Child Development

Papers
(The median citation count of Child 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Linking Quality and Quantity of Parental Linguistic Input to Child Language Skills: A Meta‐Analysis113
Children’s screen and problematic media use in the United States before and during the COVID‐19 pandemic64
Paternal Sensitivity and Children’s Cognitive and Socioemotional Outcomes: A Meta‐Analytic Review64
The state of evidence for social and emotional learning: A contemporary meta‐analysis of universal school‐based SEL interventions63
Global estimates of the implications of COVID‐19‐related preprimary school closures for children’s instructional access, development, learning, and economic wellbeing58
The Longitudinal Relationship Between Conversational Turn‐Taking and Vocabulary Growth in Early Language Development57
Corporal Punishment and Elevated Neural Response to Threat in Children48
Parental sensitivity and child behavioral problems: A meta‐analytic review47
A Little Autonomy Support Goes a Long Way: Daily Autonomy‐Supportive Parenting, Child Well‐Being, Parental Need Fulfillment, and Change in Child, Family, and Parent Adjustment Across the Adaptation to47
Can guidance during play enhance children’s learning and development in educational contexts? A systematic review and meta‐analysis44
Infant exuberant object play at home: Immense amounts of time‐distributed, variable practice43
Interpersonal Neural Synchrony During Father–Child Problem Solving: An fNIRS Hyperscanning Study42
Lying and Theory of Mind: A Meta‐Analysis39
The Development of Advanced Theory of Mind in Middle Childhood: A Longitudinal Study From Age 5 to 10 Years39
Longitudinal Trajectories, Social and Individual Antecedents, and Outcomes of Problematic Internet Use Among Late Adolescents39
Child Language Difficulties and Internalizing and Externalizing Symptoms: A Meta‐Analysis38
Family Structure, Family Instability, and Child Psychological Well‐Being in the Context of Migration: Evidence From Sequence Analysis in China34
Early Constraints on the Imagination: The Realism of Young Children34
Skill, Thrill, and Will: The Role of Metacognition, Interest, and Self‐Control in Predicting Student Engagement in Mathematics Learning Over Time33
Developmental Relations Between Home Literacy Environment, Reading Interest, and Reading Skills: Evidence From a 3‐Year Longitudinal Study31
Comparing Automatic and Manual Measures of Parent–Infant Conversational Turns: A Word of Caution30
The impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on child and adolescent development around the world29
The Role of Immigration Background, Intergroup Processes, and Social‐Cognitive Skills in Bystanders’ Responses to Bias‐Based Bullying Toward Immigrants During Adolescence29
Advancing scholarship on anti‐racism within developmental science: Reflections on the special section and recommendations for future research29
School Cultural Socialization and Academic Performance: Examining Ethnic‐Racial Identity Development as a Mediator Among African American Adolescents27
Interrupting the Pathway From Discrimination to Black Adolescents’ Psychosocial Outcomes: The Contribution of Parental Racial Worries and Racial Socialization Competency27
School readiness losses during the COVID‐19 outbreak. A comparison of two cohorts of young children27
Coaching Teachers to Improve Students’ School Readiness Skills: Indirect Effects of Teacher–Student Interaction26
The Grade‐Level and Cumulative Outcomes of Absenteeism26
Why Does Classroom‐Level Victimization Moderate the Association Between Victimization and Depressive Symptoms? The “Healthy Context Paradox” and Two Explanations26
Associations between interpersonal behavior and friendship quality in childhood and adolescence: A meta‐analysis26
Does It Matter How We Speak About Social Kinds? A Large, Preregistered, Online Experimental Study of How Language Shapes the Development of Essentialist Beliefs26
Dialogue with a conversational agent promotes children’s story comprehension via enhancing engagement26
Relations Among Parenting, Culture, and Prosocial Behaviors in U.S. Mexican Youth: An Integrative Socialization Approach26
Development of Math Attitudes and Math Self‐Concepts: Gender Differences, Implicit–Explicit Dissociations, and Relations to Math Achievement26
Is Skill Type the Key to the PreK Fadeout Puzzle? Differential Associations Between Enrollment in PreK and Constrained and Unconstrained Skills Across Kindergarten25
