Child Development

Papers
(The median citation count of Child Development is 2. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
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Maturation of consonant perception, but not vowel perception, predicts lexical skills at 12 months127
A Complex Systems Network Approach to Quantifying Peer Effects: Evidence From Ghanaian Preprimary Classrooms78
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Social goals as predictors of children's in vivo emotional responses to social challenges70
Connecting Language Abilities and Social Competence in Children: A Meta‐Analytic Review49
Does early childhood education help to improve high school outcomes? Results from Tulsa48
Distinct Profiles of Relationships With Mothers, Fathers, and Best Friends and Social‐Behavioral Functioning in Early Adolescence: A Cross‐Cultural Study47
Children seek help based on how others learn44
Does having vulnerable friends help vulnerable youth? The co‐evolution of friendships, victimization, and depressive symptoms in Chinese adolescents' social networks39
Reasoning to Justify Eating Animals Varies With Age38
Waste Aversion Reduces Inequity Aversion Among Chinese Children37
Early Adolescents’ Food Selection After Evaluating the Healthiness of Remote Peers’ Food Choices36
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Elementary disruptions? Exploring residential move type, timing, and duration of implications during middle childhood34
Greasing (small) palms: Early rejection of bribery32
Effects of spatial boundaries on episodic memory development31
Developmental associations between risk‐taking and anxiety symptoms across ages 8–12 years30
Multiple pathways of integration: Acculturative change and associations with school adjustment in immigrant‐origin adolescents30
Cheating and the effect of promises in Indian and German children29
Development of prosocial behavior and inhibitory control in late childhood: A longitudinal exploration of sex differences and reciprocal relations29
Can you teach me not to be angry? Relations between temperament and the emotion regulation strategy distraction in 2‐year‐olds28
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Learning apps at home prepare children for school26
Theta power relates to infant object encoding in naturalistic mother‐infant interactions26
Be there on time: Spatial‐temporal regularities guide young children’s attention in dynamic environments25
Do chimpanzees reason logically?24
Development of literacy skills for Japanese deaf and hard‐of‐hearing children24
Mentalistic and normative frameworks in children's explanations of others' behaviors24
Children and adults' intuitions of what people can believe24
Methodological considerations for more robust and reliable developmental science: How historical conventions bias behavioral measurements23
A Pre‐registered sticky mittens study: active training does not increase reaching and grasping in a swedish context23
Paths to postsecondary education enrollment among adolescents with and without childhood attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD): A longitudinal analysis of symptom and academic trajectories23
Children's socio‐moral judgments and behaviors toward peers with and without incarcerated parents23
Children's moral evaluations of and behaviors toward people who are curious about religion and science22
Infant Temperament Profiles, Cultural Orientation, and Toddler Behavioral and Physiological Regulation in Mexican‐American Families22
Enjoyment of Chinese and mathematics and school performance in Chinese children and adolescents22
Developmental Pathways Between Infant Gestures and Symbolic Actions, and Children’s Communicative Skills at Age 5: Findings From the All Our Families Pregnancy Cohort21
Letter–speech sound integration in typical reading development during the first years of formal education21
Treating children's aggressive behavior problems using cognitive behavior therapy with virtual reality: A multicenter randomized controlled trial21
Instability, changes, and internal structure of children's attitudes toward mathematics in primary school: A four‐wave investigation21
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Effects of homicide timing on test scores: Quasi‐experimental evidence from two cities in Colombia21
Putting Mutual Exclusivity in Context: Speaker Race Influences Monolingual and Bilingual Infants’ Word‐Learning Assumptions20
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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”20
The contribution of the amount of linguistic exposure to bilingual language development: Longitudinal evidence from preschool years20
Building an assessment of community‐defined social‐emotional competencies from the ground up in Tanzania20
Adolescents’ sleep and adjustment: Reciprocal effects20
Convergence and divergence of empathic concern and empathic happiness in early childhood: Evidence from young infants and children20
Paternal and maternal rejection and Chinese children's internalizing and externalizing problems across the transition to siblinghood: A developmental cascade model of family influence20
