Child Development

Papers
(The TQCC of Child Development is 8. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
A Pre‐registered sticky mittens study: active training does not increase reaching and grasping in a swedish context312
Children's Trait Inference and Partner Choice in a Cooperative Game107
Children's evaluations of interracial peer inclusion and exclusion: The role of intimacy102
Development of literacy skills for Japanese deaf and hard‐of‐hearing children45
Mentalistic and normative frameworks in children's explanations of others' behaviors44
The N 2 During Preschool: Temporal Stability and a Test of Bidirectional Effects With Maternal Emotion Characteristics in a White, European‐American 40
Adolescent caregiving success as a predictor of social functioning from ages 13 to 3339
The Role of Controllability and Foreseeability in Children's Counterfactual Emotions39
Language development beyond the here‐and‐now: Iconicity and displacement in child‐directed communication37
Development of complex executive function over childhood: Longitudinal growth curve modeling of performance on the Groton Maze Learning Task36
Paternal and maternal rejection and Chinese children's internalizing and externalizing problems across the transition to siblinghood: A developmental cascade model of family influence35
Children and adults' intuitions of what people can believe34
Learning apps at home prepare children for school34
Children's Understanding of How Past Experience Shapes Future Expectations33
Testing the effectiveness of the Developing Inclusive Youth program: A multisite randomized control trial31
Strengthening parental self‐efficacy and resilience: A within‐subject experimental study with refugee parents of adolescents31
Links between shared and unique perspectives of parental psychological control and adolescent emotional problems: A dyadic daily diary study29
Gahvora cradling in Tajikistan: Cultural practices and associations with motor development29
Messaging about descriptive and injunctive norms can promote honesty in young children28
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”28
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 data27
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Simulating peers: Can puppets simulate peer interactions in studies on children's socio‐cognitive development?26
Control–value appraisals and academic emotions: An intensive longitudinal examination of reciprocal effects25
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School readiness losses during the COVID‐19 outbreak. A comparison of two cohorts of young children24
Contributions of bilingual home environment and language proficiency on children’s Spanish–English reading outcomes23
Parent socialization and anti‐racist ideology development in White youth: Do peer and parenting contexts matter?23
Early Vocabulary Acquisition: From Birth Order Effect to Child‐to‐Caregiver Ratio23
The development of early numeracy in deaf and hard of hearing children acquiring spoken language22
Young children's adaptive partner choice in cooperation and competition contexts22
Genetic and environmental contributions to individual differences in visual attention and oculomotor control in early infancy22
Emotion transmission in peer dyads in middle childhood22
Childhood poverty, immune cell aging, and African Americans' insulin resistance: A prospective study21
DNA methylation variation after a parenting program for child conduct problems: Findings from a randomized controlled trial21
Longitudinal links between maternal cultural socialization, peer ethnic‐racial discrimination, and ethnic‐racial pride in Mexican American youth21
A meta‐analysis of forgiveness education interventions’ effects on forgiveness and anger in children and adolescents21
Mothers speak less to infants during detected real‐world phone use21
Language‐specific phonological skills and the relationship with reading accuracy in Sylheti‐English sequential bilinguals21
Latent profiles of children's shyness: Behavioral, affective, and physiological components21
Mother–child collaboration in an Indigenous community: Changing and enduring across generations20
Peer victimization and empathy for victims of bullying: A test of bidirectional associations in childhood and adolescence19
Learning Variability Network Exchange ( LEVANTE ): A Global Framework for Measuring Children's Learning Variability Through Collaborative Data Sharin19
Maternal color‐consciousness is related to more positive and less negative attitudes toward ethnic‐racial outgroups in children in White Dutch families18
How does caregiver–child conversation during a scientific storybook reading impact children's mindset beliefs and persistence?18
Temperament and psychopathology: The “community” to which you belong matters18
How a Preschool Intervention Affected High School Outcomes: Longitudinal Pathways in a Randomized‐Controlled Trial17
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Childcare Center Attendance During the Covid‐19 Pandemic: Boosting Cognitive and Language Development17
Empirical benchmarks for changes in social and emotional skills over time16
Does early child negative emotionality moderate the association between maternal stimulation and academic readiness and achievement?16
Supporting child and family resilience in the face of political violence: Evidence from a home visit parenting program16
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‐Sta16
Interparental conflict dimensions and children's psychological problems: Emotion recognition as a mediator16
Mechanisms and pathways linking kindergarten behavior problems with mid‐life employment earnings for males from low‐income neighborhoods16
The role of accuracy in children's judgments of experts' knowledge15
Metamemory for involuntary autobiographical memories and semantic mind‐pops in 5‐, 7‐ and 9‐year‐old children and young adults15
