Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
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Children’s comparison of different-length numbers: Managing different attributes in multidigit number processing47
The good, the rich, and the powerful: How young children compensate victims of moral transgressions depending on moral character, wealth, and social dominance32
What motivates early lies? Deception in 2½- to 5-year-olds31
Contribution of orthography to vocabulary acquisition in a second language: Evidence of an early word-learning advantage in elementary-school children27
Find extra options or reason badly: An investigation of children’s reasoning with incompatibility statements26
School-aged children with higher anxiety symptoms show greater correspondence between subjective negative emotions and autonomic arousal25
The influence of language on the formation of number concepts: Evidence from preschool children who are bilingual in English and Arabic25
Expressions of positive and negative shyness in preschool-age children: Temperamental correlates and visual attention to emotions24
In the presence and absence of conflicting testimony, children’s selective trust in the in-group informant in moral judgment and knowledge access24
Cognitive processes that underlie mathematically gifted emergent bilinguals23
Sound–symbol learning and the relationship to spelling in first-grade children22
Effects of test difficulty messaging on academic cheating among middle school children21
Longitudinal relations between self-regulatory skills and mathematics achievement in early elementary school children from Chinese American immigrant families21
Children’s evaluations of culturally diverse lunchbox foods21
Preschoolers negatively evaluate conventional norm violations in pretend play20
The successful use of a search strategy improves with visuospatial working memory in 2- to 4.5-year-olds20
An experimental task to measure preschool children’s frustration induced by having to wait unexpectedly: The role of sensitivity to delay and culture20
Give yourself a hand: The role of gesture and working memory in preschoolers’ numerical knowledge19
A cross-cultural comparison of finger-based and symbolic number representations19
How to turn that frown upside down: Children make use of a listener’s facial cues to detect and (attempt to) repair miscommunication19
Trajectories of behavioral avoidance in real time: Associations with temperament and physiological dysregulation in preschoolers18
Predicting explicit memory for meaningful cartoons from visual paired comparison in infants and toddlers18
Learning faces from variability: Four- and five-year-olds differ from older children and adults18
What makes a role model motivating for young girls? The effects of the role model’s growth versus fixed mindsets about ability and interest18
The factorial structure of executive functions in preschool and elementary school children and relations with intelligence17
Children’s confidence on mathematical equivalence and fraction problems17
Proud to help when i should: Children’s positive emotions following sharing decisions with a needy versus not-needy other17
Categories convey prescriptive information across domains and development16
The role of truth and bias in parents’ judgments of children’s science interests16
Exploring audiovisual speech perception in monolingual and bilingual children in Uzbekistan16
Children’s and adults’ evaluations of self-enhancement and self-deprecation depend on the usual performance of the self-presenter16
Hearts, flowers, and fruits: All children need to reveal their post-error slowing16
Finger counting as a key tool for the development of children’s numerical skills15
Differences in cognitive processing? The role of verbal processes and mental effort in bilingual and monolingual children’s planning performance15
Seeing is believing: Larger Colavita effect in school-aged children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder15
Executive functions and problem-solving—The contribution of inhibition, working memory, and cognitive flexibility to science problem-solving performance in elementary school students15
Are facet-specific task trainings efficient in improving children’s executive functions and why (they might not be)? A multi-facet latent change score approach15
Infant walking experience is related to the development of selective attention15
Age-related changes in children’s cognitive–motor dual tasking: Evidence from a large cross-sectional sample15
What’s in a question? Parents’ question use in dyadic interactions and the relation to preschool-aged children’s math abilities15
Contributions of causal reasoning to early scientific literacy14
Sex differences in direction giving: Are boys better than girls?14
Children’s sleepiness facilitates the effect of vicarious learning on the development of fear14
Boys’ visuospatial abilities compensate for their relatively poor in-class attentive behavior in learning mathematics14
First impressions of child faces: Facial trustworthiness influences adults’ interpretations of children’s behavior in ambiguous situations14