Trajectories of perinatal depressive symptoms in the context of the COVID‐19 pandemic25
“So, like, it’s all a mix of one”: Intersecting contexts of adolescents’ ethnic‐racial socialization24
A systematic review and Bayesian meta‐analysis of the development of turn taking in adult–child vocal interactions24
Hidden talents in context: Cognitive performance with abstract versus ecological stimuli among adversity‐exposed youth23
Why Are Children So Distractible? Development of Attention and Motor Control From Childhood to Adulthood23
Here for You: Attachment and the Growth of Empathic Support for Friends in Adolescence23
When friendships surpass parental relationships as predictors of long‐term outcomes: Adolescent relationship qualities and adult psychosocial functioning22
Understanding patterns of food insecurity and family well‐being amid the COVID‐19 pandemic using daily surveys22
Parent–adolescent interaction quality and adolescent affect—An experience sampling study on effect heterogeneity22
Assessment of Autism Symptoms From 6 to 18 Months of Age Using the Autism Observation Scale for Infants in a Prospective High‐Risk Cohort22
Capturing Environmental Dimensions of Adversity and Resources in the Context of Poverty Across Infancy Through Early Adolescence: A Moderated Nonlinear Factor Model22
What’s in a word? Cross‐linguistic influences on Spanish–English and Chinese–English bilingual children’s word reading development22
Associations Between Repeating Patterning, Growing Patterning, and Numerical Ability: A Longitudinal Panel Study in 4‐ to 6‐Year Olds21
A mediation meta‐analysis of the role of maternal responsivity in the association between socioeconomic risk and children’s language21
Children Persist Less When Adults Take Over21
Attachment security predicts adolescents’ prosocial and health protective responses to the COVID‐19 pandemic21
Toward complementarity: Specificity and commonality in social‐emotional development21
Adult outcomes of sustained high‐quality early child care and education: Do they vary by family income?20
Effects of Montessori Education on the Academic, Cognitive, and Social Development of Disadvantaged Preschoolers: A Randomized Controlled Study in the French Public‐School System20
A meta‐analysis of forgiveness education interventions’ effects on forgiveness and anger in children and adolescents20
Profiles of Minority‐Majority Language Proficiency in 5‐Year‐Olds20
Building an assessment of community‐defined social‐emotional competencies from the ground up in Tanzania20
Linking ethnic/racial discrimination to adolescent mental health: Sleep disturbances as an explanatory pathway19
Racial discrimination and the moderating effects of racial and ethnic socialization on the mental health of Asian American youth19
Types of parental psychological control and rural and urban Chinese adolescents’ psychological well‐being and academic functioning19
The role of metacognitive competences in the development of school achievement among gifted adolescents18
Daily Ethnic/Racial Context in Peer Groups: Frequency, Structure, and Implications for Adolescent Outcomes18
“Martin Luther King Fixed It”: Children Making Sense of Racial Identity in a Colorblind Society18
Adrenocortical and psychosocial responses of families in Jordan to the COVID‐19 pandemic17
Leaving a Choice for Others: Children’s Evaluations of Considerate, Socially‐Mindful Actions17
Effects of the COVID‐19 pandemic on caregiver mental health and the child caregiving environment in a low‐resource, rural context17
More Later: Delay of Gratification and Thought About the Future in Children17
A strengths‐based, culturally responsive family intervention improves Latino kindergarteners’ vocabulary and approaches to learning16
Efficacy of a cultural adaptation of theIdentity Projectintervention among adolescents attending multiethnic classrooms in Italy: A randomized controlled trial16
When judging what you know changes what you really know: Soliciting metamemory judgments reactively enhances children’s learning16
Adolescents’ developing awareness of inequality: Racial and ethnic differences in trajectories16
Building a space to dream: Supporting indigenous children's survivance through community‐engaged social and emotional learning16
Parental educational aspirations and children’s academic self‐concept: Disentangling state and trait components on their dynamic interplay16
Does early childhood education help to improve high school outcomes? Results from Tulsa16
