OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Social Development is 3. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Maternal caregiving, prosocial behavior, and self‐esteem in middle childhood	26
Development and validation of the Dutch Social Attunement Questionnaire (SAQ)	24
“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	23
Predicting children's internalizing symptoms across development from early emotional reactivity	21
Children's Theory of Mind and Family Socioeconomic Status: What Can Different Approaches and Contexts Tell Us About the Same Construct?	19
Trajectories of adolescents’ depressive symptoms surrounding the transition to vocational education	19
Social Development	17
Chinese Parents’ Understanding and Socialization of Gratitude	17
Adolescents’ moral reasoning when honesty and loyalty collide	17
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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	12
Imaginary athletes: Prevalence, forms, and developmental functions	11
The role of between‐group competition in children's within‐group merit‐based resource allocation	10
Social Development	10
A comparison of models for inferring longitudinal reciprocal relationships between constructs: A case example with internalizing and externalizing problems	10
Children's interpretations of parental responses to children's negative emotions in Chinese urban and rural communities	10
Children's and adolescents’ evaluations of wealth‐related STEM inequality	10
Parenting, young children's behavioral self‐regulation and the quality of their peer relationships	9
Capacity for social contingency detection continues to develop across adolescence	9
Parental warmth and guilt induction: Associations with prosocial behaviors and the mediating role of values in Chinese adolescents	9
Gender essentialism predicts prejudice against gender nonconformity in two cultural contexts	9
Adolescent intergroup connections and their developmental benefits: Exploring contributions from social network analysis	9
Preschoolers' Gender Identification Rigidity Relates to Their Gender‐Typed Predictions for Others	9
Theory of mind, gender, gains in friendships versus peer acceptance and anxious solitude from middle childhood through early adolescence	9

Mr Predator and Mrs Prey: Gender Stereotypes in Children's Films Correlate With Explicit and Implicit Gender Stereotyping	9
Prosocial behaviour between siblings exposed to intimate partner violence	8
When does ownership matter? Parents’ reasoning about children's conflicts over possessions	8
Metamotivational Beliefs in Middle Childhood: Evaluating Children's Understanding of Task‐Motivation Fit	8
Retrospective accounts of first exposure to minoritized sexual and gender identities	8
Firstborn Behavioral Problems Predict Later Sibling Relationship Quality: The Moderating Role of Maternal Sensitivity and Mind‐Mindedness	8
Longitudinal trajectories of maternal parenting stress in Korean families: Children's executive function and school adjustment	8
Latine children's attributions of cultural and structural discrimination and the role of neighborhood context	7
A Latent Class Analysis Predicting STEM Career Interest and Perceptions of Barriers	7
Infants follow the gaze of same‐age peers, young children, and adults	7
Executive Functioning Across the Transition to Kindergarten: Links With Social and Academic Outcomes in Early Childhood	7
Dimensions of parenting during infancy: Testing a latent bifactor model	7
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Parental play supportiveness and kindergartners’ peer problems: Children's playfulness as a potential mediator	6
Ingroup and outgroup preference and rejection among young children of different ethnic groups in the Netherlands	6
Social Cognitive Skills in African American Youth: Parental Cognitive Restructuring and Youth Support Seeking	6
Two forms of mother–child reciprocity and their links to children's cooperativeness	6
How being observed influences preschoolers’ emotions following (less) deserving help	6
Between a boy and a girl: Measuring gender identity on a continuum	6
Social development quartet: Benefits of intergroup connections: Examining associations between peer networks and academic and socio‐emotional competencies of diverse youth	6
How dislike and bullying co‐develop: A longitudinal study of negative relationships among children	6
Science resource inequalities viewed as less wrong when girls are disadvantaged	5
Same gender typicality, risky technology use, and disordered eating among adolescents	5
Academic development and disparities in linguistically diverse middle school classrooms: The role of social network equality and linguistic integration	5
Adaptation and validation of the French version of empathy questionnaire in preschoolers	5
Earlier false belief understanding predicts later lie‐telling behavior in preschool children, but not vice versa	5
Cultural variation in the early development of initiative in children's prosocial helping	5
Preschoolers’ responses to prosocial opportunities during naturalistic interactions with peers: A cross‐cultural comparison	5
Longitudinal associations between coping and peer victimization: Moderation by gender and initial peer victimization	5
Parental Threat Perception and Hyper‐Parenting as Potential Risk Factors for Adolescents’ Test Anxiety	5
Age‐related differences in reasoning about the acceptability of eating animals	5
Linguistic but not minimal group membership modulates spontaneous level‐2 perspective interference in 8‐year‐old children	5
“Like Two Musketeers”: Socialization beliefs about toddler's friendships among Dominican, Mexican, and African American mothers	5
Family alliance and infants’ vagal tone: The mediating role of infants’ reactions to unadjusted parental behaviors	5
Empathy in preschool Portuguese children: Validation of the Empathy Questionnaire (EmQue)	5
How children tell a (prosocial) lie from an (ironic) joke: The role of shared knowledge	4
Differential Susceptibility to Friendship Quality: The Role of Need for Approval	4
The effect of social inhibition on preschoolers' behavior problems: The moderating role of maternal parenting styles	4
Rejection or Tolerance of Bullies: The Roles of Descriptive, Injunctive, and Popularity Norms	4
Measuring social and emotional functioning as a facet of positive youth development among children and adolescents in special education and mental health treatment	4
Longitudinal associations between pet relationship quality and socio‐emotional functioning in early adolescence	4
Parental affective personality and children's self‐reported internalising and externalising behaviour	4
Early intergroup coalition: Toddlers attribute fair distributions to Black rather than White distributors	4
“Spilling the tea” on generation Z social media use and body image	4
The effect of different types of social norms on children's sharing behavior: The roles of parents, teachers, and peers	4
Children's inductive inferences about individuals with gender category uncertainty	4
Making “fast friends” online in middle childhood and early adolescence	3
Developmental deviations in happy victimization across early childhood predict behavioral adjustment in middle childhood	3
Social Development	3
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Social intelligence as moderator in the relation between narcissism and aggression in at‐risk adolescents	3
Peers’ emotionality and children's academic achievement in second grade: Testing the moderating role of children's behavioral self‐regulation	3
Virtual reality training to improve socio‐emotional functioning in adolescents with developmental language disorders: A multiple baseline effectiveness study	3
How Should We Treat Farmed Animals? Adolescents Are More Speciesist Than Adults	3
Using Language to Test Developmental Differences in Attitudes Toward Solitude in Adolescents and Emerging Adults	3
Spanish validation of the Emotion Regulation Checklist (ERC) in preschool and elementary children: Relationship with emotion knowledge	3
Social Development	3
Paternal activation parenting and growth in children's inhibitory control across early childhood	3
Growth in positive relationship quality with mothers, fathers, and siblings and associations with depressive symptoms and emotionally supportive prosocial behaviors during the transition to adulthood	3
Comparing methods of social preference assessment in childhood	3
Long‐term implications of childhood and adolescent popularity for social behavior and status in emerging adulthood	3
Siblings in lockdown: International evidence for birth order effects on child adjustment in the Covid19 pandemic	3
Mother‐child bidirectional influences in the development of concern for others: Disentangling positive parenting in two predominantly white, North American Samples	3
The influence of age and experience of (un)fairness on third‐party punishment in children	3
A 6‐year longitudinal exploration of diversity in ethnically/racially minoritized children's early peer circles	3