Social Development

Papers
(The median citation count of Social Development 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
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Chinese Parents’ Understanding and Socialization of Gratitude37
Children's Theory of Mind and Family Socioeconomic Status: What Can Different Approaches and Contexts Tell Us About the Same Construct?30
Children's Perspective on Parental Lying and Its Effect on Trust: Co‐Creation of an Instrument and Pilot Results27
“The chug is coming through!” “There's two chuggas!”: A longitudinal study of the social function of imitation in children's play with siblings and friends22
Maternal caregiving, prosocial behavior, and self‐esteem in middle childhood22
Adolescents’ moral reasoning when honesty and loyalty collide21
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Development and validation of the Dutch Social Attunement Questionnaire (SAQ)18
Trajectories of adolescents’ depressive symptoms surrounding the transition to vocational education18
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Predicting children's internalizing symptoms across development from early emotional reactivity14
Trajectories of team and individual sports participation in childhood and links with internalizing problems12
The power of teacher‐toddler relationships and stability of care for language development12
Imaginary athletes: Prevalence, forms, and developmental functions11
Gender essentialism predicts prejudice against gender nonconformity in two cultural contexts11
A comparison of models for inferring longitudinal reciprocal relationships between constructs: A case example with internalizing and externalizing problems11
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Children's and adolescents’ evaluations of wealth‐related STEM inequality11
Children's interpretations of parental responses to children's negative emotions in Chinese urban and rural communities11
Preschoolers' Gender Identification Rigidity Relates to Their Gender‐Typed Predictions for Others10
The role of between‐group competition in children's within‐group merit‐based resource allocation10
Mr Predator and Mrs Prey: Gender Stereotypes in Children's Films Correlate With Explicit and Implicit Gender Stereotyping10
Capacity for social contingency detection continues to develop across adolescence10
Parenting, young children's behavioral self‐regulation and the quality of their peer relationships10
Parental warmth and guilt induction: Associations with prosocial behaviors and the mediating role of values in Chinese adolescents10
Retrospective accounts of first exposure to minoritized sexual and gender identities9
Adolescent intergroup connections and their developmental benefits: Exploring contributions from social network analysis9
Latine children's attributions of cultural and structural discrimination and the role of neighborhood context9
When does ownership matter? Parents’ reasoning about children's conflicts over possessions9
Infants follow the gaze of same‐age peers, young children, and adults9
Theory of mind, gender, gains in friendships versus peer acceptance and anxious solitude from middle childhood through early adolescence9
Firstborn Behavioral Problems Predict Later Sibling Relationship Quality: The Moderating Role of Maternal Sensitivity and Mind‐Mindedness8
Longitudinal trajectories of maternal parenting stress in Korean families: Children's executive function and school adjustment8
Metamotivational Beliefs in Middle Childhood: Evaluating Children's Understanding of Task‐Motivation Fit8
Executive Functioning Across the Transition to Kindergarten: Links With Social and Academic Outcomes in Early Childhood8
Between a boy and a girl: Measuring gender identity on a continuum7
Prosocial behaviour between siblings exposed to intimate partner violence7
Supporting Early Social‐Emotional Competencies Through Reading and Play: Findings From an RCT of the Tiered Smart Beginnings Program7
A Latent Class Analysis Predicting STEM Career Interest and Perceptions of Barriers7
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Parental Warmth and Emotion Reactivity in the Brain: Differences by Assigned Sex7
Dimensions of parenting during infancy: Testing a latent bifactor model7
Earlier false belief understanding predicts later lie‐telling behavior in preschool children, but not vice versa6
Parental Threat Perception and Hyper‐Parenting as Potential Risk Factors for Adolescents’ Test Anxiety6
Social Cognitive Skills in African American Youth: Parental Cognitive Restructuring and Youth Support Seeking6
Family alliance and infants’ vagal tone: The mediating role of infants’ reactions to unadjusted parental behaviors6
Ingroup and outgroup preference and rejection among young children of different ethnic groups in the Netherlands6
Parental play supportiveness and kindergartners’ peer problems: Children's playfulness as a potential mediator5
Academic development and disparities in linguistically diverse middle school classrooms: The role of social network equality and linguistic integration5
Hostile Caregiving, ADHD Symptoms, and Child Behavior5
Differential Susceptibility to Friendship Quality: The Role of Need for Approval5
Measuring social and emotional functioning as a facet of positive youth development among children and adolescents in special education and mental health treatment5
How being observed influences preschoolers’ emotions following (less) deserving help5
“Like Two Musketeers”: Socialization beliefs about toddler's friendships among Dominican, Mexican, and African American mothers5
How dislike and bullying co‐develop: A longitudinal study of negative relationships among children5
Cultural variation in the early development of initiative in children's prosocial helping5
