Child Development

Papers
(The median citation count of Child Development is 6. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
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The Role of Controllability and Foreseeability in Children's Counterfactual Emotions495
The N2 During Preschool: Temporal Stability and a Test of Bidirectional Effects With Maternal Emotion Characteristics in a White, European-American Sample145
A Pre-registered sticky mittens study: active training does not increase reaching and grasping in a swedish context54
Adolescent caregiving success as a predictor of social functioning from ages 13 to 3350
Strengthening parental self-efficacy and resilience: A within-subject experimental study with refugee parents of adolescents46
Development of literacy skills for Japanese deaf and hard-of-hearing children46
Development of complex executive function over childhood: Longitudinal growth curve modeling of performance on the Groton Maze Learning Task46
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 data39
Children's Trait Inference and Partner Choice in a Cooperative Game38
Messaging about descriptive and injunctive norms can promote honesty in young children38
Children's Understanding of How Past Experience Shapes Future Expectations37
Mentalistic and normative frameworks in children's explanations of others' behaviors36
Language development beyond the here-and-now: Iconicity and displacement in child-directed communication36
Children and adults' intuitions of what people can believe35
Gahvora cradling in Tajikistan: Cultural practices and associations with motor development34
Children's evaluations of interracial peer inclusion and exclusion: The role of intimacy32
Paternal and maternal rejection and Chinese children's internalizing and externalizing problems across the transition to siblinghood: A developmental cascade model of family influence31
Learning apps at home prepare children for school30
Links between shared and unique perspectives of parental psychological control and adolescent emotional problems: A dyadic daily diary study30
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Emotion transmission in peer dyads in middle childhood28
Simulating peers: Can puppets simulate peer interactions in studies on children's socio-cognitive development?27
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Early Vocabulary Acquisition: From Birth Order Effect to Child-to-Caregiver Ratio27
Control–value appraisals and academic emotions: An intensive longitudinal examination of reciprocal effects27
How does caregiver–child conversation during a scientific storybook reading impact children's mindset beliefs and persistence?26
Learning Variability Network Exchange (LEVANTE): A Global Framework for Measuring Children's Learning Variability Through Collaborative Data Sharing25
DNA methylation variation after a parenting program for child conduct problems: Findings from a randomized controlled trial24
Mother–child collaboration in an Indigenous community: Changing and enduring across generations23
Longitudinal links between maternal cultural socialization, peer ethnic-racial discrimination, and ethnic-racial pride in Mexican American youth23
Young children's adaptive partner choice in cooperation and competition contexts23
Language-specific phonological skills and the relationship with reading accuracy in Sylheti-English sequential bilinguals23
Latent profiles of children's shyness: Behavioral, affective, and physiological components23
Mothers speak less to infants during detected real-world phone use22
The development of early numeracy in deaf and hard of hearing children acquiring spoken language22
Childhood poverty, immune cell aging, and African Americans' insulin resistance: A prospective study22
Genetic and environmental contributions to individual differences in visual attention and oculomotor control in early infancy22
A meta-analysis of forgiveness education interventions’ effects on forgiveness and anger in children and adolescents21
Peer victimization and empathy for victims of bullying: A test of bidirectional associations in childhood and adolescence21
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Childcare Center Attendance During the Covid-19 Pandemic: Boosting Cognitive and Language Development20
Does early child negative emotionality moderate the association between maternal stimulation and academic readiness and achievement?20
Sibling effects on problem and prosocial behavior in childhood: Patterns of intrafamilial “contagion” by birth order20
Mechanisms and pathways linking kindergarten behavior problems with mid-life employment earnings for males from low-income neighborhoods20
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' knowledge20
Are victims of bullying primarily social outcasts? Person-group dissimilarities in relational, socio-behavioral, and physical characteristics as predictors of victimization20
Are mobile phone ownership and age of acquisition associated with child adjustment? A 5-year prospective study among low-income Latinx children19
Interparental conflict dimensions and children's psychological problems: Emotion recognition as a mediator19
