Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Experimental Child Psychology is 1. 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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Predictive factors of reading in children with developmental language disorder40
“Dividing the labor”: Lexical verbs and the linguistic encoding of physical support in 2- to 4.5-year-old children35
No transfer effect of a fraction number line game on fraction understanding or fraction arithmetic: A randomized controlled trial31
The effects of explicit morphological analysis instruction in early elementary Spanish speakers28
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Evaluations of epistemic and practical reasons for belief in a predominantly White U.S. sample of preschoolers25
Investigating the links between parent–child interactions and context-specific electroencephalography asymmetry: Neurophysiology behind a frustrating task24
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Combining forces for causal reasoning: Children’s predictions about physical interactions22
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Cognitive processes associated with working memory in children with developmental language disorder21
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An experimental task to measure preschool children’s frustration induced by having to wait unexpectedly: The role of sensitivity to delay and culture20
Explore versus store: Children strategically trade off reliance on exploration versus working memory during a complex task19
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Preschoolers ask questions about unknown words on video chat and in live interactions at similar rates19
Racial categorization and intergroup perception in preschool children: A focus on group membership and group size in the French context18
Children’s comparison of different-length numbers: Managing different attributes in multidigit number processing18
Minority- and majority-status bystander reactions to, and reasoning about, intergroup social exclusion17
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The successful use of a search strategy improves with visuospatial working memory in 2- to 4.5-year-olds17
Mind the suffix: Pseudoword processing in children and adults17
Practice schedule and testing per se affect children’s transfer abilities in a grapho-motor task17
The roots of compassion in early childhood: Relationships between theory of mind and attachment representations with empathic concern and prosocial behavior17
Investigating belief understanding in children in a nonverbal ambiguous displacement and communication setting17
The unique contributions of day and night sleep to infant motor problem solving16
Longitudinal relations between self-regulatory skills and mathematics achievement in early elementary school children from Chinese American immigrant families16
Talk outside the box: Parents’ decontextualized language during preschool years relates to child numeracy and literacy skills in middle childhood15
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The impact of absolute and relative feedback on children’s self-evaluation: Transitioning from kindergarten to first grade15
Sound–symbol learning and the relationship to spelling in first-grade children14
Effects of test difficulty messaging on academic cheating among middle school children14
Putting the pieces together: Cognitive correlates of self-derivation of new knowledge in elementary school classrooms14
Karate Kata training: A promising intervention for behavioral problems in elementary school children14
Executive function and mathematics in preschool children: Training and transfer effects14
When does it pay to follow the crowd? Children optimize imitation of causally irrelevant actions performed by a majority14
One versus many: Multiple examples in word learning14
Visual attention and reading: A test of their relation across paradigms14
Finger counting to relieve working memory in children with developmental coordination disorder: Insights from behavioral and three-dimensional motion analyses13
Social and communicative not a prerequisite: Preverbal infants learn an abstract rule only from congruent audiovisual dynamic pitch–height patterns13
Association of screen-based sedentary behavior with executive function in school-aged children: A functional near-infrared spectroscopy study13
Unveiling neurodevelopmental changes in multisensory integration while controlling attention13
Cognitive processes that underlie mathematically gifted emergent bilinguals13
Children’s evaluations of culturally diverse lunchbox foods13
Preschoolers’ learning of information from fantastical narrative versus expository books13
The impact of positive and adverse childhood experiences on social connectedness in young adults13
The effect of narrative coherence and visual salience on children’s and adults’ gaze while watching video13
The roles of mathematical language and emergent literacy skills in the longitudinal prediction of specific early numeracy skills13
Age-related changes in how 5- to 8-year-old children use and execute finger-based strategies in arithmetic13