Science resource inequalities viewed as less wrong when girls are disadvantaged5
Preschoolers’ responses to prosocial opportunities during naturalistic interactions with peers: A cross‐cultural comparison5
Longitudinal associations between coping and peer victimization: Moderation by gender and initial peer victimization5
Social development quartet: Benefits of intergroup connections: Examining associations between peer networks and academic and socio‐emotional competencies of diverse youth5
Adaptation and validation of the French version of empathy questionnaire in preschoolers5
Age‐related differences in reasoning about the acceptability of eating animals5
Empathy in preschool Portuguese children: Validation of the Empathy Questionnaire (EmQue)5
Same gender typicality, risky technology use, and disordered eating among adolescents4
Virtual reality training to improve socio‐emotional functioning in adolescents with developmental language disorders: A multiple baseline effectiveness study4
Comparing methods of social preference assessment in childhood4
Children's inductive inferences about individuals with gender category uncertainty4
“Spilling the tea” on generation Z social media use and body image4
The effect of different types of social norms on children's sharing behavior: The roles of parents, teachers, and peers4
Early intergroup coalition: Toddlers attribute fair distributions to Black rather than White distributors4
Rejection or Tolerance of Bullies: The Roles of Descriptive, Injunctive, and Popularity Norms4
The effect of social inhibition on preschoolers' behavior problems: The moderating role of maternal parenting styles4
Linguistic but not minimal group membership modulates spontaneous level‐2 perspective interference in 8‐year‐old children4
Longitudinal associations between pet relationship quality and socio‐emotional functioning in early adolescence4
Parental affective personality and children's self‐reported internalising and externalising behaviour4
How Should We Treat Farmed Animals? Adolescents Are More Speciesist Than Adults4
Growth in positive relationship quality with mothers, fathers, and siblings and associations with depressive symptoms and emotionally supportive prosocial behaviors during the transition to adulthood4
How children tell a (prosocial) lie from an (ironic) joke: The role of shared knowledge4
Social intelligence as moderator in the relation between narcissism and aggression in at‐risk adolescents3
Making “fast friends” online in middle childhood and early adolescence3
Paternal activation parenting and growth in children's inhibitory control across early childhood3
Using Language to Test Developmental Differences in Attitudes Toward Solitude in Adolescents and Emerging Adults3
An Observational Study of Parents Reading a Storybook About Bullying to Their Young Child: Are Bystander Responses Discussed?3
Peers’ emotionality and children's academic achievement in second grade: Testing the moderating role of children's behavioral self‐regulation3
Long‐term implications of childhood and adolescent popularity for social behavior and status in emerging adulthood3
Siblings in lockdown: International evidence for birth order effects on child adjustment in the Covid19 pandemic3
Mother‐child bidirectional influences in the development of concern for others: Disentangling positive parenting in two predominantly white, North American Samples3
Parent Emotion Socialization Framework During Early Childhood in Eastern Cultures3
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Spanish validation of the Emotion Regulation Checklist (ERC) in preschool and elementary children: Relationship with emotion knowledge3
A 6‐year longitudinal exploration of diversity in ethnically/racially minoritized children's early peer circles3
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The influence of age and experience of (un)fairness on third‐party punishment in children3
Developmental deviations in happy victimization across early childhood predict behavioral adjustment in middle childhood3
Conscious selection: Critical consciousness informs cultivation of social networks in a living and learning community2
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The co‐evolution of friendship, defending behaviors, and peer victimization: A short‐term longitudinal social network analysis2
Systematic Review and Meta‐Analyses Reveal no Gender Difference in Neonatal Social Perception2
Intimate partner violence and preschool self‐regulation: Examining the role of maternal emotion socialization in Black families2
Social reward predicts false belief understanding in Namibian Hai||om children2
Moderating Effects of Group‐ and Self‐Orientations on the Relations Between Peer Victimization and Adjustment in Chinese Adolescents2
No one is going to recess: How children evaluate collective and targeted punishment2
Examining links between affective empathy, cognitive empathy, and peer relationships at the transition to school2
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“Children Understand More at that Age”: African American, Mexican, Dominican, and Chinese Heritage US Mothers’ Conceptions of Race Readiness2
Dimensional model of socioemotional learning built on a large‐scale sample of Chilean students2
Developmental differences in young children's implied use of cognitive resources in their self‐regulation strategies2
Parent‐reported problematic lying tendencies and BIS/BAS activity as predictors of children's antisocial lie‐telling2
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Mothers’ communicative cues and the development of infants’ helping: Linking participation and problem solving in the first year of life2