From what I want to do to what we decided to do: 5-year-olds, but not 3-year-olds, honor their agreements with peers14
Multisensory and biomechanical influences on postural control in children14
Taking account of others’ goals in social information use: Developmental changes in 3- to 7-year-old children14
The animals in moral tales: Does character realism influence children’s prosocial response to stories?13
Children’s knowledge of superordinate words predicts subsequent inductive reasoning13
Young children’s future-oriented reasoning for self and other: Effects of conflict and perspective13
Predicting mathematics achievement from subdomains of early number competence: Differences by grade and achievement level13
Cognitive processing features of elementary school children with mathematical anxiety: Attentional control theory-based explanation13
Mathematical skills of 11-year-old children born very preterm and full-term13
Tonal interference in word learning? A comparison of Cantonese and French13
Observing parental behavior in challenging tasks: Its role for goal engagement and disengagement in children13
Activity increases in empathy-related brain regions when children contribute to peers’ sadness and happiness13
The effect of working memory capacity and training on intertemporal decision making in children from low-socioeconomic-status families12
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The number line estimation task is a valid tool for assessing mathematical achievement: A population-level study with 6484 Luxembourgish ninth-graders12
Listening effort and fatigue in native and non-native primary school children12
Sleep disturbances moderate the association between effortful control and executive functioning in early childhood12
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Infants’ and toddlers’ language development during the pandemic: Socioeconomic status mattered12
Infants’ representation of asymmetric social influence12
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The development of self-initiated visuo-spatial working memory11
Examining the cognitive and perceptual perspectives of music-to-language transfer: A study of Cantonese–English bilingual children11
“Yay! Yuck!” toddlers use others’ emotional responses to reason about hidden objects11
Children plan manual actions similarly in structured tasks and in free play11
Siblings at home: Moderating influence of sibling presence and composition on the relation between problem behaviors and Theory of Mind in early childhood11
“But the poor needed it more”: Children’s judgments on procedural justice to allocate resources between two candidates equal in merit, different in need11
Finger counting, finger number gesturing, and basic numerical skills: A cross-sectional study in 3- to 5-year-olds11
Associations between parents’ autonomy supportive management language and children’s science, technology, engineering, and mathematics talk during and after tinkering at home11
Perceptual narrowing continues throughout childhood: Evidence from specialization of face processing10
Quantitative or qualitative development in decision making?10
Reactive and proactive cognitive control as underlying processes of number processing in children10
Children are eager to take credit for prosocial acts, and cost affects this tendency10
Affordances of fractions and decimals for arithmetic among middle school students in the United States and China10
Learning science concepts through prompts to consider alternative possible worlds10
Effortful control moderates the relation between negative emotionality and socially appropriate behavior10
Memory for emotional images across sleep versus wake in school-aged children10
Event-related potential correlates of implicit processing of own- and other-race faces in children10
The wind in the willows effect: Does age affect human versus animal faux pas recognition?10
Modeling item-level variance of polysyllabic word reading in developing readers: Exploring semantically related child, word, and child-by-word predictors10
Mind wandering and executive dysfunction predict children’s performance in the metronome response task10
Elucidating mechanisms linking mothers’ and fathers’ mind-mindedness in infancy with children’s self-regulation at early preschool age10
Category learning is shaped by the multifaceted development of selective attention10
Children’s gesture use provides insight into proportional reasoning strategies10
Executive functions in deaf and hearing children: The mediating role of language skills in inhibitory control10
Mediated semantic priming interference in toddlers as seen through pupil dynamics10
Social context shapes neural processing of others’ actions in 9-month-old infants9
Cognitive and academic growth among emergent bilingual children at risk and not at risk for math difficulties9
Reading ability in children relates to rhythm perception across modalities9
Balancing accuracy and speed in the development of inhibitory control9