The role of harsh parenting practices in early‐ to middle‐childhood socioemotional development: An examination in the Millennium Cohort Study15
Early life stress and behavior problems in early childhood: Investigating the contributions of child temperament and executive functions to resilience15
Princess Power: Longitudinal Associations Between Engagement With Princess Culture in Preschool and Gender Stereotypical Behavior, Body Esteem, and Hegemonic Masculinity in Early Adolescence15
An empirical test of prototype and revisionist models of attachment stability and change from middle childhood to adolescence: A 6‐year longitudinal study15
Antiracism defined as equitable sociocultural interactions in prekindergarten: Classroom racial composition makes a difference15
The Immigrant Paradox in the Problem Behaviors of Youth in the United States: A Meta‐analysis15
Robin Hood or Matthew? Children’s Reasoning About Redistributive Justice in the Context of Economic Inequalities15
Parent–Child Joint Behaviors in Novel Object Play Create High‐Quality Data for Word Learning15
Unpacking the Impacts of a Universal Parenting Program on Child Behavior15
Observed dyadic racial socialization disrupts the association between frequent discriminatory experiences and emotional reactivity among Black adolescents15
“Dancing” Together: Infant–Mother Locomotor Synchrony15
Extracurricular Activities, Screen Media Activity, and Sleep May Be Modifiable Factors Related to Children’s Cognitive Functioning: Evidence From the ABCD Study®15
Early social communication development in infants with autism spectrum disorder15
Language not auditory experience is related to parent‐reported executive functioning in preschool‐aged deaf and hard‐of‐hearing children14
Advancing opportunities for children’s informal STEM learning transfer through parent–child narrative reflection14
Adolescents’ sleep and adjustment: Reciprocal effects14
Interparental conflict as a quadratic predictor of children’s reactivity to interparental conflict and school adjustment: Steeling effects or risk saturation?14
Testing the effectiveness of the Developing Inclusive Youth program: A multisite randomized control trial14
Predicting Middle School Profiles of Algebra Performance Using Fraction Knowledge14
Anti‐racism activism among Black adolescents and emerging adults: Understanding the roles of racism and anticipatory racism‐related stress14
Children’s Knowledge of Symbolic Number in Grades 1 and 2: Integration of Associations14
Do Belonging and Social Exclusion at School Affect Structural Brain Development During Adolescence?13
The Impact of Daily Discrimination on Sleep/Wake Problem Trajectories Among Diverse Adolescents13
Peer Effects on Early Language Development in Dual Language Learners13
The effects of maternal smartphone use on mother–child interaction13
Young children’s ability to make predictions about novel illnesses13
The Kindergarten Hotspot: Literacy Skill Convergence Between Boston Prekindergarten Enrollees and Nonenrollees13
Meeting in school: Cultural diversity approaches of teachers and intergroup contact among ethnic minority and majority adolescents13
Values‐Alignment Messaging Boosts Adolescents’ Motivation to Control Social Media Use13
Tackling Scientific Misconceptions: The Element of Surprise13
War‐related trauma linked to increased sustained attention to threat in children13
Inferior Auditory Time Perception in Children With Motor Difficulties13
More Than Growth Mindset: Individual and Interactive Links Among Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Adolescents’ Ability Mindsets, Metacognitive Skills, and Math Engagement13
Links between shared and unique perspectives of parental psychological control and adolescent emotional problems: A dyadic daily diary study13
Ability‐grouping and problem behavior trajectories in childhood and adolescence: Results from a U.K. population‐based sample12
Are mobile phone ownership and age of acquisition associated with child adjustment? A 5‐year prospective study among low‐income Latinx children12
The Role of Alternative Theories and Anomalous Evidence in Children’s Scientific Belief Revision12
Distinct Profiles of Relationships With Mothers, Fathers, and Best Friends and Social‐Behavioral Functioning in Early Adolescence: A Cross‐Cultural Study12
Children’s and Adults’ Views of Punishment as a Path to Redemption12
