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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Social Development	21
Chinese Parents’ Understanding and Socialization of Gratitude	20
Children's Theory of Mind and Family Socioeconomic Status: What Can Different Approaches and Contexts Tell Us About the Same Construct?	19
Development and validation of the Dutch Social Attunement Questionnaire (SAQ)	19
Maternal caregiving, prosocial behavior, and self‐esteem in middle childhood	19
Predicting children's internalizing symptoms across development from early emotional reactivity	18
Trajectories of adolescents’ depressive symptoms surrounding the transition to vocational education	17
Adolescents’ moral reasoning when honesty and loyalty collide	17
“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	17
Adolescents’ and emerging adults’ reminisces about emotions in the context of disclosing, concealing, and lying to parents	16
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Social Development	16
Imaginary athletes: Prevalence, forms, and developmental functions	14
The role of between‐group competition in children's within‐group merit‐based resource allocation	14
Children's interpretations of parental responses to children's negative emotions in Chinese urban and rural communities	14
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
Children's and adolescents’ evaluations of wealth‐related STEM inequality	10
A comparison of models for inferring longitudinal reciprocal relationships between constructs: A case example with internalizing and externalizing problems	10
Preschoolers' Gender Identification Rigidity Relates to Their Gender‐Typed Predictions for Others	9
Capacity for social contingency detection continues to develop across adolescence	9
Adolescent intergroup connections and their developmental benefits: Exploring contributions from social network analysis	9
Parental warmth and guilt induction: Associations with prosocial behaviors and the mediating role of values in Chinese adolescents	9
Theory of mind, gender, gains in friendships versus peer acceptance and anxious solitude from middle childhood through early adolescence	9
Gender essentialism predicts prejudice against gender nonconformity in two cultural contexts	9

Infants follow the gaze of same‐age peers, young children, and adults	8
Mr Predator and Mrs Prey: Gender Stereotypes in Children's Films Correlate With Explicit and Implicit Gender Stereotyping	8
A Latent Class Analysis Predicting STEM Career Interest and Perceptions of Barriers	8
When does ownership matter? Parents’ reasoning about children's conflicts over possessions	8
Parenting, young children's behavioral self‐regulation and the quality of their peer relationships	8
Executive Functioning Across the Transition to Kindergarten: Links With Social and Academic Outcomes in Early Childhood	8
Longitudinal trajectories of maternal parenting stress in Korean families: Children's executive function and school adjustment	8
How do early family systems predict emotion recognition in middle childhood?	7
Retrospective accounts of first exposure to minoritized sexual and gender identities	7
Social goals and bullying: Examining the moderating role of self‐perceived popularity, social status insecurity and classroom variability in popularity	7
Latine children's attributions of cultural and structural discrimination and the role of neighborhood context	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
Dimensions of parenting during infancy: Testing a latent bifactor model	6
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Academic development and disparities in linguistically diverse middle school classrooms: The role of social network equality and linguistic integration	6
Prosocial behaviour between siblings exposed to intimate partner violence	6
Social Cognitive Skills in African American Youth: Parental Cognitive Restructuring and Youth Support Seeking	6
How being observed influences preschoolers’ emotions following (less) deserving help	6
Longitudinal associations between coping and peer victimization: Moderation by gender and initial peer victimization	5
Ingroup and outgroup preference and rejection among young children of different ethnic groups in the Netherlands	5
Earlier false belief understanding predicts later lie‐telling behavior in preschool children, but not vice versa	5
How dislike and bullying co‐develop: A longitudinal study of negative relationships among children	5
Family alliance and infants’ vagal tone: The mediating role of infants’ reactions to unadjusted parental behaviors	5
Same gender typicality, risky technology use, and disordered eating among adolescents	5
Two forms of mother–child reciprocity and their links to children's cooperativeness	5
Parental play supportiveness and kindergartners’ peer problems: Children's playfulness as a potential mediator	5
Adaptation and validation of the French version of empathy questionnaire in preschoolers	5
“Like Two Musketeers”: Socialization beliefs about toddler's friendships among Dominican, Mexican, and African American mothers	5
Linguistic but not minimal group membership modulates spontaneous level‐2 perspective interference in 8‐year‐old children	4
Longitudinal bidirectionality of emotion knowledge and inhibitory control in low‐income children using cross‐lagged panels	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
Differential Susceptibility to Friendship Quality: The Role of Need for Approval	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
Empathy in preschool Portuguese children: Validation of the Empathy Questionnaire (EmQue)	4
Early intergroup coalition: Toddlers attribute fair distributions to Black rather than White distributors	4
Preschoolers’ responses to prosocial opportunities during naturalistic interactions with peers: A cross‐cultural comparison	4
Science resource inequalities viewed as less wrong when girls are disadvantaged	4
Age‐related differences in reasoning about the acceptability of eating animals	4
Cultural variation in the early development of initiative in children's prosocial helping	4
“Spilling the tea” on generation Z social media use and body image	4
Longitudinal associations between pet relationship quality and socio‐emotional functioning in early adolescence	4
Virtual reality training to improve socio‐emotional functioning in adolescents with developmental language disorders: A multiple baseline effectiveness study	3
Long‐term implications of childhood and adolescent popularity for social behavior and status in emerging adulthood	3
Toddler exuberance as an influence on positive social behavior in a high‐intensity context in middle childhood	3
How Should We Treat Farmed Animals? Adolescents Are More Speciesist Than Adults	3
Rejection or Tolerance of Bullies: The Roles of Descriptive, Injunctive, and Popularity Norms	3
Child temperamental negative affectivity moderates the relation between interparental conflict and child cortisol recovery	3
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A 6‐year longitudinal exploration of diversity in ethnically/racially minoritized children's early peer circles	3
Siblings in lockdown: International evidence for birth order effects on child adjustment in the Covid19 pandemic	3
Parental affective personality and children's self‐reported internalising and externalising behaviour	3
Social intelligence as moderator in the relation between narcissism and aggression in at‐risk adolescents	3
The effect of social inhibition on preschoolers' behavior problems: The moderating role of maternal parenting styles	3
Paternal activation parenting and growth in children's inhibitory control across early childhood	3
Social Development	3
Children's inductive inferences about individuals with gender category uncertainty	3
Systematic Review and Meta‐Analyses Reveal no Gender Difference in Neonatal Social Perception	3
Spanish validation of the Emotion Regulation Checklist (ERC) in preschool and elementary children: Relationship with emotion knowledge	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
Issue Information	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
Making “fast friends” online in middle childhood and early adolescence	3
Peers’ emotionality and children's academic achievement in second grade: Testing the moderating role of children's behavioral self‐regulation	3
Using wearable sensors to explore schoolyard interactions of mainstreamed deaf and hard‐of‐hearing preadolescents	3
Parent‐ and teacher‐rated emotion regulation strategies in relation to preschoolers’ attachment representations: A longitudinal perspective	3
Comparing methods of social preference assessment in childhood	3
Social Development	3
Developmental deviations in happy victimization across early childhood predict behavioral adjustment in middle childhood	3