Preschoolers’ in-group bias promotes altruistic sharing and reduces second-party punishment: The role of theory of mind9
The effect of feedback and recollection rejection instructions on the development of memory monitoring and accuracy9
Sources of variation in preschoolers’ relational reasoning: The interaction between language use and working memory9
Successful comparisons in novel word generalization: Executive functions or semantic knowledge?9
Relieved or disappointed? Children’s understanding of how others feel at the cessation of events9
Parental criticism affects adolescents’ mood and ruminative state: Self-perception appears to influence their mood response9
Effects of praise and “easy” feedback on children’s persistence and self-evaluations9
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Infants’ intention-based evaluations of distributive actions8
Number line development of Chilean children from preschool to the end of kindergarten8
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Martial arts enhances working memory and attention in school-aged children: A functional near-infrared spectroscopy study8
Early presence of a “power = males” association: Girls link power to their gender less often than boys but can be as motivated to gain it8
Preschool children weigh accuracy against partisanship when seeking information8
Reconsidering conceptual knowledge: Heterogeneity of its components8
The feeling of “kiki”: Comparing developmental changes in sound–shape correspondence for audio–visual and audio–tactile stimuli8
Compensatory prosocial behavior in high-risk adolescents observing social exclusion: The effects of emotion feedback8
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Impacts of number lines and circle visual displays on caregivers’ fraction understanding8
Cognitive and home predictors of precocious reading and math before formal education8
Understanding the link between theory of mind and loneliness among primary school students: A cross-lagged panel model analysis8
The squeaky wheel gets the grease: Recipients’ responses influence children’s costly third-party punishment of unfairness8
Speech rate development in Japanese-speaking children and proficiency in mora-timed rhythm8
Receptive and expressive vocabulary performance in 2- to 5-year-olds in care: The role of different care types and temperament8
Bilingual children’s visual attention while reading digital picture books and story retelling8
The roles of behavioral and affective cues and false belief in children’s trait attributions8
Balanced time perspective and aggression in left-behind children: The mediating role of self-esteem8
The development of children’s and adults’ use of kinematic cues for visual anticipation and verbal prediction of action8
Developmental patterns and computational mechanisms of school-aged children’s fairness-related decision making under social comparison8
Moral evaluations of children’s truths and lies in a prosocial context: The role of reputation8
The effect of visual parameters on nonsymbolic numerosity estimation varies depending on the format of stimulus presentation8
Even young children make multiple predictions in the complex visual world8
The development of spoken word recognition in informative and uninformative sentence contexts8
The relation of bilingual cognitive skills to the second language writing performance of primary grade students8
Relations between parental metacognitive talk and children’s early metacognition and memory7
Finger counting to relieve working memory in children with developmental coordination disorder: Insights from behavioral and three-dimensional motion analyses7
Initial interactions matter: Warm-up play affects 2-year-olds’ cooperative ability with an unfamiliar same-aged peer7
Unveiling neurodevelopmental changes in multisensory integration while controlling attention7
Cross-linguistic relations of morphological awareness between Korean and English to language and reading skills for Korean adolescents7
Dragging but not tapping promotes preschoolers’ numerical estimating with touchscreens7
Infants’ short-term memory for consonant–vowel syllables7
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Children use race to infer who is “in charge”7
Long-term effects of the home literacy environment on reading development: Familial risk for dyslexia as a moderator7
Attentional blink in infants under 7 months7
Children’s expectations about the stability of others’ knowledge and preference states7
Adaptive variability in children’s conceptual models of division7
Influence of causal language on causal understanding: A comparison between Swiss German and Turkish7
The development of oculomotor suppression of salient distractors in children7
Operational momentum during children’s approximate arithmetic relates to symbolic math skills and space–magnitude association7
Multisensory integration and maternal sensitivity are related to each other and predictive of expressive vocabulary in 24-month-olds7
Evaluations of epistemic and practical reasons for belief in a predominantly White U.S. sample of preschoolers7