Longitudinal change in adolescent hope among recent immigrant Latinx adolescents: Links with adolescent and parent cultural stress, family functioning, emotional well‐being, and behavioral health12
Bidirectional associations between nightly sleep and daily happiness and negative mood in adolescents12
The representation of emotion knowledge across development12
Early life stress and perceived social isolation influence how children use value information to guide behavior12
Parents’ daily involvement in children’s math homework and activities during early elementary school12
Developmental trajectories of sensory patterns from infancy to school age in a community sample and associations with autistic traits12
Connecting inside out: Development of the social brain in infants and toddlers with a focus on myelination as a marker of brain maturation12
Cultural Components of Sex Differences in Color Preference12
In Pursuit of Knowledge: Preschoolers Expect Agents to Weigh Information Gain and Information Cost When Deciding Whether to Explore12
The effectiveness of moral disengagement and social norms as anti‐bullying components: A randomized controlled trial12
Testing the specificity of environmental risk factors for developmental outcomes12
A human rights approach: The right to education in the time of COVID‐1912
Longitudinal Trajectories of Four Domains of Parenting in Relation to Adolescent Age and Puberty in Nine Countries11
The Specificity Principle in Young Dual Language Learners’ English Development11
First and Second Graders Successfully Reason About Ratios With Both Dot Arrays and Arabic Numerals11
Father Absence in Pregnancy or During Childhood and Pubertal Development in Girls and Boys: A Population‐Based Cohort Study11
Early Educators’ Collective Workplace Stress as a Predictor of Professional Development’s Impacts on Children’s Development11
Thinking Counterfactually Supports Children’s Evidence Evaluation in Causal Learning11
Infant vocalizing and phenotypic outcomes in autism: Evidence from the first 2 years11
The association of early life stress with IQ‐achievement discrepancy in children: A population‐based study11
Cross‐Cultural Associations of Four Parenting Behaviors With Child Flourishing: Examining Cultural Specificity and Commonality in Cultural Normativeness and Intergenerational Transmission Processes11
Preschool‐Aged Children Jointly Consider Others’ Emotional Expressions and Prior Knowledge to Decide When to Explore11
Cheating among elementary school children: A machine learning approach11
Talking to talkers: Infants' talk status, but not their gender, is related to language input11
Pubertal Timing and Adolescent Alcohol Use: The Mediating Role of Parental and Peer Influences11
Declining Gaze to Faces in Infants Developing Autism Spectrum Disorder: Evidence From Two Independent Cohorts11
Daily fluctuations in young children’s persistence11
Into the Unknown: Examining Neural Representations of Parent–Adolescent Interactions11
Effects of Reinforcement Learning on Gaze Following of Gaze and Head Direction in Early Infancy: An Interactive Eye‐Tracking Study11
The course of problematic social media use in young adolescents: A latent class growth analysis11
Screen media exposure and young children's vocabulary learning and development: A meta‐analysis11
Dynamic changes in perfectionism dimensions and psychological distress among adolescents assessed before and during the COVID‐19 pandemic11
Developmental Improvements and Persisting Difficulties in Children’s Metacognitive Monitoring and Control Skills: Cross‐Sectional and Longitudinal Perspectives11
The development of place value concepts: Approximation before principles10
Emotional quality of early education programs improves language learning: A within‐child across context design10
Responding to racism at school: Ethnic‐racial socialization and the academic engagement of Black and Latinx youth10
Maternal color‐consciousness is related to more positive and less negative attitudes toward ethnic‐racial outgroups in children in White Dutch families10
Book‐Sharing for Parenting and Child Development in South Africa: A Randomized Controlled Trial10
How children revise their beliefs in light of reasons10
Parental Job Loss and Early Child Development in the Great Recession10
The acquisition of the gender‐brilliance stereotype: Age trajectory, relation to parents' stereotypes, and intersections with race/ethnicity10
Measuring the quality of early childhood education: Associations with children’s development from a national study with the IMCEIC tool in Colombia10