Language brokering profiles of Mexican-origin adolescents in immigrant communities: Social-cultural contributors and developmental outcomes19
How a Preschool Intervention Affected High School Outcomes: Longitudinal Pathways in a Randomized-Controlled Trial19
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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 Scaling19
Parent emotional support alters the association between parent–child interbrain synchrony and interaction quality19
How do socioeconomic attainment gaps in early mathematical ability arise?18
Utility of the social skills improvement system–rating scales for capturing dynamic social constructs: Evidence using the measurement model of derivatives18
EEG Theta Power in Bangladeshi Children: Associations With Early Experiences and Cognitive Outcomes18
Metamemory for involuntary autobiographical memories and semantic mind-pops in 5-, 7- and 9-year-old children and young adults18
Preschoolers rely on rich speech representations to process variable speech18
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Material hardship and telomere length in children17
Correction to Girls are good at STEM: Opening minds and providing evidence reduces boys' stereotyping of girls' STEM ability17
Parents' responses to children's math performance in early elementary school: Links with parents' math beliefs and children's math adjustment17
Medium-term protective effects of quality early childhood education during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ghana17
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Cascading effects of Chinese American parents' COVID-19 racial discrimination and racial socialization on adolescents' adjustment17
Priming group identities affects children's resource distribution among groups17
Developmental patterns of affective attention across the first 2 years of life17
Examining the effectiveness of a video-based parent–child program on executive functions for children 5 to 6 years old: A randomized controlled trial17
Viewing Teens as Responsible in Family: Implications for Chinese Youth's Academic and Social Adjustment17
Anti-phasic oscillatory development for speech and noise processing in cochlear implanted toddlers17
The complex associations between scientific reasoning and advanced theory of mind16
White adolescents' racial contexts: Associations with critical action16
Children's moral evaluations of and behaviors toward people who are curious about religion and science16
Letter–speech sound integration in typical reading development during the first years of formal education16
Infants and toddlers leverage their understanding of action goals to evaluate agents who help others16
Co-rumination between friends: Considering the roles of outcome expectations, relationship provisions, and perceptions of problems16
Is Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up effective for parents with insecure attachment states of mind?16
Learning Loopholes: The Development of Intentional Misunderstandings in Children16
Parents’ daily involvement in children’s math homework and activities during early elementary school16
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Six-Year-Olds, but Not Younger Children, Consider the Probability of Being Right by Chance When Inferring Others' Knowledge16
Gene–environment interplay linking perceived parental supervision and peer drunkenness with Chinese adolescent alcohol initiation16
Earning More Points!: The Impact of Value on Children's Memory and Self-Regulated Learning Strategies16
A family systems investigation on couple emotional intimacy, parent–child relationships, and child social skills in middle childhood15
Effects of spatial boundaries on episodic memory development15
Theta power relates to infant object encoding in naturalistic mother-infant interactions15
Adolescents' Race Consciousness Strengthens Broader Awareness of Societal Inequality15
The development of commitment: Attention for intention15
Greasing (small) palms: Early rejection of bribery15
Efficacy of a cultural adaptation of the Identity Project intervention among adolescents attending multiethnic classrooms in Italy: A randomized controll15
Automatic Extraction of Meaning From Visual Number Symbols Detected by Frequency-Tagged EEG in Children15
Effects of homicide timing on test scores: Quasi-experimental evidence from two cities in Colombia15
A counting intervention promotes fair sharing in preschoolers14
Development of prosocial behavior and inhibitory control in late childhood: A longitudinal exploration of sex differences and reciprocal relations14
Frontal asymmetry assessed in infancy using functional near-infrared spectroscopy is associated with emotional and behavioral problems in early childhood14
“Some people will tell jokes to you; some people be racist:” A mixed-method examination of racist jokes and adolescents’ well-being14
Maternal depression, parenting, and child psychological outcomes in the context of maternal pain14
The future is present in the past: A meta-analysis on the longitudinal associations of parent–adolescent relationships with peer and romantic relationships14
Seeking versus receiving help: How children integrate suggestions in memory decisions14