Children’s understanding of counterfactual and temporal relief in others7
Building lexical networks: Preschoolers extract different types of information in cross-situational learning7
Chinese parents’ support of preschoolers’ mathematical development7
Children’s science vocabulary uniquely predicts individual differences in science knowledge7
Preference matters: Knowledge of beneficiary’s preference influences children’s evaluations of the act of leaving a choice for others7
The roots of compassion in early childhood: Relationships between theory of mind and attachment representations with empathic concern and prosocial behavior7
Longitudinal associations between parental mathematics anxiety and attitudes and young children’s mathematics attainment7
Cognitive processes associated with working memory in children with developmental language disorder7
When does it pay to follow the crowd? Children optimize imitation of causally irrelevant actions performed by a majority7
Recognition of emotional body language from dyadic and monadic point-light displays in 5-year-old children and adults7
Parenting style and the cognitive development of preschool-aged children: Evidence from rural China7
Is silence golden? A pilot study exploring associations between children’s language environment and their language skills in Estonian-speaking families6
Testing the generalizability of minimal group attitudes in minority and majority race children6
Give some, keep some, put some: The language of sharing in children6
The role of semantic similarity in verb learning events: Vocabulary-related changes across early development6
Converging evidence for domain-general developmental trends of mental attentional capacity: Validity and reliability of full and abbreviated measures6
A structural equation model of emotion knowledge and verbal intelligence in peer acceptance in a sample of Portuguese preschoolers6
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Children’s developing ability to recognize deceptive use of true information6
Neural correlates of unconventional verb extensions reveal preschoolers’ analogical abilities6
Majority language skill, not measures of bilingualism, predicts executive attention in bilingual children6
Do preschoolers trust a competent robot pointer?6
Negative mood induction in children: An examination across mood, physiological, and cognitive variables6
Examining the relationship between psychosocial adversity and inhibitory control: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study of children growing up in extreme poverty6
Children endorse deterrence motivations for third-party punishment but derive higher enjoyment from compensating victims6
Perception of visual and audiovisual trajectories toward and away from the body in the first postnatal year6
Chatbot dialogic reading boosts comprehension for Chinese kindergarteners with higher language skills6
Divide and conquer: Relations among arithmetic operations and emerging knowledge of fraction notation for Chinese students in Grade 46
Considering the associations of adverse and positive childhood experiences with health behaviors and outcomes among emerging adults6
Examining the factor structure of the home learning environment6
Exploring relative strengths in people with Down syndrome: Spatial thinking and its role in mathematics6
Facial impressions of niceness influence children’s interpretations of peers’ ambiguous behavior6
The role of conventionality and design in children’s function judgments about malfunctioning artifacts6
Schadenfreude or empathy? Children’s emotional responses to the physical pain and pleasure of prosocial and antisocial others6
Blurred boundaries between us and them: Do young children affiliate with outgroup members with shared preferences?6
Turkish- and English-speaking 3-year-old children are sensitive to the evidential strength of claims when revising their beliefs6
Economic risk proneness in middle childhood: Uncertainty-driven exploration or novelty-seeking?6
Can gamification improve children’s performance in mental rotation?6
Where does language come from? The development of a naïve biological understanding of language6
Math talk by mothers, fathers, and toddlers: Differences across materials and associations with children’s math understanding6
Do embodiment and fictionality affect young children’s learning?6
The profit motive: Implications for children’s reasoning about merit-based resource distribution6
Developing mental number line games to improve young children’s number knowledge and basic arithmetic skills6
How executive functioning, sentence processing, and vocabulary are related at 3 years of age6
A bird’s-eye view of research practices in mathematical cognition, learning, and instruction: Reimagining the status quo6
Rapport building with adolescents to enhance reporting and disclosure6
A happy face advantage for pareidolic faces in children and adults6
Bilingual children judge moral, social, and language violations as less transgressive than monolingual children5