Mathematics anxiety and math achievement in primary school children: Testing different theoretical accounts12
Culturally and linguistically diverse children’s retention of spoken narratives encoded in quiet and in babble noise12
Dragging but not tapping promotes preschoolers’ numerical estimating with touchscreens12
Cross-linguistic relations of morphological awareness between Korean and English to language and reading skills for Korean adolescents12
Developmental trajectories of motor imagery in relation to physical fitness in children aged 7 to 14 years: A 1-year follow-up study12
Episodic foresight, episodic memory, and executive functions in children engaged with Child Protective Services: The role of cumulative risk12
Attention–language interface in Multilingual Assessment instrument for Narratives12
Are students’ math and verbal motivational beliefs malleable? The role of praise in dimensional comparisons11
Operational momentum during children’s approximate arithmetic relates to symbolic math skills and space–magnitude association11
Multisensory integration and maternal sensitivity are related to each other and predictive of expressive vocabulary in 24-month-olds11
Expressions of positive and negative shyness in preschool-age children: Temperamental correlates and visual attention to emotions11
Attentional capture in goal-directed action during childhood, adolescence, and early adulthood11
The good, the rich, and the powerful: How young children compensate victims of moral transgressions depending on moral character, wealth, and social dominance11
Math anxiety affects females’ vocational interests11
The development of oculomotor suppression of salient distractors in children11
Examining the role of external language support and children’s own language use in spatial development11
Influence of causal language on causal understanding: A comparison between Swiss German and Turkish11
Find extra options or reason badly: An investigation of children’s reasoning with incompatibility statements11
Preschoolers’ competence to use advice in everyday decision contexts11
The extended development of mapping spatial demonstratives onto space11
What children’s number naming errors tell us about early understanding of multidigit numbers10
Children’s judgments of interventions against norm violations: COVID-19 as a naturalistic case study10
Auditory hindsight bias in school-age children10
Effects of advice on experienced-based learning in adolescents and adults10
School-aged children with higher anxiety symptoms show greater correspondence between subjective negative emotions and autonomic arousal10
How do distracting events influence children’s arithmetic performance?10
The process of learning the designed actions of toys10
How do phonological awareness, rapid automatized naming, and vocabulary contribute to early numeracy and print knowledge of Filipino children?10
Initial interactions matter: Warm-up play affects 2-year-olds’ cooperative ability with an unfamiliar same-aged peer10
Infants’ selective imitation of a transitive agent and an intransitive agent10
Relationships among age, socioeconomic status, and distractibility in preschoolers as assessed by the Competitive Attention Test10
The effect of response-to-stimulus interval on children’s implicit sequence learning10
Joint attention episodes during interactions with fathers but not mothers at age 2 years is associated with expressive language at 3 years10
Competence-based helping: Children’s consideration of need when providing others with help10
The development of digital ownership in children10
Attachment and prosocial behavior in middle childhood: The role of emotion regulation10
Longer looks for language: Novel labels lengthen fixation duration for 2-year-old children9
Teacher–child relational conflict and maladaptive social behaviors: The moderating role of children’s values9
In the presence and absence of conflicting testimony, children’s selective trust in the in-group informant in moral judgment and knowledge access9
Longitudinal association between children’s mastery motivation and cognitive school readiness: Executive functioning and social–emotional competence as potential mediators9
Could it? Should it? Cognitive reflection facilitates children’s reasoning about possibility and permissibility9
Children’s ability to recognize their parent’s face improves with age9
Maternal control and children’s inhibitory control in China: The role of child exuberance and parenting contexts9
Longitudinal associations between parental mathematics anxiety and attitudes and young children’s mathematics attainment9
Infants’ short-term memory for consonant–vowel syllables9
Brain bases of morphological awareness and longitudinal word reading outcomes9
Imagining the future improves saving in preschoolers8
Heuristic strategy of intuitive statistical inferences in 7- to 10-year-old children8
We know that we don’t know: Children’s understanding of common ignorance in a coordination game8
Adolescent girls’ physiological reactivity to real-world peer feedback: A pilot study to validate a Peer Expressed Emotion task8
The development of visuotactile congruency effects for sequences of events8