Are victims of bullying primarily social outcasts? Person‐group dissimilarities in relational, socio‐behavioral, and physical characteristics as predictors of victimization15
Can guidance during play enhance children’s learning and development in educational contexts? A systematic review and meta‐analysis15
Parent emotional support alters the association between parent–child interbrain synchrony and interaction quality15
Language brokering profiles of Mexican‐origin adolescents in immigrant communities: Social‐cultural contributors and developmental outcomes15
Sibling effects on problem and prosocial behavior in childhood: Patterns of intrafamilial “contagion” by birth order15
Are mobile phone ownership and age of acquisition associated with child adjustment? A 5‐year prospective study among low‐income Latinx children15
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Preschoolers rely on rich speech representations to process variable speech14
How do socioeconomic attainment gaps in early mathematical ability arise?14
Utility of the social skills improvement system–rating scales for capturing dynamic social constructs: Evidence using the measurement model of derivatives14
Priming group identities affects children's resource distribution among groups14
Cascading effects of Chinese American parents' COVID‐19 racial discrimination and racial socialization on adolescents' adjustment14
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Correction to Girls are good at STEM: Opening minds and providing evidence reduces boys' stereotyping of girls' STEM ability14
Viewing Teens as Responsible in Family: Implications for Chinese Youth's Academic and Social Adjustment14
Anti‐phasic oscillatory development for speech and noise processing in cochlear implanted toddlers13
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Temporal cortex activation explains children’s improvement in math attitudes13
Medium‐term protective effects of quality early childhood education during the COVID‐19 pandemic in Ghana13
EEG Theta Power in Bangladeshi Children: Associations With Early Experiences and Cognitive Outcomes13
Examining the effectiveness of a video‐based parent–child program on executive functions for children  5 to 6 years old: A randomized controlled trial13
Parents' responses to children's math performance in early elementary school: Links with parents' math beliefs and children's math adjustment13
Six‐Year‐Olds, but Not Younger Children, Consider the Probability of Being Right by Chance When Inferring Others' Knowledge12
Learning Loopholes: The Development of Intentional Misunderstandings in Children12
Adolescents' Race Consciousness Strengthens Broader Awareness of Societal Inequality12
Material hardship and telomere length in children12
Co‐rumination between friends: Considering the roles of outcome expectations, relationship provisions, and perceptions of problems12
White adolescents' racial contexts: Associations with critical action12
Effects of spatial boundaries on episodic memory development12
Greasing (small) palms: Early rejection of bribery12
The complex associations between scientific reasoning and advanced theory of mind12
Erratum: A mediation meta‐analysis of the role of maternal responsivity in the association between socioeconomic risk and children's language12
Infants and toddlers leverage their understanding of action goals to evaluate agents who help others12
Developmental patterns of affective attention across the first 2 years of life12
Cohort differences in the development of civic engagement during adolescence12
Theta power relates to infant object encoding in naturalistic mother‐infant interactions12
Effects of homicide timing on test scores: Quasi‐experimental evidence from two cities in Colombia12
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Parents’ daily involvement in children’s math homework and activities during early elementary school12
Gene–environment interplay linking perceived parental supervision and peer drunkenness with Chinese adolescent alcohol initiation11
Automatic Extraction of Meaning From Visual Number Symbols Detected by Frequency‐Tagged EEG in Children11
Is Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch‐up effective for parents with insecure attachment states of mind?11
Letter–speech sound integration in typical reading development during the first years of formal education11
Children's moral evaluations of and behaviors toward people who are curious about religion and science11
Development of prosocial behavior and inhibitory control in late childhood: A longitudinal exploration of sex differences and reciprocal relations11
The development of commitment: Attention for intention11
Efficacy of a cultural adaptation of the Identity Project intervention among adolescents attending multiethnic classrooms in Italy: A randomized controll11
“Some people will tell jokes to you; some people be racist:” A mixed‐method examination of racist jokes and adolescents’ well‐being11
Earning More Points!: The Impact of Value on Children's Memory and Self‐Regulated Learning Strategies11
Pointing out learning opportunities reduces overparenting11
A family systems investigation on couple emotional intimacy, parent–child relationships, and child social skills in middle childhood11
Cutting It Too Fine? The Factor Structure of Fine Motor Skills From Ages 5 to 10 Years10
A counting intervention promotes fair sharing in preschoolers10
You can’t change the past: Children’s recognition of the causal asymmetry between past and future events10
Investigating if high‐quality kindergarten teachers sustain the pre‐K boost to children's emergent literacy skill development in North Carolina10
Antecedents to and outcomes associated with teacher–child relationship perceptions in early childhood: Further evidence for child‐driven effects10
Theoretical and Quantitative Disconnect When Modeling Adverse Childhood Experiences Using a Common Factor Framework: An Argument for Causal Indicator Models in Stressor Research10
