British Journal of Developmental Psychology

Papers
(The median citation count of British Journal of Developmental Psychology is 0. 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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Moral reasoning, emotion understanding, and callous‐unemotional traits in early‐to‐middle childhood26
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Actions versus Words: Exploring the contributions of working memory and motoric coding in children's instruction following using a dual‐task paradigm17
Parental scaffolding and children's math ability: The type of activities matters16
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Construction play frequency and relations with spatial ability and mathematics performance14
Children's sympathy moderates the link between their attentional orientation and ethical guilt12
Methods and measures of source monitoring in children: A scoping review12
Children's attitudes about transgender identity disclosure and concealment11
The influence of valence and relationship on children's verification of gossip10
The influence of popular media characters on children's object choices10
Children's and adolescents' expectations, evaluations and reasoning about a bystander who challenges social exclusion within intragroup and intergroup peer contexts10
The Contextualized Emotion Regulation Survey for Adolescents (CERSA): How does emotion regulation vary according to context?10
Causal effect of parental reading on later development of children: Demonstrating a Bayesian approach9
Social participation arrangements and distributed human agency: A comment on “Collaboration at a microscale: Cultural differences in family interactions”9
Unlocking narratives: Longitudinal associations between theory of mind and reading comprehension9
Negative family expressiveness and adolescents' externalizing problems: Respiratory sinus arrhythmia as a moderator and anger regulation as a mediator9
Cumulative stressor exposure and cognitive functioning in late childhood: The role of inflammation8
Early language outcomes in Argentinean toddlers: Associations with home literacy, screen exposure and joint media engagement8
A cascade of rejection and appearance preoccupation: Adolescents’ body dysmorphic symptoms and appearance rejection sensitivity over 4 years8
Trust issues: Adolescents' epistemic vigilance towards online sources7
‘I can actually do it without any help or someone watching over me all the time and giving me constant instruction’: Autistic adolescent boys' perspectives on engagement in online video gaming7
Children's perceptions of social class discrimination: The role of age and situational factors in evaluating fairness7
The recognition of emotional prosody in students with blindness: Effects of early visual experience and age development6
Relationships between cognition and literacy in children with attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder: A systematic review and meta‐analysis6
Student–teacher relationships and sense of academic futility: Longitudinal associations among early adolescents of immigrant and non‐immigrant background6
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Zoti's Social Toolkit: Developing and piloting novel animated tasks to assess emotional understanding and conflict resolution skills in childhood5
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Primary school children rate children with autism negatively on looks, speech and speech content5
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How does Google get its information?: Children's judgements about Google search4
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Predicting developmental outcomes in middle childhood from early life language and parenting experiences3
Building connections through play: Influences on children's connected talk with peers3
Motivations for social withdrawal and academic adjustment in emerging adulthood3
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Never trust a stranger: Effects of explicit belief statements from strangers on children's reality status beliefs and beliefs about consensus3
When intergroup contact correlates with gender‐prejudice beliefs of emerging adults2
Are attachment to parents and self‐efficacy linked with emerging adults' values of future expectations?2
The Joint Media Engagement Scale (JMES): An instrument for measuring shared media use with children aged 1 to 5 years old2
Parental reflective functioning and theory of mind acquisition: A developmental perspective2
Associations of language‐based bedtime routines with early cognitive skills and academic achievement: A follow‐up from kindergarten to middle school2
Photograph method fosters direct access to second‐language word meaning: Direct evidence from a word‐picture matching task2
The effect of competition on children's merit‐based resource allocation: The difference between interpersonal and intergroup competition2
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I help, therefore, I am? – A registered report on longitudinal inter‐relations of the three‐dimensional moral self‐concept and prosocial behaviours in preschool children2
Early childhood educators' mental state language and children's theory of mind in the preschool setting2
Potential categories and influencing factors of problem behaviours in high school students: Based on latent profile analysis2
The developmental trajectories of spatial skills in middle childhood2
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Preschoolers' retrospective and prospective judgements of immanent justice following distributive actions1
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Correspondence in parents' and children's concepts of god: Investigating the role of parental values, religious practices and executive functioning1
Advanced theory of mind in children with mild intellectual disability and deaf or hard of hearing children: A two‐year longitudinal study in middle childhood1
Differing gender diverse children have differing experiences with same‐ and other‐gender peers1
Picture book reading improves children's learning understanding1
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Older adults' name–face association learning is facilitated for names with high‐frequency first syllables1
Who feels happier right now?: The impact of temporal distance on children's judgements of emotional intensity1
