Infant and Child Development

Papers
(The median citation count of Infant and Child Development is 1. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
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Children's preferences of the colour composition of art paintings76
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Understanding the effects of rhythmic coordination on children's prosocial behaviours57
Alternative perspectives: Relations between belief reasoning and ambiguous figure perception in bilingual children53
Socialization of children's experience and expression of pride48
Susceptibility to prosocial and antisocial influence in adolescence following mindfulness training41
Measuring morality in infancy: A scoping methodological review36
Hand preference trajectories as predictors of language outcomes above and beyond SES: Infant patterns explain more variance than toddler patterns at 5 years of age36
Open science and metascience in developmental psychology: Introduction to the special issue29
Is parent personality associated with adolescent outcomes for their child? A response surface analysis approach28
Bayesian sample size planning for developmental studies25
A person‐centered approach in developmental science: Why this is the future and how to get there20
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How do children answer questions from a physically present humanoid robot?14
Comparison of U.S. and Tajik infants' time in containment devices14
Infant placement and language exposure in daily life14
An illustration‐based developmental motor screening questionnaire for young children: Development and a Rasch analysis13
Goldilocks and the home mathematics environment: Parents' rate activities ‘too easy,’ ‘just right,’ or ‘too hard’ across early development13
The characteristics of Chinese anxiously withdrawn children's friendships: Quantity, quality, and protecting against loneliness13
Understanding children's prosocial behaviour and classroom affiliative relationships: A social network analysis12
Analysing infant data at the group‐ or individual‐level: The impact of measurement error on sophisticated analyses11
Contributions of executive function to spatial thinking in young children10
The relationship between oral language and storytelling prosody in preschool children10
The cost–benefit trade‐off in young children's overimitation behaviour10
Examining the female‐talker default in experimental language acquisition research10
Does surgency moderate the relationship between parenting and children's aggression in middle childhood?10
Evidence of the validity of the child self‐regulation & behaviour questionnaire for the Brazilian context9
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Valid points and looks: Reliability and validity go hand‐in‐hand when improving infant methods9
Chinese child unsociability, maternal maladaptive parenting, and peer exclusion among preschoolers: A cross‐lagged model9
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Social support and end‐of‐semester depression, burnout, and adjustment in students making the transition to university8
Mother–infant shared book reading in the first year of life8
Prosocial development throughout the toddlerhood: A person‐centred approach8
The impact of theory of mind and executive function on math and reading abilities: A longitudinal study7
Preterm‐born children's development: A bioecological perspective7
Pre‐K attendance and social development: The moderating role of kindergarten classroom experiences7
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Shyness and social–emotional development among Chinese children: A systematic review and meta‐analysis7
Association between transient financial stress during early childhood and pre‐school cognitive and socioemotional development7
Learning in Dos Idiomas: The Impact of Codeswitching on Children's Noun and Verb Learning6
We need to talk about validity – A commentary on “Six solutions for more reliable infant research” from the viewpoint of an early executive functions researcher6
Behavioural Interventions for Problematic Infant Sleeping and Cry/Fuss Behaviour: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analyses6
Genetic syndromes, neuroconstuctivism and replicable research; challenges and future directions6
Yucatec Maya mothers' ethnotheories about learning to help at home6
Socialisation of Emotion Regulation in Preschool Classrooms: How Do Peers Matter?6
The affective, cognitive, and physiological effects of implementing antecedent‐focused emotion regulation strategies in childhood5
Developmental psychologists should care about measurement precision5
An evaluation of the psychometric properties of the strengths and difficulties scale in Turkey: Implications for other non‐WEIRD countries5
The myth of normative development5
Children presume confident informants will be accurate (until proven otherwise)5
Effects of maternal picture book knowledge on language development of 15‐month olds5
Individual differences in preschoolers' spatial thinking: Comprehension of dimensional adjectives and their relation to children's performance on non‐verbal spatial tasks5
Towards a Haudenosaunee developmental science: Perspectives from the Two Row Wampum5
Coparenting conflict moderates the association between maternal prenatal depressive symptoms and infant regulatory capacity5
Factors influencing kindergarten Families' perceptions of home–school interactions5
Six solutions for more reliable infant research5
Prevalence, risk and protective factors of substance use amongst adolescents living in peri‐urban communities in Abuja, Nigeria5
Biomarker adoption in developmental science: A data‐driven modelling of trends from 90 biomarkers across 20 years5
COVID‐19 pandemic impacts on kindergarteners' mental health: A qualitative study of perspectives of U.S. mothers with low income4
Differential cognitive correlates in processing symbolic and situational mathematics4
Caregiver Beliefs About Childhood Development and Schooling Outcomes: A Qualitative Study in Mahikeng, South Africa4
Methods Used to Assess Early Mathematical Skills in 2‐Year‐Olds: A Review of the Literature4
The role of interest in young children's retention of words4
Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act, family care plans and infants with prenatal substance exposure: Theoretical framework and directions for future research4
Longitudinal associations between attachment representations coded in the adult attachment interview in late adolescence and perceptions of romantic relationship adjustment in adulthood4
Adolescent loneliness, stress and depressive symptoms during the COVID‐19 pandemic: The protective role of friends4
An investigation of children's empathic dispositions and behaviours across seven countries4
Best practices for addressing missing data through multiple imputation4
Thinking About the Birth Father: Loss, Longing, Ambivalence, and Indifference Among Adopted Adolescents With Lesbian Mothers4
Direct effects of visual skills and working memory on Chinese character reading in young children4
Differences in how mothers and fathers support children playfulness4
Into the unknown: Maternal responsiveness influences young children's support‐giving expectations of fathers but not unfamiliar others4
Beliefs, practices and support needs of preschool teachers toward shy‐withdrawn behaviours4
Beyond bias to Western participants, authors, and editors in developmental science4
Fulfilling the promise of applied developmental science: Is it time to reconsider our approach?4
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Black‐Asian solidarity through collective racial socialization4
Who is a thinker? With age, higher SES American children increasingly associate social status with divisions in labour4
Why most psychological research findings are not even wrong3
Can we predict non‐response in developmental tasks? Assessing the longitudinal relation between toddlers' non‐response and early academic skills3
Evaluating the utility and validity of a discrimination‐specific measure of shift‐&‐persist coping3
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Predictors of child student engagement in elementary school: A mixed‐methods study exploring the role of externalising problems3
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Using insights from personality dynamics to move developmental metatheory forward: Integrating insights from relational developmental systems metatheory and whole trait theory3
Exploring profiles of hormone exposure: Associations with cognition in a population‐based cohort of early adolescents3
The dynamic functions of social cues during children's word learning3
Mutual identification promotes children's generosity3
Performance during object retrieval tasks in young children with and without Down syndrome: A pilot study3
Optimal input for language development: Tailor nurture to nature3
Digital diet: A 21st century approach to understanding digital technologies and development3
Qualitative and quantitative measures of joint attention development in the first year of life: A scoping review3
Prescriptions from history: A case for replications that control for leading3
The self‐concept questionnaire offers a multidimensional, developmentally sensitive measure of the capacity for self‐reflection in young children3
Grounding understanding of the home numeracy environment: Within‐group variation in Latine families3
Reliability and replicability in infant research: A commentary on Byers‐Heinlein et al. (2021)3
Adaptation of the Missing Scan Task to a touchscreen format for assessing working memory capacity in children3
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Evaluating risk factors in relation to preschool social–emotional skills using a person‐centred approach3
Infancy researchers need to change the way they develop their measures: A comment on Byers‐Heinlein et al. (2021)3
The seventh solution: A commentary on Byers‐Heinlein, Bergmann, and Savalei (2022)2
Suspected neuropsychomotor developmental delay in the first 2 years of life in a birth cohort in the Brazilian Amazon: Incidence, persistence and risk factors2
Childhood fantasy play relates to adult socio‐emotional competence2
U.S. and Chinese preschoolers' compliance and regulatory behaviours in two challenging contexts2
Are dominant figures more trustworthy? Examining the relation between parental authoritarianism and children's trust preferences in the United States and China2
The ‘scars’ left on children by exclusion, but re‐inclusion may ‘heal up’2
Caregiver perspectives of risk and protective factors influencing early childhood development in low‐income, urban settings: A social ecological perspective2
Crisis and bias: Exploring ethnic prejudice among Chinese‐Dutch children before and during the COVID‐19 pandemic2
Spanking and parental verbal aggression during early childhood: Association with later academic achievement and the mediating role of executive function2
Moulding environmental contexts to optimise neurodiverse executive function performance and development: A goodness‐of‐fit account2
Contributions of mothers' and fathers' shared book reading with infants at 9 months to language skills at 18 months in ethnically and socioeconomically diverse families2
Longitudinal assessment of social cognition in infants born preterm using eye‐tracking and parent–child play2
No data left behind2
Commentary on six solutions: Moving forward with measurement in mind2
The longitudinal association between COVID‐19 stressors and adolescents' diurnal cortisol: The mediating effects of parental anxiety and behaviours2
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Attachment security to mothers and fathers: A meta‐analysis on mean‐level differences and correlations of behavioural measures2
Classroom ethnic diversity, teacher support, and peer victimization: Evidence from four European countries2
The health costs associated with “looking forward to success”: Educational expectations and children's health2
Gender‐based reasoning about novel toys: The role of child and parental factors2
Children's evaluative judgements of conformers and nonconformers2
Additive and synergistic relations of early mother–child and caregiver–child interactions and socioeconomic outcomes in adulthood2
Exploring the cognitive development of children born to adolescent mothers in South Africa2
Experimenter identity: An invisible, lurking variable in developmental research2
Utilising Non‐Nutritive Sucking in Developmental Language Research: Past, Current and Future2