Reading to learn? The co‐development of mathematics and reading during primary school20
Peer‐based discrimination and adolescent emotional and sleep health: A daily examination of direct and buffering associations20
Becoming fictional storytellers: African American children's oral narrative development in early elementary school19
Tackling Scientific Misconceptions: The Element of Surprise19
The Role of Controllability and Foreseeability in Children's Counterfactual Emotions19
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 data19
Who Leads and Who Follows? The Pathways to Joint Attention During Free‐Flowing Interactions Change Over Developmental Time19
Maladaptive but malleable: Gender‐science stereotypes emerge early but are modifiable by language18
Links between shared and unique perspectives of parental psychological control and adolescent emotional problems: A dyadic daily diary study18
The impact of perceived emotions on toddlers' word learning18
Learning Loopholes: The Development of Intentional Misunderstandings in Children18
Development of complex executive function over childhood: Longitudinal growth curve modeling of performance on the Groton Maze Learning Task18
Children's evaluations of interracial peer inclusion and exclusion: The role of intimacy18
Scaffolding the emergence of infant helping: A longitudinal experiment17
Associations between cross‐racial friendships and children’s social and academic adjustment in racially diverse classrooms17
Testing the effectiveness of the Developing Inclusive Youth program: A multisite randomized control trial17
Children boost their cognitive performance with a novel offloading technique17
Latent classes of aggression and peer victimization: Measurement invariance and differential item functioning across sex, race‐ethnicity, cohort, and study site17
Gene–environment interplay linking perceived parental supervision and peer drunkenness with Chinese adolescent alcohol initiation17
Early social communication development in infants with autism spectrum disorder16
Heterogeneity in children at risk of math learning difficulties16
Guidance and Considerations When Performing Data‐Validity Checks16
The development of commitment: Attention for intention16
Linking ethnic/racial discrimination to adolescent mental health: Sleep disturbances as an explanatory pathway16
Resting state networks mediate the association between both cardiovascular fitness and gross motor skills with neurocognitive functioning16
Strengthening parental self‐efficacy and resilience: A within‐subject experimental study with refugee parents of adolescents15
Messaging about descriptive and injunctive norms can promote honesty in young children15
How fairness and dominance guide young children’s bargaining decisions14
Children's developing ability to adjust their beliefs reasonably in light of disagreement14
Emotional quality of early education programs improves language learning: A within‐child across context design14
Developing conceptions of forgiveness across the lifespan14
Child‐directed speech in a large sample of U.S. mothers with low income14
Development of categorical speech perception in Mandarin‐speaking children and adolescents14
Language acquisition in a multilingual society: English vocabulary norms and predictors in Singaporean children14
Language development beyond the here‐and‐now: Iconicity and displacement in child‐directed communication14
Using ECHO program data to develop a brief measure of caregiver support and cognitive stimulation using the home observation for measurement of the environment‐infant/toddler (HOME14
Is Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch‐up effective for parents with insecure attachment states of mind?14
“Some people will tell jokes to you; some people be racist:” A mixed‐method examination of racist jokes and adolescents’ well‐being14
The effectiveness of moral disengagement and social norms as anti‐bullying components: A randomized controlled trial14
Five‐year‐old children value reasons in apologies for belief‐based accidents14
A family systems investigation on couple emotional intimacy, parent–child relationships, and child social skills in middle childhood14
Values‐Alignment Messaging Boosts Adolescents’ Motivation to Control Social Media Use13
Efficacy of a cultural adaptation of theIdentity Projectintervention among adolescents attending multiethnic classrooms in Italy: A randomized controlled trial13
Gahvora cradling in Tajikistan: Cultural practices and associations with motor development13
Infant vocalizing and phenotypic outcomes in autism: Evidence from the first 2 years13
Applying the PROSPER prevention delivery system with middle schools: Emerging adulthood effects on substance misuse and conduct problem behaviors through 14 years past baseline13
Variation in caregivers' references to their toddlers: Child‐directed speech in Vanuatu and Canada13
Teacher Depressive Symptoms and Child Math Achievement in Head Start: The Roles of Family–Teacher Relationships and Approaches to Learning13