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Solitary groups: A latent profile analysis of motivations for social withdrawal and experiences of solitude in late childhood and early adolescence2
Investigating the skills of a preschool leader: A latent profile analysis2
Parental unconditional acceptance: An antidote to parental conditional regard2
Using wearable sensors to explore schoolyard interactions of mainstreamed deaf and hard‐of‐hearing preadolescents2
Child temperamental negative affectivity moderates the relation between interparental conflict and child cortisol recovery2
The moderating effect of facial emotion recognition in maternal emotion socialization and child socioemotional adjustment2
Eight‐ to 12‐year‐old US children's emerging subjective social status identity and intergroup attitudes2
Chinese adolescents’ attitudes and beliefs about shy, unsociable, and socially avoidant peers2
Preschool predictors of loneliness in school‐age children2
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Growth in Early Mother–Child Dyadic Qualities and Relations to Preschool Problem Behavior2
Turkish adaptation of the mindful parenting inventories for parents and children1
Hostile Attribution Biases and Evaluation of Vocally Enacted Responses to Peer Provocation in Early Adolescents1
How Did the Relationship Between Technology Use and Sleep Change During the Pandemic for High Schoolers? Evidence from a County‐Wide Sample1
Reputation and prosocial lies in development1
The effect of intent and character information on children's evaluations of third‐party transgressions1
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Children's Decision‐Making About Others Reflects Gender Stereotypes More Than Race: Evidence From a US Sample1
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Young Children's Strategic Evaluation of Others’ Work1
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Student, classroom, and teacher factors associated with teachers’ attunement to bullies and victims1
Is knowledge of racial identity development necessary? White transracial adoptive parents' intentions to promote Black adoptees’ racial‐ethnic identity1
Within‐ and between‐person associations among internalizing and externalizing problems during middle childhood1
Aggression in toddlers: Associations with temper loss and parent‐child conflict1
Parent‐child relationship buffers the impact of maternal psychological control on aggression in temperamentally surgent children1
A meta‐analysis of the association between teacher support and school engagement1
Text mining and sentiment analysis: A new lens to explore the emotion dynamics of mother‐child interactions1
Can You Make Me Laugh? Toddlers’ and Parents’ Shared Positive Expressions in Playful Interactions1
Cross‐group contact predicts positive beliefs about girls’ and Black peers’ STEM abilities and occupational prospects1
Black adolescents’ support to the family and educational outcomes: Differences by household income1
Decisions and mechanisms of intergroup bias in children's third‐party punishment1
Moral emotions in early childhood: Validation of the Chinese moral emotion questionnaire1
Emotion socialization in cultural context: Lessons from Asian‐heritage families1
Young Children Use Direct and Indirect Evidence in Their Inferential Reasoning1
Creation of an Adapted Short‐Form Version of The Coping With Toddlers’ Negative Emotions Scale, an Emotion Socialization Measure for Parents of Toddlers1
Correlates of children's sympathy: Recognition and regulation of sadness and anger1
Fighting stigma‐based bullying in primary school children: An experimental intervention using vicarious intergroup contact and social norms1
Shyness, social engagement, and conversational response times in children's dyadic interactions with an unfamiliar peer1
Assessing children's relationships with pet dogs: A multi‐method approach1
Trajectories of temperamental shyness and attention shifting in Chinese children and their relations to psychosocial adjustment at entry to elementary school1
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Is the development of diversification in executive functioning universal? Longitudinal evidence from Ghana1
Children's help‐seeking expectations during preschool years: The effects of situational stress levels and help‐seekers’ competence1
Concurrent and prospective effects of income, adversity, and parenting behaviors on middle‐childhood effortful control and adjustment1
Broadening gender self‐categorization development to include transgender identities1
Trusting others who vary in consistency between their personal standards and behavior: Differences by age, gender, and honesty trust beliefs1
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Does Children's Developing Understanding of Linguistic Register Impact Their Social Preferences?1
Prosocial risk taking and interpersonal regret in children: An individual differences study1
Examining the Interactions Between Subjective Social Status and Self‐Referential Processing on Social Anxiety and Depressive Symptoms in Early Adolescents1
Secure attachment and social and personality outcomes: The moderating role of emerging adults’ autobiographical memories of parents1
Repeated Transgressions Promote Costly Third‐Party Punishment in 6‐Year‐Olds1
Preschool‐aged children's responses to unfairness and subsequent sharing behavior in dyadic contexts1
Empathy as a Risky Strength: Associations With Parent and Child Depressive Symptoms in Middle Childhood1
Children's understanding of values as mental concepts: Longitudinal changes and association with theory of mind1
Judgements of identity claims vary for monoracial and biracial people1
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