Targeted self-regulation interventions in low-income children: Clinical trial results and implications for health behavior change8
Children’s expectations about the stability of others’ knowledge and preference states8
Fine-grained differences in gender-cue strength affect predictive processing in children: Cross-linguistic evidence from Russian and Bulgarian8
Children’s consideration of motivation in evaluations of socially (un)mindful actions8
Academic cheating in early childhood: Role of age, gender, personality, and self-efficacy8
The coin that is most current is flattery? Stability and discontinuity of false praise-telling from 5 to 7 years of life8
Science with Duplo: Multilevel goal management in preschoolers’ toy house constructions8
What do children’s errors tell us about the strategies used during a word inferencing task?8
Attentional blink in infants under 7 months8
The influence of language on the formation of number concepts: Evidence from preschool children who are bilingual in English and Arabic8
Altered development of face recognition among infants born amid the COVID-19 pandemic8
Cool and hot effortful control moderate how parenting predicts child internalization in Chinese families8
Continuity in false belief understanding from 33 to 52 months of age8
Exploring factors influencing young children’s learning from storybooks: Interactive and multimedia features7
Poor conceptual knowledge in the food domain and food rejection dispositions in 3- to 7-year-old children7
Birth order moderates the association between adverse childhood experiences and externalizing behavior symptoms in adolescence7
Timing storytime to maximize children’s ability to retain new vocabulary7
What motivates early lies? Deception in 2½- to 5-year-olds7
“I’ll remember everything no matter what!”: The role of metacognitive abilities in the development of young children’s prospective memory7
Neural processing of self-produced and externally generated events in 3-month-old infants7
Rapport building with adolescents to enhance reporting and disclosure7
A happy face advantage for pareidolic faces in children and adults7
Hearts, flowers, and fruits: All children need to reveal their post-error slowing7
Rethinking attention in time: Expectancy violations reconcile contradictory developmental evidence7
Infants’ attention during cross-situational word learning: Environmental variability promotes novelty preference7
Linking young children’s teaching to their reasoning of mental states: Evidence from Singapore7
Stress and working memory in children and adolescents: Insights from a multisystem approach7
The role of infant attention and parental sensitivity in infant cognitive development in the Netherlands and China7
Separable effects of the approximate number system, symbolic number knowledge, and number ordering ability on early arithmetic development7
Cognitive flexibility and parental education differentially predict implicit and explicit racial biases in bilingual children7
Cognitive stimulation of executive functions through computational thinking7
Children endorse deterrence motivations for third-party punishment but derive higher enjoyment from compensating victims7
Negative mood induction in children: An examination across mood, physiological, and cognitive variables7
Contribution of orthography to vocabulary acquisition in a second language: Evidence of an early word-learning advantage in elementary-school children7
Working memory development in different modalities in children and young adults7
Corrigendum to “When do preschoolers learn specific mathematics skills? Mapping the development of early numeracy knowledge”. [J. Exp. Child Psychol. 195 (2020) 104846]7
Perspective matters in goal-predictive gaze shifts during action observation: Results from 6-, 9-, and 12-month-olds and adults7
Differential effects of mindfulness meditation and cognitive training on cool and hot inhibitory control in children and adolescents7
Out of sight, not out of mind: New pupillometric evidence on object permanence in a sample of 10- and 12-month-old German infants7
Preference matters: Knowledge of beneficiary’s preference influences children’s evaluations of the act of leaving a choice for others7
Controlling posture to see the world: The integration of visual task demands and postural sway in sitting and standing infants7
Recollection contributes to children’s reading comprehension: Using the process dissociation procedure in a working memory updating task7
Object labeling activates young children’s scale errors at an early stage of verb vocabulary growth7
Blurred boundaries between us and them: Do young children affiliate with outgroup members with shared preferences?6
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Why do children comply with parental restrictions in the personal domain?6
Toddlers' expectations of corporal third-party punishments against the non-defender puppet6
Exploring the development of attentional set shifting in young children with a novel Intradimensional/Extradimensional shift task6
Multiple influences of working memory capacity on number comprehension: The interplay with metacognition and number-specific prerequisites6