Dialogue with a conversational agent promotes children’s story comprehension via enhancing engagement13
The effects of maternal smartphone use on mother–child interaction13
Adolescent caregiving success as a predictor of social functioning from ages 13 to 3313
Tactile training facilitates infants' ability to reach to targets on the body12
Pointing out learning opportunities reduces overparenting12
Illuminating the landscape of sibling relationship quality: An evidence and gap map12
Academic performance and depression in Chinese children: Same‐domain and cross‐domain effects in friendships12
Why Does Classroom‐Level Victimization Moderate the Association Between Victimization and Depressive Symptoms? The “Healthy Context Paradox” and Two Explanations12
Children strategically conceal selfishness12
Building a space to dream: Supporting indigenous children's survivance through community‐engaged social and emotional learning12
Maternal Judgments of Child Numeracy and Reading Ability Predict Gains in Academic Achievement and Interest12
Antiracism defined as equitable sociocultural interactions in prekindergarten: Classroom racial composition makes a difference12
Quantifying social skill deficits and strengths profiles in autistic youth12
Concern for mianzi: Relations with adjustment in rural and urban Chinese adolescents11
Sleep, Classroom Behavior, and Achievement Among Children of Color in Historically Disinvested Neighborhoods11
Advancing opportunities for children’s informal STEM learning transfer through parent–child narrative reflection11
The development of place value concepts: Approximation before principles11
Attachment security predicts adolescents’ prosocial and health protective responses to the COVID‐19 pandemic11
Relations between children's exploration in a children's museum and their reflections about their exploration11
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The mediation effect of glucocorticoid receptor gene (NR3C1) methylation between childhood maltreatment and depressive symptoms in Chinese adolescents: A 2‐year longitudinal study11
Formal theories clarify the complex: Generalizing a neural process account of the interaction of visual exploration and word learning in infancy11
Trajectories and predictors of adolescent purpose development in self‐driven learning11
A Shift in the Direction of the Production Effect in Children Aged 2–6 Years11
Spanking and externalizing problems: Examining within‐subject associations11
Control–value appraisals and academic emotions: An intensive longitudinal examination of reciprocal effects11
The effects of maternal input on language in the absence of genetic confounds: Vocabulary development in internationally adopted children11
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Object labeling and disambiguation in 4‐month‐old infants11
The Influence of Ethnic‐Racial Identity Developmental Processes on Global Bicultural Competence Development10
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Impact of daily neighborhood crime on nightly sleep among adolescents10
Changing or stable? The effects of adolescents' social media use on psychosocial functioning10
Parent–Child Joint Behaviors in Novel Object Play Create High‐Quality Data for Word Learning10
A robot is watching me!: Five‐year‐old children care about their reputation after interaction with a social robot10
Parent–adolescent communication in a digital world: A 100‐day diary study10
Like mother like child: Differential impact of mothers' and fathers' individual language use on bilingual language exposure10
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Vicarious severe school discipline predicts racial disparities among non‐disciplined Black and White American adolescents10
Preschoolers use probabilistic evidence to flexibly change or maintain expectations on an active search task10
Children's expectations of nationality‐based behaviors differ for immigrants and nonimmigrants10
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The development of audiovisual speech perception in Mandarin‐speaking children: Evidence from the McGurk paradigm9
Prenatal Neighborhood Ethnocultural Context and the Mental Health of Mothers and Children in Low‐Income Mexican American Families9
Antecedents to and outcomes associated with teacher–child relationship perceptions in early childhood: Further evidence for child‐driven effects9
A metascience investigation of inclusive, open, and reproducible science practices in research posters at the 2021 SRCD biennial meeting9
Investigating if high‐quality kindergarten teachers sustain the pre‐K boost to children's emergent literacy skill development in North Carolina9
Registered Reports in Child Development: Introduction to the Special Section9
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Moral reasoning about gang violence in context: A comparative study with children and adolescents exposed tomarasin Honduras and not exposed in Nicaragua9
Children's distinct drive to reproduce costly rituals9
A cultural lens on Yucatec Maya families’ COVID‐19 experiences9
