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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

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	70
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
Development and validation of the Dutch Social Attunement Questionnaire (SAQ)	15
Children's Perspective on Parental Lying and Its Effect on Trust: Co‐Creation of an Instrument and Pilot Results	15
Adolescents’ moral reasoning when honesty and loyalty collide	15
Predicting children's internalizing symptoms across development from early emotional reactivity	14
Chinese Parents’ Understanding and Socialization of Gratitude	14
Real‐Time Contingencies of Emotion Socialization During Parent–Adolescent Conflicts	13
Trajectories of adolescents’ depressive symptoms surrounding the transition to vocational education	12
Using a Continuous Measure of Child Gender Identity to Explore Mother–Child Agreement	11
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
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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
Gender essentialism predicts prejudice against gender nonconformity in two cultural contexts	10
The role of between‐group competition in children's within‐group merit‐based resource allocation	10
A comparison of models for inferring longitudinal reciprocal relationships between constructs: A case example with internalizing and externalizing problems	10
Social Development	10
Imaginary athletes: Prevalence, forms, and developmental functions	9
Chaos, Distress and Crowding in the Home: Disentangling Associations With Child Behaviour	9
Trajectories of team and individual sports participation in childhood and links with internalizing problems	9
“We Might Get What We Need, but Not What We Want”: Children's and Adolescents' Perceptions of Subjective Socioeconomic Status in Türkiye	9
Preschoolers' Gender Identification Rigidity Relates to Their Gender‐Typed Predictions for Others	8

Ethno‐Religious Socialization Among Majority and Minority Group Children in a Post‐Conflict Society	8
Mr Predator and Mrs Prey: Gender Stereotypes in Children's Films Correlate With Explicit and Implicit Gender Stereotyping	8
Theory of mind, gender, gains in friendships versus peer acceptance and anxious solitude from middle childhood through early adolescence	8
A Latent Class Analysis Predicting STEM Career Interest and Perceptions of Barriers	7
Latine children's attributions of cultural and structural discrimination and the role of neighborhood context	7
Dimensions of parenting during infancy: Testing a latent bifactor model	7
Retrospective accounts of first exposure to minoritized sexual and gender identities	7
Longitudinal trajectories of maternal parenting stress in Korean families: Children's executive function and school adjustment	7
Executive Functioning Across the Transition to Kindergarten: Links With Social and Academic Outcomes in Early Childhood	7
Parental warmth and guilt induction: Associations with prosocial behaviors and the mediating role of values in Chinese adolescents	7
Parental Warmth and Emotion Reactivity in the Brain: Differences by Assigned Sex	6
Does Theory of Mind Predict Social Withdrawal in 4–5‐Year‐Old Children? The Moderating Role of Emotion Contagion	6
Firstborn Behavioral Problems Predict Later Sibling Relationship Quality: The Moderating Role of Maternal Sensitivity and Mind‐Mindedness	6
Supporting Early Social‐Emotional Competencies Through Reading and Play: Findings From an RCT of the Tiered Smart Beginnings Program	6
Infants follow the gaze of same‐age peers, young children, and adults	6
Metamotivational Beliefs in Middle Childhood: Evaluating Children's Understanding of Task‐Motivation Fit	6
Social Cognitive Skills in African American Youth: Parental Cognitive Restructuring and Youth Support Seeking	5
Longitudinal associations between coping and peer victimization: Moderation by gender and initial peer victimization	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
Family alliance and infants’ vagal tone: The mediating role of infants’ reactions to unadjusted parental behaviors	5
Hostile Caregiving, ADHD Symptoms, and Child Behavior	5
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“Like Two Musketeers”: Socialization beliefs about toddler's friendships among Dominican, Mexican, and African American mothers	5
Parental Threat Perception and Hyper‐Parenting as Potential Risk Factors for Adolescents’ Test Anxiety	5
“Spilling the tea” on generation Z social media use and body image	4
Children's inductive inferences about individuals with gender category uncertainty	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
Age‐related differences in reasoning about the acceptability of eating animals	4
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
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
Same gender typicality, risky technology use, and disordered eating among adolescents	4
How Family Assets and Debts Relate to Children's Achievement and Behavior Problems Across Development	4
Early intergroup coalition: Toddlers attribute fair distributions to Black rather than White distributors	4
From Mother–Child Attachment Security in Toddlerhood to Moral Reasoning in Adolescence: The Moderating Role of Child Temperamental Fearfulness	4
Ingroup and outgroup preference and rejection among young children of different ethnic groups in the Netherlands	4
Differential Susceptibility to Friendship Quality: The Role of Need for Approval	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
Social intelligence as moderator in the relation between narcissism and aggression in at‐risk adolescents	3
Virtual reality training to improve socio‐emotional functioning in adolescents with developmental language disorders: A multiple baseline effectiveness study	3
Peers’ emotionality and children's academic achievement in second grade: Testing the moderating role of children's behavioral self‐regulation	3
Developmental deviations in happy victimization across early childhood predict behavioral adjustment in middle childhood	3
Early‐Life Antecedents of Distrust and Social Isolation in Adolescence: A Large‐Scale, Exploratory Analysis of the UK's Millennium Cohort Study	3
An Observational Study of Parents Reading a Storybook About Bullying to Their Young Child: Are Bystander Responses Discussed?	3
Using Language to Test Developmental Differences in Attitudes Toward Solitude in Adolescents and Emerging Adults	3
Little Scientists & Social Apprentices: Active Word Learning in Dynamic Social Contexts Using a Transparent Dyadic Interaction Platform	3

Comparing methods of social preference assessment in childhood	3
How Should We Treat Farmed Animals? Adolescents Are More Speciesist Than Adults	3
A 6‐year longitudinal exploration of diversity in ethnically/racially minoritized children's early peer circles	3
“Children Understand More at that Age”: African American, Mexican, Dominican, and Chinese Heritage US Mothers’ Conceptions of Race Readiness	3
Making “fast friends” online in middle childhood and early adolescence	3
Social Development	3
The Role of Caregiver Attachment in Vicarious Fear Learning in Children	3
Mother‐child bidirectional influences in the development of concern for others: Disentangling positive parenting in two predominantly white, North American Samples	3
Long‐term implications of childhood and adolescent popularity for social behavior and status in emerging adulthood	3
The effect of social inhibition on preschoolers' behavior problems: The moderating role of maternal parenting styles	3
Social Development	3
Rejection or Tolerance of Bullies: The Roles of Descriptive, Injunctive, and Popularity Norms	3
Using wearable sensors to explore schoolyard interactions of mainstreamed deaf and hard‐of‐hearing preadolescents	3
Paternal activation parenting and growth in children's inhibitory control across early childhood	3
Dimensional model of socioemotional learning built on a large‐scale sample of Chilean students	3
Siblings in lockdown: International evidence for birth order effects on child adjustment in the Covid19 pandemic	3