‘But what is the mechanism?’: Demystifying the ever elusive ‘developmental mechanism’2
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Advancing credibility in longitudinal research by implementing open science practices: Opportunities, practical examples, and challenges2
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The developing of executive function skills through culturally organized autonomy and helping2
No age differences? No problem2
Family structure and material hardship: Child and adolescent pathways to health and well‐being2
Testing prosodic development with the Headturn Preference Procedure: A test‐retest reliability study2
Youth experiences of racism and family ethnic‐racial socialization in Germany: What we (don't) know2
Piloting a battery to evaluate parasympathetic reactivity and externalizing behaviours during early childhood in autism spectrum disorder2
Fear not of cognition in context2
Longer looking to agent with false belief at 7 but not 6 months of age2
Do toddlers prefer that agents help similar or dissimilar needy agents?1
Black American adolescent's efficacy in the face of discrimination1
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The feasibility of remote measurement of infant sleep and motor development1
Understanding the costs and benefits of politics among adolescents within a sociocultural context1
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Father–newborn vocal interaction: A contribution to the theory of innate intersubjectivity1
Mother‐Infant Covariation of Positive and Negative Emotions Across the Day1
Toddlers' self‐regulation development from 14 to 26 months: The unique role of paternal discipline1
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Pre‐K attendance and social development: The moderating role of kindergarten classroom experiences1
Sharing is caring for developmental psychology1
Caregiver executive functions are associated with infant visual working memory1
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The link between early iconic gesture comprehension and receptive language1
Developmental changes in infants' physical contact with others across the transitional period from crawling to walking1
Perspectives on the impact of generative AI on early‐childhood development and education1
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Examining the generalisability of the simple view of reading comprehension for emergent bilinguals1
The consideration of cost in evaluations of moral praiseworthiness among Chinese children1
Parents' perceptions of the quality of infant sleep behaviours and practices: A qualitative systematic review1
Open science considerations for descriptive research in developmental science1
Early childhood education and care (ECEC) during COVID‐19 boosts growth in language and executive function1
Maternal distress and body mass index in preschoolers living in families experiencing low‐income1
Use them or lose them: Are manipulatives needed to assess numeracy and geometry performance in preschool?1
Great expectations: The construct validity of the violation‐of‐expectation method for studying infant cognition1
In search of a measure to investigate mental performance among children: Development of the mental speed test1
Associated biological and environmental factors of impaired executive function in preschool‐aged children: A population‐based study1
Infants in Dutch daycare: Exploring fine‐grained dimensions of temperament1
Should infant psychology rely on the violation‐of‐expectation method? Not anymore1
Preschool children's high‐frequency heart rate variability during low and high emotional challenge in relation to their self‐regulation1
Identifying developmental adaptations to early‐life stress1
Toddlers' emotion vocalizations during peer conflicts and contingent teacher interventions in early care and education settings1
A balanced digital diet for under 5s: A commentary on Orben (2021)1
Early risk for child externalising symptoms: Examining genetic, prenatal, temperamental and parental influences1
Reading to bilingual preschoolers: An experimental study of two book formats1
Who Am I? A Longitudinal Investigation of the Multidimensional Self1
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Temperament ratings by parents and teachers as predictors of non‐verbal ability in Argentinean preschoolers1
Five‐Year‐Old Children Identify Emotions in Music Along Valence and Intensity Dimensions1
Examining the indirect role of perceived normativeness in the association between collectivistic values and psychological control of Turkish mothers1
Gender attitudes and gender discrimination among ethnically and geographically diverse young children1
Parental Math Beliefs and Home Math Experiences of Preschoolers in Chile: A Qualitative Study1
Proving and improving the reliability of infant research with neuroadaptive Bayesian optimization1
Peer groups, academic achievement and the behaviour of elementary school‐aged children: A strength‐based perspective1
Developmental data science: How machine learning can advance theory formation in Developmental Psychology1
Broadening perspectives: The case for ecologically valid infant research1
The relation between social acceptance and school well‐being in early childhood1
Adapting open science and pre‐registration to longitudinal research1
It matters how you start: Early numeracy mastery predicts high school math course‐taking and college attendance1
Maternal sensitivity as a predictor of change in respiratory sinus arrhythmia activity from infancy to toddlerhood1
Beyond diagnosis: Prepubescent gender expansive children on the margins of clinical measures1
Development and validation of a metacognitive assessment tool for Turkish preschool children: A test for 48–66 months‐old1
Teachers matter in early childhood: The relation between teacher behaviours and executive function development in toddlerhood1
Inhibitory control and problem solving in early childhood: Exploring the burdens and benefits of high self‐control1
The Children's Worlds Psychological Well‐Being Scale in Children Aged 10 and 12 From 30 Countries: Analysis From Classical Test Theory and Item Response Theory1
Phonological–semantic flexibility and its role in reading for Chinese kindergarten children1
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