Young children intuitively organize numbers on straight, horizontal lines from left to right before the onset of formal instruction9
Parent socialization and anti‐racist ideology development in White youth: Do peer and parenting contexts matter?9
A longitudinal study of how women's prenatal and postnatal concerns related to the COVID‐19 pandemic predicts their infants' social–emotional development9
Infant‐directed speech does not always involve exaggerated vowel distinctions: Evidence from Danish9
Specialized and versatile antisocial behavioral profiles in preschoolers: Associations with persistent behavioral problems9
Infection detection in faces: Children's development of pathogen avoidance9
The effect of spanking on early social‐emotional skills8
Being versus appearing smart: Children’s developing intuitions about how reputational motives guide behavior8
Late Development of Early Visual Perception: No Topology‐Priority in Peripheral Vision Until Age 108
Distressing testing: A propensity score analysis of high‐stakes exam failure and mental health8
Exploring the Dynamic Interplays of Morphological Awareness and Reading Skills in Chinese Children8
More Than Growth Mindset: Individual and Interactive Links Among Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Adolescents’ Ability Mindsets, Metacognitive Skills, and Math Engagement8
Bicultural competence and academic adjustment across Latino youth adaptation from high school to college8
Dynamic self‐regulation and coregulation of respiratory sinus arrhythmia in mother–child and father–child interactions: Moderating effects of proximal and distal stressors8
Preschoolers modulate contrastive inferences during online language comprehension8
Learning the rules of the game: The role of generic “you” and “we” in shaping children's interpretations of norms8
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Emotion transmission in peer dyads in middle childhood8
Older children verify adult claims because they are skeptical of those claims8
Visual and cognitive processes contribute to age‐related improvements in visual selective attention8
Distinct environmental cues trigger spontaneous recall of past events in 3‐ and 4‐year‐old children even after long delays8
Understanding patterns of food insecurity and family well‐being amid the COVID‐19 pandemic using daily surveys8
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Multimodal Measurement of Pubertal Development: Stage, Timing, Tempo, and Hormones8
Can 5‐month‐old infants consider the perspective of a novel eyeless agent? New evidence for early mentalistic reasoning7
Nap effects on preschool children’s learning of letter‐sound mappings7
Impact of the School Environment on Medical Treatment of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: A Population‐Wide Register Data Study of School‐Wide Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports7
Princess Power: Longitudinal Associations Between Engagement With Princess Culture in Preschool and Gender Stereotypical Behavior, Body Esteem, and Hegemonic Masculinity in Early Adolescence7
Contributions of bilingual home environment and language proficiency on children’s Spanish–English reading outcomes7
The Impact of Daily Discrimination on Sleep/Wake Problem Trajectories Among Diverse Adolescents7
Paid maternal leave is associated with infant brain function at 3 months of age7
Input quality and speech perception development in bilingual infants’ first year of life7
Peer Effects on Early Language Development in Dual Language Learners7
You can’t change the past: Children’s recognition of the causal asymmetry between past and future events7
Links between parent–child conversations about emotions and changes in children's emotion knowledge across early childhood7
“This kid looks like he has everything”: 3‐ to 11‐year‐old children’s concerns for fairness and social preferences when peers differ in social class and race7
Infants’ Preference for Social Interactions Increases from 7 to 13 Months of Age7
Early life stress and perceived social isolation influence how children use value information to guide behavior7
Beyond linearity: Using IRT‐scaled level models to describe the relation between prior proportional reasoning skills and fraction learning outcomes7
Dynamic changes in perfectionism dimensions and psychological distress among adolescents assessed before and during the COVID‐19 pandemic7
Simulating peers: Can puppets simulate peer interactions in studies on children's socio‐cognitive development?7
Electrophysiological Evidence of Space‐Number Associations in 9‐Month‐Old Infants7
Seeking versus receiving help: How children integrate suggestions in memory decisions7
A counting intervention promotes fair sharing in preschoolers6
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A Cross‐Sectional Test of Sign Creation by Children in the Gesture and Vocal Modalities6
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Determinants of socioemotional and behavioral well‐being among First Nations children living off‐reserve in Canada: A cross‐sectional study6
A meta‐analysis on observed paternal and maternal sensitivity6