Commentary on Autism and the double‐empathy problem: Implications for development and mental health1
On a need‐to‐know basis: Young children distinguish conventional and privileged information1
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Emotion understanding among institutionalized preschool children in India: A visual‐based approach1
Erratum: Early childhood educators' mental state language and children's theory of mind in the preschool setting1
Two‐year‐olds selectively seek help, but not based on helper maturity1
Balancing exploration and exploitation? The impact of cost and inhibitory control on information gathering in early childhood1
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Preteens social media use: Parents' and children's perceptions of what mediation approaches are used and why1
New insights and approaches to early learning1
Does first‐hand evidence undermine young children's initial trust in positive gossip? Evidence from 5‐ to 6‐year‐old children0
Adolescent chronic pain links parental rejection to young adult biopsychosocial problems0
Children’s developing views of social excluders: A dissociation between social evaluation and partner preference0
The influence of socioeconomic status and appearance‐reality understanding on pre‐schoolers' sharing and generosity0
Boy's math performance, compared to girls', jumps at age 6 (in the ELFE's data at least)0
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Effects of conflicting emotional cues on toddlers’ emotion perception0
I help, therefore, I am?—longitudinal interrelations of the three‐dimensional moral self‐concept and prosocial behaviours in 4–6‐year‐old children0
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Training kindergarten children on learning from their mistakes0
The impact of informant gender on children’s endorsement of scientific and non‐scientific information0
Transformative tales: The role of story videos on children's reasoning about transgender identities0
Psychomotor development in two‐year‐old Ivorian and Ghanaian children – Psychometric properties of the Kilifi Developmental Inventory0
Do children imitate even when it is costly? New insights from a novel task0
Cognitive heterogeneity in Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Implications for maths0
Being helpful to other‐gender peers: School‐age children's gender‐based intergroup prosocial behaviour0
Overcoming socioeconomic adversity: Academic resilience in mathematics achievement among children and adolescents in Ireland0
Household clutter and crowding constrain associations between maternal sensitivity and child theory of mind0
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Self‐concept clarity and envy as mediators between upward social comparison on social networking sites and subjective well‐being0
Collaboration at a microscale: Cultural differences in family interactions0
Age‐related qualitative differences in post‐error cognitive control adjustments0
Investigating associations between parent engagement and toddlers' mathematics performance0
Children's developing understanding of economic inequality and their place within it0
Taking parent personality and child temperament into account in child language development0
Parental control and adolescent social anxiety: A focus on emotional regulation strategies and socioeconomic influences in China0
When the internet is wrong: Children’s trust in an inaccurate internet or human source0
The relationship between executive functioning and self‐regulated learning in Australian children0
The structure of executive functioning in 11 to 14 year olds with and without special educational needs0
Human's moral judgements towards different social actors: A cross‐sectional study0
Gender identity importance in cisgender and gender diverse adolescents in the US and Canada0
Parents' mental state language and child gender: A scoping review of developmental evidence0
Erratum: Parental scaffolding and children's math ability: The type of activities matters0
Young children expect pretend object identities to be known only by their partners in joint pretence0
Background context affects word‐object mapping0
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A shortened version of Raven’s standard progressive matrices for children and adolescents0
Witnessed inclusion improves identification of Duchenne and non‐Duchenne smiles0
Parental warmth predicts more child pro‐social behaviour in children with better emotion regulation0
Executive functions, math anxiety and math performance in middle school students0
Prospective associations between social status and social anxiety in early adolescence0
Episodic future thinking and delay of gratification in children: Is imagining reward pay‐off helpful?0
Three‐ but not 2‐year‐olds misinform others spontaneously in an interaction‐based task0
White American transgender adults' retrospective reports on the social and contextual aspects of their gender identity development0
Generous descriptive norms change children's pre‐existing decisions and expectations about sharing behaviour0
Using behavioural network mapping to investigate dyadic play in girls with congenital adrenal hyperplasia0
The influence of semantics on long‐term visual memory capacity in children and adults0
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Bystander responses in five‐steps: Paving road to prosocial intervention to social exclusion through social‐cognition0
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Exploring the intersection of gender identity and homoparental family structure: Implications for educational, family and personal well‐being in Spanish students0
Contributions of cognitive flexibility, inhibition and number label knowledge to numerical equivalence in 3‐ to 5‐year‐old children0
Loneliness trajectories and psychological distress in youth: Longitudinal evidence from a population‐based sample0
A cross‐cultural study of children's graphic representations of men‐ and women‐dominated occupations0
Development and validation of a short form for the Raven's Coloured Progressive Matrices using a machine learning approach0
Differential effects of maternal‐ and paternal‐adolescent attachments on friendship security and intimacy0
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Self‐processing and social functioning in autistic preschoolers0
The development of ambivalent sexism: Proposals for an expanded model0