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Promoting prosocial behavior in toddlerhood: A conversation-based intervention at nursery6
Procedural (in)justice in children: Children choose procedures that favor their ingroup6
Learning faces from variability: Four- and five-year-olds differ from older children and adults6
Disentangling language status and country-of-origin explanations of the bilingual advantage in preschoolers6
Attention to intentional versus incidental pointing gestures in young autistic children: An eye-tracking study6
Majority language skill, not measures of bilingualism, predicts executive attention in bilingual children6
Preschoolers negatively evaluate conventional norm violations in pretend play6
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Exploring audiovisual speech perception in monolingual and bilingual children in Uzbekistan6
Playing hide and seek: Contextual regularity learning develops between 3 and 5 years of age6
“I know it’s complicated”: Children detect relevant information about object complexity6
The development of simple addition problem solving in children: Reliance on automatized counting or memory retrieval depends on both expertise and problem size6
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Friendship is more than strategic reciprocity: Preschoolers’ selective sharing with friends cannot be reduced to strategic concerns6
Predicting explicit memory for meaningful cartoons from visual paired comparison in infants and toddlers6
Omission bias in children’s and adults’ moral judgments of lies6
Spreading the game: An experimental study on the link between children’s overimitation and their adoption, transmission, and modification of conventional information6
Everyday interactions support toddlers’ learning of conventional actions on artifacts6
Power grabbed or granted: Children’s allocation of resources in social power situations6
Exploring the development of high-level contributions to body representation using the rubber hand illusion and the monkey hand illusion6
Adaptive variability in children’s conceptual models of division6
Variation in pedagogy affects overimitation in children and adolescents6
Children’s science vocabulary uniquely predicts individual differences in science knowledge6
Social cognition and trust: Exploring the role of theory of mind and hostile attribution bias in children’s skepticism of inaccurate informants6
Developing mental number line games to improve young children’s number knowledge and basic arithmetic skills6
Is silence golden? A pilot study exploring associations between children’s language environment and their language skills in Estonian-speaking families6
Categories convey prescriptive information across domains and development6
Preschoolers agree to and enforce prosocial, but not selfish, sharing norms6
Does preschool children’s self-regulation moderate the impacts of instructional activities? Evidence from a randomized intervention study6
Trajectories of behavioral avoidance in real time: Associations with temperament and physiological dysregulation in preschoolers6
Facial impressions of niceness influence children’s interpretations of peers’ ambiguous behavior5
The development of processing second-order spatial relations of faces in Chinese preschoolers5
Exploring the perception of stress in childhood and early adolescence5
Are facet-specific task trainings efficient in improving children’s executive functions and why (they might not be)? A multi-facet latent change score approach5
Subtraction by addition in young multi-digit subtraction learners: A choice/no-choice study5
The ontogeny of efficient second-order action planning: The developing interplay of controlled and habitual processes in goal-directed actions5
Children’s use of reasoning by exclusion to infer objects’ identities in working memory5
What makes a role model motivating for young girls? The effects of the role model’s growth versus fixed mindsets about ability and interest5
Schadenfreude or empathy? Children’s emotional responses to the physical pain and pleasure of prosocial and antisocial others5
Children’s confidence on mathematical equivalence and fraction problems5
The role of truth and bias in parents’ judgments of children’s science interests5
Beyond empathy: Cognitive capabilities increase or curb altruism in middle childhood5
Beyond enjoyment: Young children consider the normative goodness of activity engagement when attributing happiness5
The effect of face mask wearing on language processing and emotion recognition in young children5
Linking early maternal input during shared reading to later theory of mind through receptive language and executive function: A within- and between-family design5
Five-year-old children show cooperative preferences for faces with white sclera5
A cross-cultural comparison of the relation between children’s moral standards of honesty and their lie-telling behavior5
Proud to help when i should: Children’s positive emotions following sharing decisions with a needy versus not-needy other5
The development of the Poggendorff illusion in typically developing children5
