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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
“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	75
Social Development	23
Children's Theory of Mind and Family Socioeconomic Status: What Can Different Approaches and Contexts Tell Us About the Same Construct?	17
Children's Perspective on Parental Lying and Its Effect on Trust: Co‐Creation of an Instrument and Pilot Results	16
Development and validation of the Dutch Social Attunement Questionnaire (SAQ)	15
Adolescents’ moral reasoning when honesty and loyalty collide	15
Real‐Time Contingencies of Emotion Socialization During Parent–Adolescent Conflicts	14
Predicting children's internalizing symptoms across development from early emotional reactivity	14
Trajectories of adolescents’ depressive symptoms surrounding the transition to vocational education	12
Co‐Regulation Within Adolescent Friendships	12
What Are the Consequences of Online Civic Engagement for Youth? A Longitudinal Study of Bidirectional Links With Civic and Social Outcomes	11
The power of teacher‐toddler relationships and stability of care for language development	11
Chinese Parents’ Understanding and Socialization of Gratitude	11
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Using a Continuous Measure of Child Gender Identity to Explore Mother–Child Agreement	11
Gender essentialism predicts prejudice against gender nonconformity in two cultural contexts	10
Social Development	10
Children's interpretations of parental responses to children's negative emotions in Chinese urban and rural communities	10
A comparison of models for inferring longitudinal reciprocal relationships between constructs: A case example with internalizing and externalizing problems	10
The role of between‐group competition in children's within‐group merit‐based resource allocation	9
Longitudinal Associations Between Pubertal Development and Youth Behavioral Adjustment in the Context of Parent and Peer Relationships	9
Children's and adolescents’ evaluations of wealth‐related STEM inequality	9
Imaginary athletes: Prevalence, forms, and developmental functions	9
Mr Predator and Mrs Prey: Gender Stereotypes in Children's Films Correlate With Explicit and Implicit Gender Stereotyping	8
“We Might Get What We Need, but Not What We Want”: Children's and Adolescents' Perceptions of Subjective Socioeconomic Status in Türkiye	8

Preschoolers' Gender Identification Rigidity Relates to Their Gender‐Typed Predictions for Others	8
Trajectories of team and individual sports participation in childhood and links with internalizing problems	8
Ethno‐Religious Socialization Among Majority and Minority Group Children in a Post‐Conflict Society	8
Chaos, Distress and Crowding in the Home: Disentangling Associations With Child Behaviour	8
Parental warmth and guilt induction: Associations with prosocial behaviors and the mediating role of values in Chinese adolescents	7
Dimensions of parenting during infancy: Testing a latent bifactor model	7
Retrospective accounts of first exposure to minoritized sexual and gender identities	7
Latine children's attributions of cultural and structural discrimination and the role of neighborhood context	7
Theory of mind, gender, gains in friendships versus peer acceptance and anxious solitude from middle childhood through early adolescence	7
Executive Functioning Across the Transition to Kindergarten: Links With Social and Academic Outcomes in Early Childhood	7
Firstborn Behavioral Problems Predict Later Sibling Relationship Quality: The Moderating Role of Maternal Sensitivity and Mind‐Mindedness	6
Longitudinal trajectories of maternal parenting stress in Korean families: Children's executive function and school adjustment	6
Infants follow the gaze of same‐age peers, young children, and adults	6
A Latent Class Analysis Predicting STEM Career Interest and Perceptions of Barriers	6
Parental Warmth and Emotion Reactivity in the Brain: Differences by Assigned Sex	6
“Like Two Musketeers”: Socialization beliefs about toddler's friendships among Dominican, Mexican, and African American mothers	5
Social Cognitive Skills in African American Youth: Parental Cognitive Restructuring and Youth Support Seeking	5
Supporting Early Social‐Emotional Competencies Through Reading and Play: Findings From an RCT of the Tiered Smart Beginnings Program	5
Adaptation and validation of the French version of empathy questionnaire in preschoolers	5
Does Theory of Mind Predict Social Withdrawal in 4–5‐Year‐Old Children? The Moderating Role of Emotion Contagion	5
Earlier false belief understanding predicts later lie‐telling behavior in preschool children, but not vice versa	5