Who holds the social power? The development of children's social power perceptions in China0
Feedback and observational learning differ in effectiveness during category learning in early school aged children and adults0
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Adolescents' perceptions of using likes, comments, and other reactions—A qualitative investigation0
Gender‐stereotypical attribution of fear and fearlessness in preschool children0
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Attrition in a large‐scale habituation task administered at home0
Examining the influence of encoding and retrieval contexts on 2‐ to 4‐year‐olds' acquisition of nouns and verbs0
Trajectories of adolescent stressful life events and young adults’ socioeconomic and relational outcomes: Weight and depressive symptoms as mediators0
Emotion dysregulation and symptoms of anxiety and depression in early adolescence: Bidirectional longitudinal associations and the antecedent role of parent–child attachment0
The last pink straw: Children's and parents' judgements about gender nonconformity0
Cognitive offloading bias in primary and secondary school students and its relationship with metacognitive monitoring0
The effects of model age and familiarity on children's reproduction of ritual behaviour0
Mastering balance: The use of balance bicycles promotes the development of independent cycling0
Evidence‐based meets community‐centred: A new approach to creating informal learning opportunities for children0
Development of subjective well‐being and its relationship with self‐esteem in early adolescence0
Exploring the relationship between personality traits and locus of control in early adolescence. Does gender play a role?0
Menstruation experiences and its association with psychological distress among school‐going adolescent girls of Nepal: A cross‐sectional study0
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Prospective associations between grandiose narcissism and perfectionism: A longitudinal study in adolescence0
Determinants of ethnic identity development in adulthood: A longitudinal study0
Inhibitory deficits and symptoms of attention‐deficit hyperactivity disorder: How are they related to effortful control?0
Recognition of facial emotions across the lifespan: 8‐year‐olds resemble older adults0
Thinking about the past, present, and future: Time perspective and self‐esteem in adolescents, young adults, middle‐aged adults, and older adults0
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The roles of different executive functioning skills in young children’s mental computation and applied mathematical problem‐solving0
Early markers of literacy and numeracy in Chinese children: The roles of counting and rapid automatized naming0
A bridge to [em]power: A commentary on ‘collaboration at a microscale: Cultural differences in family interactions’0
What do measures of gender identity tell us about gender identity over time?0
The immediate post‐viewing effects of animated fantastical events on the executive function of Chinese kindergarteners with high and low fantasy orientations0
Memory biases for gender‐typed images in a gender‐diverse group of children0
Maternal beliefs about the benefits and costs of child and adolescent friendship0
Approximating the ZPD? Young children's judgements of appropriate task level for learning0
The self‐reference effect in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder0
From mindreading to originality: Exploring the relationship between Theory of Mind and Creativity across the lifespan0
Numeracy skills in young children as predictors of mathematical competence0
Autistic and non‐autistic transgender youth are similar in gender development and sexuality phenotypes0
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Preliminary development of a brief parent‐report gender identity alignment/distress screener for children0
Do goal cue and motor activity impact preschoolers’ working memory?0
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Media exposure and preschoolers' social‐cognitive development0
Parental reflective functioning and internalizing symptoms predict altruistic prosocial behaviour in children0
The role of theory of mind, group norms and intentionality in children's and adolescents' moral evaluations of a misinformer0
Harnessing the power of nature exposure to mitigate adolescents' Internet addiction: A chain mediation model0
Older adults' decision‐making following bad advice0
Coping strategies employed by transgender youth with higher and lower quality of life0
The role of parents’ autonomy support and psychological control in sibling relationship functioning through children’s need‐based experiences0
Narratives of preterm and full‐term preschool‐aged children: Analyses of different narrative dimensions0
Associations between symptoms of maternal postpartum depression, gestational age and infant social withdrawal: A longitudinal study in a community cohort0
Do children and adults take leadership hierarchy into account when evaluating and punishing uncooperative individuals?0
Infant behavioural effects of smartphone interrupted parent‐infant interaction0
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Exploring the impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on the identity of trans and gender diverse youth0
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Moderating effect of attachment to parents on the association between bullying and self‐esteem among early adolescents aged 10 to 120
Shifting children’s attentional focus to emotions during art museum experiences0
The link between early adolescents' gender discrimination and gender attitudes about peers: Does gender similarity matter?0
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Verbal but not visual–spatial working memory contributes to complex arithmetic calculation0
Rates of family history of autism and ADHD varies with recruitment approach and socio‐economic status0
Categorization of second language accents by bilingual and multilingual listeners0
Latent profiles of maternal disrupted communication: Relations to affect and behaviour in early infancy0
Identity development and adjustment during emerging adulthood from a gender perspective0
‘But wait, that isn't real’: A proof‐of‐concept study evaluating ‘Project Real’, a co‐created intervention that helps young people to spot fake news online0
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