Pointing out learning opportunities reduces overparenting14
You can’t change the past: Children’s recognition of the causal asymmetry between past and future events14
Trajectories and predictors of adolescent purpose development in self-driven learning14
Distressing testing: A propensity score analysis of high-stakes exam failure and mental health13
Conceptualizing adverse childhood experiences as a latent factor: Tests of measurement invariance across five racial and ethnic groups13
Developments in Children's Evaluations of and Reasoning About Disability-Related Accommodations13
Need for Cognition Predicts Academic Interest Development but Not the Other Way Around: A Longitudinal Study of Secondary School Students13
Cutting It Too Fine? The Factor Structure of Fine Motor Skills From Ages 5 to 10 Years13
A robot is watching me!: Five-year-old children care about their reputation after interaction with a social robot13
Parent–adolescent communication in a digital world: A 100-day diary study13
Seeing awe: How children perceive awe-inspiring visual experiences13
Attention to novelty interferes with toddlers' emerging memory decision-making13
Investigating if high-quality kindergarten teachers sustain the pre-K boost to children's emergent literacy skill development in North Carolina13
Antecedents to and outcomes associated with teacher–child relationship perceptions in early childhood: Further evidence for child-driven effects13
Theoretical and Quantitative Disconnect When Modeling Adverse Childhood Experiences Using a Common Factor Framework: An Argument for Causal Indicator Models in Stressor Research13
Do home mathematical activities relate to early mathematical skills? A systematic review and meta-analysis13
A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Infants' Spatial Attention on the Infant Orienting With Attention (IOWA) Task13
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Dynamic self-regulation and coregulation of respiratory sinus arrhythmia in mother–child and father–child interactions: Moderating effects of proximal and distal stressors13
Multimodal Measurement of Pubertal Development: Stage, Timing, Tempo, and Hormones13
In their own words: Finding meaning in girls' experiences of puberty12
Developmental trajectories of Korean and heritage language proficiencies and their association with maladjustment among Korean multicultural adolescents12
Do reflection prompts promote children's conflict monitoring and revision of misconceptions?12
“Oh, the places you'll go”: The psychological consequences of omission and misrepresentation for Native children12
Family-level profiles of parental reactions to emotions: Longitudinal associations with multi-informant reports of adolescent internalizing and externalizing symptoms12
Developmental changes in the structure of shyness and internalizing symptoms from early to middle childhood: A network analysis12
Delay of gratification and adult outcomes: The Marshmallow Test does not reliably predict adult functioning12
Popularity and Academic Adjustment in the United States and China: A Meta-Analytic Study12
Trajectories of socially anxious behavior from age 5 to 13: Temperamental and sociocognitive pathways12
“Plan chunking” expands 3-year-olds' ability to complete multiple-step plans12
Bidirectional associations between nightly sleep and daily happiness and negative mood in adolescents11
Margarita glasses and high heels: How attention to shape, age, and vocabulary impacts children's recognition of typical and atypical exemplars11
Emotions or cognitions first? Longitudinal relations between executive functions and emotion regulation in childhood11
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Fathers' Food Parenting Practices and Children's Diets11
Self-regulation and comprehension in shared reading: The moderating effects of verbal interactions and E-book discussion prompts11
Foster Care Entry and Later Academic Achievement Among Infants Involved With Child Protective Services11
Strong cultural connectedness buffers urban American Indian children from the negative effects of stress on mental health11
Early childhood naps initiate emotional memory processing in preparation for enhanced overnight consolidation11
An exploration of the domain specificity of maternal sensitivity among a diverse sample in the infancy period: Unique paths to child outcomes11
Links Between Child Executive Function and Adjustment: A Three-Site Study11
Connecting the tots: Strong looking-pointing correlations in preschoolers' word learning and implications for continuity in language development11
Critical, active, and well adapted: Antecedents and consequences of adolescents' critical consciousness profiles11
24-Hour movement behaviors and executive functions in preschoolers: A compositional and isotemporal reallocation analysis11
Early-life threat and deprivation: Are children similarly affected by exposure to each?11
Overheard evaluative comments: Implications for beliefs about effort and ability10
Gesture Production Selectively Predicts Language Outcomes in Spanish-English Bilingual Children10
Differential psychophysiological responses associated with decision-making in children from different socioeconomic backgrounds10