Children’s developing ability to recognize deceptive use of true information5
Give yourself a hand: The role of gesture and working memory in preschoolers’ numerical knowledge5
Children’s and adults’ evaluations of self-enhancement and self-deprecation depend on the usual performance of the self-presenter5
Does extended experience with other-race nannies predict racial bias in the preschool years?5
Motor constraints on infant search: The impact of reaching around a barrier on search performance5
Executive functioning skills and (low) math achievement in primary and secondary school5
The discrimination of expressions in facial movements by infants: A study with point-light displays5
The contextual cueing effect disappears during joint search in preschool children5
Reading fiction and reading minds in early adolescence: A longitudinal study5
Intuitive biological thinking in Chinese 8th graders5
Touch-and-feel features in “first words” picture books hinder infants’ word learning5
A longitudinal study of the role of vocabulary size in priming effects in early childhood5
Infant–parent attachment and lie-telling in young children: The Generation R Study5
The efficacy of manipulatives versus fingers in supporting young children’s addition skills5
The role of conventionality and design in children’s function judgments about malfunctioning artifacts5
When multiplying is meaningful in memory: Electrophysiological signature of the problem size effect in children4
How to turn that frown upside down: Children make use of a listener’s facial cues to detect and (attempt to) repair miscommunication4
Examining the relationship between psychosocial adversity and inhibitory control: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study of children growing up in extreme poverty4
Turkish- and English-speaking 3-year-old children are sensitive to the evidential strength of claims when revising their beliefs4
Executive functions and problem-solving—The contribution of inhibition, working memory, and cognitive flexibility to science problem-solving performance in elementary school students4
Exploring relative strengths in people with Down syndrome: Spatial thinking and its role in mathematics4
Statistical learning ability at 17 months relates to early reading skills via oral language4
Examining the factor structure of the home learning environment4
Monocular gap stereopsis in infants4
Preschool emergent literacy skills as predictors of reading and spelling in Grade 2 and the role of migration background in Germany4
Corrigendum to “Effects of dual- and single-language exposure on children’s word learning: Experimentally testing the role of competition” [J. Exp. Child Psychol. 244 (2024) 105953]4
Spanish-learning infants switch from a vowel to a consonant bias during the first year of life4
Mental arithmetic skill development in primary school: The importance of number processing abilities and general cognitive abilities4
Effects of semantic reinforcement, semantic discrimination, and affix frequency on new word learning in skilled and less skilled readers in Grades 6 to 124
Children weigh internet inaccuracy when trusting in online information4
Early skills that predict English reading ability: A longitudinal study of bilingual children from 5 to 10 years4
Do children need counting principle knowledge to count on their fingers?4
The role of semantic similarity in verb learning events: Vocabulary-related changes across early development4
Do preschoolers trust a competent robot pointer?4
Neural correlates of unconventional verb extensions reveal preschoolers’ analogical abilities4
Children’s moral self-concept relates to moral judgment, but not to arousal4
Can gamification improve children’s performance in mental rotation?4
The relationship between math anxiety and math performance: The moderating role of visuospatial working memory4
Developmental normative data for the Balance Tracking System modified Clinical Test of Sensory Integration and Balance protocol4
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Determining social power: Do Chinese preschoolers integrate verbal and nonverbal cues?4
Do demand characteristics contribute to minimal ingroup preferences?4
Three- and four-year-old children represent mutually exclusive possible identities4
Development of the bodily self: Effects of visuomotor synchrony and visual appearance on virtual embodiment in children and adults4
The home numeracy environment and children’s math skills: The moderating role of parents’ math anxiety4
Multisyllabic decoding achievement and relation to vocabulary at the end of elementary school4
Ire and punishment: Incidental anger and costly punishment in children, adolescents, and adults4
The near and far transfer effects of computerized working memory training in typically developing preschool children: Evidence from event-related potentials4
Finger use mirroring young children’s ways of experiencing numbers4
Fear modulates parental orienting during childhood and adolescence4
Testing the generalizability of minimal group attitudes in minority and majority race children4
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