Race and early face-sensitive event-related potentials in children and adults5
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Holding multiple category representations: The role of age, theory of mind, and rule switching in children’s developing cross-classification abilities5
The effect of visuo-haptic exploration on the development of the geometric cross-sectioning ability5
Beyond literal depiction: Children’s flexible understanding of pictures5
Cognition in context: Validating group-based executive function assessments in young children5
Children learn cause-and-effect relations from fantastical and realistic storybooks5
The influence of group membership on false-belief attribution in preschool children5
Task demands matter in shaping how preschoolers express instrumental helping, comforting, and sharing: A longitudinal analysis5
Stopping at nothing: Two-year-olds differentiate between interrupted and abandoned goals5
Tomorrow versus a year from now: Do children represent the near and distant future differently?5
Intuitive mapping between nonsymbolic quantity and observed action across development5
The effects of referential continuity on novel word learning in bilingual and monolingual preschoolers5
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The costs and benefits of kindness for kids5
Parent–child physiological concordance predicts stronger observational fear learning in children with a less secure relationship with their parent5
Toddlers’ expressions indicate that they track agent–object interactions but do not detect false object representations5
Two birds in the hand: Concurrent and switching cognitive flexibility in preschoolers5
Inferring hidden objects from still and communicative onlookers at 8, 14, and 36 months of age5
Five-month-old infants attribute inferences based on general knowledge to agents5
The Magic School Bus dilemma: How fantasy affects children’s learning from stories5
Parents’ math anxiety and mathematics performance of pre-kindergarten children5
A longitudinal study of theory of mind and listening comprehension: Is preschool theory of mind important?5
High variability in learning materials benefits children’s pattern practice5
Preschoolers retain more details from event sequences 1 week following an in-group demonstration5
Young children’s understanding of the epistemic and deontic meanings of ask and tell5
Do children match described probabilities? The sampling hypothesis applied to repeated risky choice5
Self-projection in early childhood: No evidence for a common underpinning of episodic memory, episodic future thinking, theory of mind, and spatial navigation5
Oral language predictors of word reading and spelling: A cross-linguistic comparison in bilingual and monolingual children5
The effect of choice on memory across development5
Being the third wheel: Toddlers use bystander learning to acquire cue-specific valence knowledge5
Dissociated contributions of working memory and inhibitory control to children’s and adults’ analogical reasoning: Analogical strategies matter5
Pretending with realistic and fantastical stories facilitates executive function in 3-year-old children5
Children’s consideration of collaboration and merit when making sharing decisions in private5
But they weren’t being careful! Role of theory of mind in moral judgments about victim and transgressor negligence5
Inside a child’s mind: The relations between mind wandering and executive function across 8- to 12-year-olds5
Auditory hindsight bias in school-age children4
Fraction Ball impact on student and teacher math talk and behavior4
Mathematics anxiety and math achievement in primary school children: Testing different theoretical accounts4
Preschool children’s evaluations of their own unjustified requests4
Three- and six-year-old children are sensitive to natural body expressions of emotion: An event-related potential emotional priming study4
Winners and losers: Recognition of spontaneous emotional expressions increases across childhood4
Associations among response inhibition, motivational beliefs, and task persistence in early elementary school4
Being considered a co-national: Social categorization and perceived acculturation of immigrant peers4
Automatic imitation in school-aged children4
The influence of sensory processing tools on attention and arithmetic performance in Dutch primary school children4
Material and relational asymmetry: The role of receivers’ wealth and power status in children’s resource allocation4
Timing storytime to maximize children’s ability to retain new vocabulary4
Curiosity enhances incidental object encoding in 8-month-old infants4
Material incentive motivation and working memory performance of kindergartners: A large-scale randomized controlled trial4
Linking disambiguation and retention in a developmental eye-tracking study with monolingual and multilingual children4
Children's moral reasoning about self- versus other-benefiting public health measures4
Visual artificial grammar learning across 1 year in 7-year-olds and adults4
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