OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Social Development is 4. 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.)

Article	Citations
Predicting children's internalizing symptoms across development from early emotional reactivity	46
Children's Theory of Mind and Family Socioeconomic Status: What Can Different Approaches and Contexts Tell Us About the Same Construct?	35
“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 friends	29
Social Development	24
Trajectories of adolescents’ depressive symptoms surrounding the transition to vocational education	21
Children's Perspective on Parental Lying and Its Effect on Trust: Co‐Creation of an Instrument and Pilot Results	18
Real‐Time Contingencies of Emotion Socialization During Parent–Adolescent Conflicts	15
Chinese Parents’ Understanding and Socialization of Gratitude	15
Development and validation of the Dutch Social Attunement Questionnaire (SAQ)	14
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Adolescents’ moral reasoning when honesty and loyalty collide	13
The power of teacher‐toddler relationships and stability of care for language development	12
Trajectories of team and individual sports participation in childhood and links with internalizing problems	11
A comparison of models for inferring longitudinal reciprocal relationships between constructs: A case example with internalizing and externalizing problems	11
Social Development	11
Gender essentialism predicts prejudice against gender nonconformity in two cultural contexts	11
Children's and adolescents’ evaluations of wealth‐related STEM inequality	11
Imaginary athletes: Prevalence, forms, and developmental functions	11
The role of between‐group competition in children's within‐group merit‐based resource allocation	11
Chaos, Distress and Crowding in the Home: Disentangling Associations With Child Behaviour	10
Mr Predator and Mrs Prey: Gender Stereotypes in Children's Films Correlate With Explicit and Implicit Gender Stereotyping	10
Using a Continuous Measure of Child Gender Identity to Explore Mother–Child Agreement	10
Preschoolers' Gender Identification Rigidity Relates to Their Gender‐Typed Predictions for Others	10
Children's interpretations of parental responses to children's negative emotions in Chinese urban and rural communities	10
Retrospective accounts of first exposure to minoritized sexual and gender identities	9

Theory of mind, gender, gains in friendships versus peer acceptance and anxious solitude from middle childhood through early adolescence	9
When does ownership matter? Parents’ reasoning about children's conflicts over possessions	9
Parental warmth and guilt induction: Associations with prosocial behaviors and the mediating role of values in Chinese adolescents	9
Infants follow the gaze of same‐age peers, young children, and adults	8
A Latent Class Analysis Predicting STEM Career Interest and Perceptions of Barriers	8
Latine children's attributions of cultural and structural discrimination and the role of neighborhood context	8
Dimensions of parenting during infancy: Testing a latent bifactor model	8
Firstborn Behavioral Problems Predict Later Sibling Relationship Quality: The Moderating Role of Maternal Sensitivity and Mind‐Mindedness	8
Prosocial behaviour between siblings exposed to intimate partner violence	8
Executive Functioning Across the Transition to Kindergarten: Links With Social and Academic Outcomes in Early Childhood	8
Supporting Early Social‐Emotional Competencies Through Reading and Play: Findings From an RCT of the Tiered Smart Beginnings Program	7
Metamotivational Beliefs in Middle Childhood: Evaluating Children's Understanding of Task‐Motivation Fit	7
Family alliance and infants’ vagal tone: The mediating role of infants’ reactions to unadjusted parental behaviors	7
Parental Warmth and Emotion Reactivity in the Brain: Differences by Assigned Sex	7
Social Cognitive Skills in African American Youth: Parental Cognitive Restructuring and Youth Support Seeking	7
Between a boy and a girl: Measuring gender identity on a continuum	7
Longitudinal trajectories of maternal parenting stress in Korean families: Children's executive function and school adjustment	7
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How dislike and bullying co‐develop: A longitudinal study of negative relationships among children	6
Ingroup and outgroup preference and rejection among young children of different ethnic groups in the Netherlands	6
“Like Two Musketeers”: Socialization beliefs about toddler's friendships among Dominican, Mexican, and African American mothers	6
Earlier false belief understanding predicts later lie‐telling behavior in preschool children, but not vice versa	6
Hostile Caregiving, ADHD Symptoms, and Child Behavior	6
Longitudinal associations between coping and peer victimization: Moderation by gender and initial peer victimization	6
How being observed influences preschoolers’ emotions following (less) deserving help	5
Preschoolers’ responses to prosocial opportunities during naturalistic interactions with peers: A cross‐cultural comparison	5
Same gender typicality, risky technology use, and disordered eating among adolescents	5
Empathy in preschool Portuguese children: Validation of the Empathy Questionnaire (EmQue)	5
Parental play supportiveness and kindergartners’ peer problems: Children's playfulness as a potential mediator	5
Differential Susceptibility to Friendship Quality: The Role of Need for Approval	5
Age‐related differences in reasoning about the acceptability of eating animals	5
Measuring social and emotional functioning as a facet of positive youth development among children and adolescents in special education and mental health treatment	5
Adaptation and validation of the French version of empathy questionnaire in preschoolers	5
Parental Threat Perception and Hyper‐Parenting as Potential Risk Factors for Adolescents’ Test Anxiety	5
Longitudinal associations between pet relationship quality and socio‐emotional functioning in early adolescence	5
How children tell a (prosocial) lie from an (ironic) joke: The role of shared knowledge	4
The effect of different types of social norms on children's sharing behavior: The roles of parents, teachers, and peers	4
The effect of social inhibition on preschoolers' behavior problems: The moderating role of maternal parenting styles	4
Virtual reality training to improve socio‐emotional functioning in adolescents with developmental language disorders: A multiple baseline effectiveness study	4
Paternal activation parenting and growth in children's inhibitory control across early childhood	4
Linguistic but not minimal group membership modulates spontaneous level‐2 perspective interference in 8‐year‐old children	4
Early intergroup coalition: Toddlers attribute fair distributions to Black rather than White distributors	4
Science resource inequalities viewed as less wrong when girls are disadvantaged	4
Rejection or Tolerance of Bullies: The Roles of Descriptive, Injunctive, and Popularity Norms	4
Long‐term implications of childhood and adolescent popularity for social behavior and status in emerging adulthood	4
Peers’ emotionality and children's academic achievement in second grade: Testing the moderating role of children's behavioral self‐regulation	4
How Family Assets and Debts Relate to Children's Achievement and Behavior Problems Across Development	4
“Spilling the tea” on generation Z social media use and body image	4
How Should We Treat Farmed Animals? Adolescents Are More Speciesist Than Adults	4
Comparing methods of social preference assessment in childhood	4

Making “fast friends” online in middle childhood and early adolescence	4
Children's inductive inferences about individuals with gender category uncertainty	4
Parental affective personality and children's self‐reported internalising and externalising behaviour	4