A robot is watching me!: Five‐year‐old children care about their reputation after interaction with a social robot10
Frontal asymmetry assessed in infancy using functional near‐infrared spectroscopy is associated with emotional and behavioral problems in early childhood10
Seeking versus receiving help: How children integrate suggestions in memory decisions10
The future is present in the past: A meta‐analysis on the longitudinal associations of parent–adolescent relationships with peer and romantic relationships10
Intimate partner violence during infancy and cognitive outcomes in middle childhood: Results from an Australian community‐based mother and child cohort study10
Building a space to dream: Supporting indigenous children's survivance through community‐engaged social and emotional learning10
Parent–adolescent communication in a digital world: A 100‐day diary study10
Multimodal Measurement of Pubertal Development: Stage, Timing, Tempo, and Hormones10
Do home mathematical activities relate to early mathematical skills? A systematic review and meta‐analysis10
Distressing testing: A propensity score analysis of high‐stakes exam failure and mental health10
Do reflection prompts promote children's conflict monitoring and revision of misconceptions?10
Maternal depression, parenting, and child psychological outcomes in the context of maternal pain10
Trajectories and predictors of adolescent purpose development in self‐driven learning10
Dynamic self‐regulation and coregulation of respiratory sinus arrhythmia in mother–child and father–child interactions: Moderating effects of proximal and distal stressors10
Popularity and Academic Adjustment in the United States and China: A Meta‐Analytic Study9
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Attention to novelty interferes with toddlers' emerging memory decision‐making9
A Cross‐Cultural Analysis of Infants' Spatial Attention on the Infant Orienting With Attention (IOWA) Task9
Developmental changes in the structure of shyness and internalizing symptoms from early to middle childhood: A network analysis9
Early‐life threat and deprivation: Are children similarly affected by exposure to each?9
Family‐level profiles of parental reactions to emotions: Longitudinal associations with multi‐informant reports of adolescent internalizing and externalizing symptoms9
Need for Cognition Predicts Academic Interest Development but Not the Other Way Around: A Longitudinal Study of Secondary School Students9
“Oh, the places you'll go”: The psychological consequences of omission and misrepresentation for Native children9
Developmental trajectories of Korean and heritage language proficiencies and their association with maladjustment among Korean multicultural adolescents9
Delay of gratification and adult outcomes: The Marshmallow Test does not reliably predict adult functioning9
Foster Care Entry and Later Academic Achievement Among Infants Involved With Child Protective Services9
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Developments in Children's Evaluations of and Reasoning About Disability‐Related Accommodations9
Seeing awe: How children perceive awe‐inspiring visual experiences9
Conceptualizing adverse childhood experiences as a latent factor: Tests of measurement invariance across five racial and ethnic groups9
In their own words: Finding meaning in girls' experiences of puberty9
Self‐regulation and comprehension in shared reading: The moderating effects of verbal interactions and E‐book discussion prompts9
Language, ambiguity, and executive functions in adolescents' theory of mind8
Bidirectional associations between nightly sleep and daily happiness and negative mood in adolescents8
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Connecting the tots: Strong looking‐pointing correlations in preschoolers' word learning and implications for continuity in language development8
Causal Effects of an Ecologically Valid Home Numeracy Intervention on Preschoolers' Numeracy Skills8
Towards a general modeling framework of resource competition in cognitive development8
Maltreatment type differences in cortisol stress response trajectories across adolescence8
Gesture Production Selectively Predicts Language Outcomes in Spanish‐English Bilingual Children8
“Plan chunking” expands 3‐year‐olds' ability to complete multiple‐step plans8
Links Between Child Executive Function and Adjustment: A Three‐Site Study8
Strong cultural connectedness buffers urban American Indian children from the negative effects of stress on mental health8
Trajectories of socially anxious behavior from age 5 to 13: Temperamental and sociocognitive pathways8
Do more hours in center‐based care cause more externalizing problems? A cross‐national replication study8
Goal‐directedness enhances letter‐speech sound learning and consolidation in an unknown orthography8
Changes in children’s anger, sadness, and persistence across blocked goals: Implications for self‐regulation8
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Critical, active, and well adapted: Antecedents and consequences of adolescents' critical consciousness profiles8
Emotions or cognitions first? Longitudinal relations between executive functions and emotion regulation in childhood8
Margarita glasses and high heels: How attention to shape, age, and vocabulary impacts children's recognition of typical and atypical exemplars8
Trajectories of early childhood family instability and the development of externalizing behaviors from middle childhood to adolescence: A prospective study of at‐risk families8
Parental differential treatment of siblings linked with internalizing and externalizing behavior: A meta‐analysis8
Differential psychophysiological responses associated with decision‐making in children from different socioeconomic backgrounds8
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