Girls are good at STEM: Opening minds and providing evidence reduces boys' stereotyping of girls' STEM ability10
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Parental differential treatment of siblings linked with internalizing and externalizing behavior: A meta-analysis10
Understanding adjustment profiles among Mexican-origin adolescents over time: A focus on cultural risk and resilience factors10
Goal-directedness enhances letter-speech sound learning and consolidation in an unknown orthography10
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Changes in children’s anger, sadness, and persistence across blocked goals: Implications for self-regulation10
Language, ambiguity, and executive functions in adolescents' theory of mind10
Parental sensitivity and child behavioral problems: A meta-analytic review10
Development of information integration in the visual working memory of preschoolers10
Maltreatment type differences in cortisol stress response trajectories across adolescence10
Towards a general modeling framework of resource competition in cognitive development10
Children gradually construct spatial representations of temporal events10
Causal Effects of an Ecologically Valid Home Numeracy Intervention on Preschoolers' Numeracy Skills10
Do more hours in center-based care cause more externalizing problems? A cross-national replication study10
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Do chimpanzees reason logically?9
Quantifying social skill deficits and strengths profiles in autistic youth9
Children's socio-moral judgments and behaviors toward peers with and without incarcerated parents9
A longitudinal examination of executive function abilities, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, and puberty in adolescence9
Children's Evaluations of Empathizers9
Does evidentiality support source monitoring and false belief understanding? A cross-linguistic study with Turkish- and English-speaking children9
Can resilience change over time? Patterns and transitions in resilience among young children involved with the child welfare system9
Configurations of mother–child and father–child attachment relationships as predictors of child language competence: An individual participant data meta-analysis9
Perceived parental social support and psychological control predict depressive symptoms for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, or questioning youth in the United States9
Does having vulnerable friends help vulnerable youth? The co-evolution of friendships, victimization, and depressive symptoms in Chinese adolescents' social networks9
Paths to postsecondary education enrollment among adolescents with and without childhood attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD): A longitudinal analysis of symptom and academic trajectories9
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Becoming fictional storytellers: African American children's oral narrative development in early elementary school9
Easy or difficult? Children's understanding of how supply and demand affect goal completion9
One, Two, Three, Eyes on Me: Infant EEG Power Predicts Toddler Executive Functioning Through Infant Attention9
Early childhood language gains, kindergarten readiness, and Grade 3 reading achievement9
The impact of a community-based music program during infancy on the quality of parent–child language interactions9
A deeper dive, a wider pool: Preschool benefits sustain to first grade on a broader set of outcomes9
Reading to learn? The co-development of mathematics and reading during primary school9
Development of categorical speech perception in Mandarin-speaking children and adolescents9
Links between repeating and growing pattern knowledge and math outcomes in children and adults9
Daily links between Latinx siblings’ relationship qualities and mood9
Co-recovery of physical size and cognitive ability from infancy to adolescence: A twin study9
Exploring academic and cognitive skills impacting retention and acquisition of word-problem knowledge gained during or after intervention9
Counterfactual choices and moral judgments in children9
Overcoming human exceptionalism: The role of ethical nature-culture relations in the developmental contexts of indigenous children8
The NIH Infant and Toddler Toolbox: A new standardized tool for assessing neurodevelopment in children ages 1–42 months8
Formal theories clarify the complex: Generalizing a neural process account of the interaction of visual exploration and word learning in infancy8
Children's expectations of nationality-based behaviors differ for immigrants and nonimmigrants8
Meeting in school: Cultural diversity approaches of teachers and intergroup contact among ethnic minority and majority adolescents8
Development of teaching in ni-Vanuatu children8
Object labeling and disambiguation in 4-month-old infants8
EEG N1 Specialization to Print in Chinese Primary School Students: Developmental Trajectories, Longitudinal Changes, and Individual Differences8
How retributive motives shape the emergence of third-party punishment across intergroup contexts8
Flexibility in valenced reinforcement learning computations across development8