Children's overestimation of performance across age, task, and historical time: Ameta‐analysis6
Children selectively endorse speculative conjectures6
School readiness losses during the COVID‐19 outbreak. A comparison of two cohorts of young children6
Do siblings influence one another? Unpacking processes that occur during sibling conflict6
Adolescents’ developing awareness of inequality: Racial and ethnic differences in trajectories6
Flexibility in valenced reinforcement learning computations across development6
Developmental trajectories of Korean and heritage language proficiencies and their association with maladjustment among Korean multicultural adolescents6
Intimate partner violence during infancy and cognitive outcomes in middle childhood: Results from an Australian community‐based mother and child cohort study6
How retributive motives shape the emergence of third‐party punishment across intergroup contexts6
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Disagreement reduces overconfidence and prompts exploration in young children6
Overcoming human exceptionalism: The role of ethical nature‐culture relations in the developmental contexts of indigenous children6
Using latent transition analysis to evaluate the impact of perceived threats on emotional and behavioral development6
Religiosity as a moderator of the links between parental psychological control and children's prosociality6
Do home mathematical activities relate to early mathematical skills? A systematic review and meta‐analysis6
Are there positive effects of having a sibling with special needs? Empathy and prosociality of twins of children with non‐typical development6
Temperamental Shyness and Anger/Frustration in Childhood: Normative Development, Individual Differences, and the Impacts of Maternal Intrusiveness and Frontal Electroencephalogram Asymmetry6
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Developmental Relations Between Home Literacy Environment, Reading Interest, and Reading Skills: Evidence From a 3‐Year Longitudinal Study6
Extracurricular Activities, Screen Media Activity, and Sleep May Be Modifiable Factors Related to Children’s Cognitive Functioning: Evidence From the ABCD Study®6
Frontal asymmetry assessed in infancy using functional near‐infrared spectroscopy is associated with emotional and behavioral problems in early childhood6
Streets ahead: Neighborhood safety and active outdoor play in early childhood using a nationally representative sample of 5‐year‐olds6
The future is present in the past: A meta‐analysis on the longitudinal associations of parent–adolescent relationships with peer and romantic relationships6
How children revise their beliefs in light of reasons6
The NIH Infant and Toddler Toolbox: A new standardized tool for assessing neurodevelopment in children ages 1–42 months6
Maternal depression, parenting, and child psychological outcomes in the context of maternal pain6
Meeting in school: Cultural diversity approaches of teachers and intergroup contact among ethnic minority and majority adolescents6
Early word learning is influenced by physical environments6
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A moment of autonomy support brightens adolescents' mood: Autonomy support, psychological control and adolescent affect in everyday life6
Cultivating emotional resilience in adolescent girls: Effects of a growth emotion mindset lesson6
An empirical test of prototype and revisionist models of attachment stability and change from middle childhood to adolescence: A 6‐year longitudinal study6
Memories of structured input become increasingly distorted across development6
Whitewashing Nature: Sanitized Depictions of Biology in Children’s Books and Parent–Child Conversation5
Relations between early majority language and socioemotional development in children with different language backgrounds5
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The Development of Advanced Theory of Mind in Middle Childhood: A Longitudinal Study From Age 5 to 10 Years5
Language‐specific phonological skills and the relationship with reading accuracy in Sylheti‐English sequential bilinguals5
Formalizing developmental phenomena as continuous‐time systems: Relations between mathematics and language development5
Commentary: Spanking and Externalizing Problems: Examining Within‐Subject Associations5
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Associations between a metal mixture and infant negative affectivity: Effect modification by prenatal cortisol and infant sex5
Conceptualizing adverse childhood experiences as a latent factor: Tests of measurement invariance across five racial and ethnic groups5
Environmental inequality and disparities in school readiness: The role of neurotoxic lead5
Coordinating movements and beliefs: Different facets of doing things together5
Preschool Children Rarely Seek Empirical Data That Could Help Them Complete a Task When Observation and Testimony Conflict5
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Attention to novelty interferes with toddlers' emerging memory decision‐making5
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