Hostile Caregiving, ADHD Symptoms, and Child Behavior	5
Ingroup and outgroup preference and rejection among young children of different ethnic groups in the Netherlands	5
Metamotivational Beliefs in Middle Childhood: Evaluating Children's Understanding of Task‐Motivation Fit	5
Family alliance and infants’ vagal tone: The mediating role of infants’ reactions to unadjusted parental behaviors	5
Parental Threat Perception and Hyper‐Parenting as Potential Risk Factors for Adolescents’ Test Anxiety	5
Longitudinal associations between coping and peer victimization: Moderation by gender and initial peer victimization	5
“Spilling the tea” on generation Z social media use and body image	4
Linguistic but not minimal group membership modulates spontaneous level‐2 perspective interference in 8‐year‐old children	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
The effect of different types of social norms on children's sharing behavior: The roles of parents, teachers, and peers	4
From Mother–Child Attachment Security in Toddlerhood to Moral Reasoning in Adolescence: The Moderating Role of Child Temperamental Fearfulness	4
Virtual reality training to improve socio‐emotional functioning in adolescents with developmental language disorders: A multiple baseline effectiveness study	4
How Family Assets and Debts Relate to Children's Achievement and Behavior Problems Across Development	4
Age‐related differences in reasoning about the acceptability of eating animals	4
Same gender typicality, risky technology use, and disordered eating among adolescents	4
Differential Susceptibility to Friendship Quality: The Role of Need for Approval	4
Early intergroup coalition: Toddlers attribute fair distributions to Black rather than White distributors	4
Longitudinal associations between pet relationship quality and socio‐emotional functioning in early adolescence	4
White Italian Parents’ Ethnic‐Racial Socialization and Young Children's Prosocial Behavior Toward Outgroup Peers	4
Science resource inequalities viewed as less wrong when girls are disadvantaged	4
Preschoolers’ responses to prosocial opportunities during naturalistic interactions with peers: A cross‐cultural comparison	4
How children tell a (prosocial) lie from an (ironic) joke: The role of shared knowledge	4
Long‐term implications of childhood and adolescent popularity for social behavior and status in emerging adulthood	3
How Should We Treat Farmed Animals? Adolescents Are More Speciesist Than Adults	3
Paternal activation parenting and growth in children's inhibitory control across early childhood	3
Parent Emotion Socialization Framework During Early Childhood in Eastern Cultures	3
An Observational Study of Parents Reading a Storybook About Bullying to Their Young Child: Are Bystander Responses Discussed?	3
Siblings in lockdown: International evidence for birth order effects on child adjustment in the Covid19 pandemic	3
A 6‐year longitudinal exploration of diversity in ethnically/racially minoritized children's early peer circles	3

Social Development	3
Making “fast friends” online in middle childhood and early adolescence	3
Rejection or Tolerance of Bullies: The Roles of Descriptive, Injunctive, and Popularity Norms	3
The effect of social inhibition on preschoolers' behavior problems: The moderating role of maternal parenting styles	3
The Role of Caregiver Attachment in Vicarious Fear Learning in Children	3
“Children Understand More at that Age”: African American, Mexican, Dominican, and Chinese Heritage US Mothers’ Conceptions of Race Readiness	3
Dimensional model of socioemotional learning built on a large‐scale sample of Chilean students	3
Adolescents’ and Their Friends’ Coping Strategies: Implications for Behaviors and Subjective Experiences During Problem Talk	3
Social Development	3
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
Comparing methods of social preference assessment in childhood	3
Mother‐child bidirectional influences in the development of concern for others: Disentangling positive parenting in two predominantly white, North American Samples	3
Developmental deviations in happy victimization across early childhood predict behavioral adjustment in middle childhood	3
A Cross‐Cultural Study of Different Types of Shyness: Associations With Depression and Aggression in Canadian and Chinese Children	3
Little Scientists & Social Apprentices: Active Word Learning in Dynamic Social Contexts Using a Transparent Dyadic Interaction Platform	3
Using Language to Test Developmental Differences in Attitudes Toward Solitude in Adolescents and Emerging Adults	3
Early‐Life Antecedents of Distrust and Social Isolation in Adolescence: A Large‐Scale, Exploratory Analysis of the UK's Millennium Cohort Study	3