Is Uncertainty in the Eyes or in Parents' Talk? Linking an Eye-Tracking Measure of Toddlers' Core Metacognition to Parental Metacognitive Talk8
Infant-directed speech does not always involve exaggerated vowel distinctions: Evidence from Danish8
Mitigating invalid and mischievous survey responses: A registered report examining risk disparities between heterosexual and lesbian, gay, bisexual, or questioning youth8
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Children's developing ability to adjust their beliefs reasonably in light of disagreement8
A metascience investigation of inclusive, open, and reproducible science practices in research posters at the 2021 SRCD biennial meeting8
Impact of daily neighborhood crime on nightly sleep among adolescents8
Children's Developing Understanding of the Value of Disagreement for Learning8
Bicultural competence and academic adjustment across Latino youth adaptation from high school to college8
Children’s overestimation of performance across age, task, and historical time: A meta-analysis8
Associations between a metal mixture and infant negative affectivity: Effect modification by prenatal cortisol and infant sex8
The effectiveness of moral disengagement and social norms as anti-bullying components: A randomized controlled trial8
Disentangling genetic and environmental influences on early language development: The interplay of genetic propensity for negative emotionality and surgency, and parenting behavior effects on early la7
Young Children's and Caregivers' Evaluations About Household Helping: Balancing the Interests of Helper and Recipient7
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White children's empathy-related responding and prosocial behavior toward White and Black children7
She made it with her friend: How social object history influences children's thinking about the value of digital objects7
Personal Identity Development in Chinese Early Adolescents: Predictions From Parenting Style and Peer Relationships7
Hidden talents in context: Cognitive performance with abstract versus ecological stimuli among adversity-exposed youth7
“She's so pretty”: The development of valuing personal attractiveness among young children7
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Parenting centers and caregiver mental health: Evidence from a large-scale randomized controlled trial in China7
Talking to talkers: Infants' talk status, but not their gender, is related to language input7
Environmental inequality and disparities in school readiness: The role of neurotoxic lead7
Presidential Address: Parenting in Context, A Journey in Interdisciplinary and Multisector Research7
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Exploration, exploitation, and development: Developmental shifts in decision-making7
Childhood Environmental Unpredictability and Adolescent Mental Health and Behavioral Problems7
Evocative effects on the early caregiving environment of genetic factors underlying the development of intellectual and academic ability7
Cumulative family stress and externalizing problems: Secure base script knowledge as a protective factor7
The important role of mothers during displacement: Direct and indirect effects of the refugee context on Syrian refugee children's mental health7
Formalizing developmental phenomena as continuous-time systems: Relations between mathematics and language development7
Coordinating movements and beliefs: Different facets of doing things together7
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The Dynamics of Perception in Caregiving: How Infants Change the Way We See the World7
Physiological reactivity to fear moderates the relation between parenting distress with conduct and prosocial behaviors7
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Children consider informants' explanation quality with their social dominance in seeking novel explanations7
Heterogeneity in the Developmental Trajectories of Chinese Youth Educational Aspirations: Identifying Predictors and Outcomes7
Autistic traits and self-conscious emotions in early childhood7
The influence of social status on children's merit-based resource allocation: The potential explanation of expectation7
The linguistic complexity of adult and child contextualized and decontextualized talk7
Religious polarization and justification of belief in invisible scientific versus religious entities6
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Subtypes of mathematical learning disability and their antecedents: A cognitive diagnostic approach6
Trajectories of digital flourishing in adolescence: The predictive roles of developmental changes and digital divide factors6
Bigger versus smaller : Children's understanding of size comparison words becomes more precise with age6
Tracking what went where across toddlerhood: Feature-location bound object representations in 2- to 3-year-olds' working memory6
Children's judgments on the acceptability of prejudice6
A Longitudinal Study of Multidimensional Prosocial Behavior During Adolescence6
Using the Mobile Toolbox in child and adolescent samples: A feasibility study6
Does defending victimized peers put youth at risk of being victimized?6
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