Diets8
Inhibitory control, dyadic social behavior, and mental health difficulties in preschoolers8
Causal Effects of an Ecologically Valid Home Numeracy Intervention on Preschoolers' Numeracy Skills8
Presidential Address: Forging a developmental science mission to improve population outcomes and eliminate disparities for young children7
A longitudinal examination of executive function abilities, attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder, and puberty in adolescence7
Does evidentiality support source monitoring and false belief understanding? A cross‐linguistic study with Turkish‐ and English‐speaking children7
Perceived parental social support and psychological control predict depressive symptoms for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, or questioning youth in the United States7
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A deeper dive, a wider pool: Preschool benefits sustain to first grade on a broader set of outcomes7
Co‐recovery of physical size and cognitive ability from infancy to adolescence: A twin study7
Adolescents’ sleep and adjustment: Reciprocal effects7
Paths to postsecondary education enrollment among adolescents with and without childhood attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD): A longitudinal analysis of symptom and academic trajectories7
Development of categorical speech perception in Mandarin‐speaking children and adolescents7
Observed dyadic racial socialization disrupts the association between frequent discriminatory experiences and emotional reactivity among Black adolescents7
Counterfactual choices and moral judgments in children7
Easy or difficult? Children's understanding of how supply and demand affect goal completion7
Development of information integration in the visual working memory of preschoolers7
Links between justice sensitivity and moral reasoning, moral emotions, and moral identity in middle childhood7
Exploring academic and cognitive skills impacting retention and acquisition of word‐problem knowledge gained during or after intervention7
The impact of a community‐based music program during infancy on the quality of parent–child language interactions7
Early childhood language gains, kindergarten readiness, and Grade 3 reading achievement7
Reading to learn? The co‐development of mathematics and reading during primary school7
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Children's socio‐moral judgments and behaviors toward peers with and without incarcerated parents7
A defensive mindset: A pattern of social information processing that develops early and predicts life course outcomes7
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Can resilience change over time? Patterns and transitions in resilience among young children involved with the child welfare system7
Global estimates of the implications of COVID‐19‐related preprimary school closures for children’s instructional access, development, learning, and economic wellbeing7
Children's Evaluations of Empathizers7
Daily links between Latinx siblings’ relationship qualities and mood7
Links between repeating and growing pattern knowledge and math outcomes in children and adults7
Configurations of mother–child and father–child attachment relationships as predictors of child language competence: An individual participant data meta‐analysis7
Understanding adjustment profiles among Mexican‐origin adolescents over time: A focus on cultural risk and resilience factors7
Becoming fictional storytellers: African American children's oral narrative development in early elementary school7
Flexibility in valenced reinforcement learning computations across development6
Are there positive effects of having a sibling with special needs? Empathy and prosociality of twins of children with non‐typical development6
Infant‐directed speech does not always involve exaggerated vowel distinctions: Evidence from Danish6
Impact of daily neighborhood crime on nightly sleep among adolescents6
Spanking and externalizing problems: Examining within‐subject associations6
Does having vulnerable friends help vulnerable youth? The co‐evolution of friendships, victimization, and depressive symptoms in Chinese adolescents' social networks6
The effectiveness of moral disengagement and social norms as anti‐bullying components: A randomized controlled trial6
Antiracism defined as equitable sociocultural interactions in prekindergarten: Classroom racial composition makes a difference6
Is Uncertainty in the Eyes or in Parents' Talk? Linking an Eye‐Tracking Measure of Toddlers' Core Metacognition to Parental Metacognitive Talk6
Meeting in school: Cultural diversity approaches of teachers and intergroup contact among ethnic minority and majority adolescents6
Children's overestimation of performance across age, task, and historical time: Ameta‐analysis6
How retributive motives shape the emergence of third‐party punishment across intergroup contexts6
Formal theories clarify the complex: Generalizing a neural process account of the interaction of visual exploration and word learning in infancy6
Late Development of Early Visual Perception: No Topology‐Priority in Peripheral Vision Until Age 106
Do chimpanzees reason logically?6
Quantifying social skill deficits and strengths profiles in autistic youth6
A metascience investigation of inclusive, open, and reproducible science practices in research posters at the 2021 SRCD biennial meeting6
The NIH Infant and Toddler Toolbox: A new standardized tool for assessing neurodevelopment in children ages 1–42 months6
An empirical test of prototype and revisionist models of attachment stability and change from middle childhood to adolescence: A 6‐year longitudinal study6
Overcoming human exceptionalism: The role of ethical nature‐culture relations in the developmental contexts of indigenous children6
Children's Developing Understanding of the Value of Disagreement for Learning6
Bicultural competence and academic adjustment across Latino youth adaptation from high school to college6
Children's expectations of nationality‐based behaviors differ for immigrants and nonimmigrants6
Children's developing ability to adjust their beliefs reasonably in light of disagreement6
Object labeling and disambiguation in 4‐month‐old infants6
EEG N1 Specialization to Print in Chinese Primary School Students: Developmental Trajectories, Longitudinal Changes, and Individual Differences6
Being versus appearing smart: Children’s developing intuitions about how reputational motives guide behavior6
Exploration, exploitation, and development: Developmental shifts in decision‐making5
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