Modeling and Visualizing the Codevelopment of Word and Nonword Reading in Children From First Through Fourth Grade: Informing Developmental Trajectories of Children With Dyslexia10
A meta‐analysis on observed paternal and maternal sensitivity10
Children boost their cognitive performance with a novel offloading technique10
The Very Best of Me: Longitudinal Associations of Perfectionism and Identity Processes in Adolescence10
Language and reading impairments are associated with increased prevalence of non‐right‐handedness10
Paid maternal leave is associated with infant brain function at 3 months of age10
Links between justice sensitivity and moral reasoning, moral emotions, and moral identity in middle childhood9
Are victims of bullying primarily social outcasts? Person‐group dissimilarities in relational, socio‐behavioral, and physical characteristics as predictors of victimization9
Determinants of elementary‐school academic achievement: Component cognitive abilities and memory integration9
Automated detections reveal the social information in the changing infant view9
Fish Oil Supplementation in Pregnancy and Neurodevelopment in Childhood—A Randomized Clinical Trial9
How age and race affect the frequency, timing, and content of conversations about race with children9
Supporting preschoolers’ cognitive development: Short‐ and mid‐term effects of fluid reasoning, visuospatial, and motor training9
Toddlers learn and flexibly apply multiple possibilities9
Temperamental Shyness, Frontal EEG Theta/Beta Ratio, and Social Anxiety in Children9
Toddlers Prefer Adults as Informants: 2‐ and 3‐Year‐Olds’ Use of and Attention to Pointing Gestures From Peer and Adult Partners9
Contributions of bilingual home environment and language proficiency on children’s Spanish–English reading outcomes9
Scaffolding the emergence of infant helping: A longitudinal experiment9
Visual Attention Preference for Intermediate Predictability in Young Children9
Exclusion Expected? Cardiac Slowing Upon Peer Exclusion Links Preschool Parent Representations to School‐Age Peer Relationships9
Take Your Word or Tone for It? European American and Chinese Children’s Attention to Emotional Cues in Speech9
A dynamic systems account of parental self‐regulation processes in the context of challenging child behavior9
Longitudinal Effects of PostDivorce Interparental Conflict on Children’s Mental Health Problems Through Fear of Abandonment: Does Parenting Quality Play a Buffering Role?9
Flexibility in valenced reinforcement learning computations across development9
Memory at Play: Examining Relations Between Episodic and Semantic Memory in a Children’s Museum9
Young Children’s Prosocial Behavior Protects Against Academic Risk in Neighborhoods With Low Socioeconomic Status9
A defensive mindset: A pattern of social information processing that develops early and predicts life course outcomes8
Developmental foundations of physiological dynamics among mother–infant dyads: The role of newborn neurobehavior8
The Development of Attention to Objects and Scenes: From Object‐Biased to Unbiased8
Empirical benchmarks for changes in social and emotional skills over time8
Developmental changes in students' use of dimensional comparisons to form ability self‐concepts in math and verbal domains8
Mothers’ Goals Influence Their Responses to Children’s Performance: An Experimental Study in the United States and Hong Kong8
Gahvora cradling in Tajikistan: Cultural practices and associations with motor development8
“Why do dogs pant?”: Characteristics of parental explanations about science predict children's knowledge8
Cohort differences in the development of civic engagement during adolescence8
Atypical Developmental Trajectories of Early Perception Among School‐Age Children With Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder During a Visual Search Task8
The Predictive Value of Non‐Referential Beat Gestures: Early Use in Parent–Child Interactions Predicts Narrative Abilities at 5 Years of Age8
Investigating the Interrelations Between Systems of Support in 13‐ to 18‐Year‐Old Adolescents: A Network Analysis of Resilience Promoting Systems in a High and Middle‐Income Country8
Relational language influences young children’s number relation skills8
Spatial Ability and Theory of Mind: A Mediating Role of Visual Perspective Taking8
Do chimpanzees reason logically?8
The complex associations between scientific reasoning and advanced theory of mind8
Spatial Metaphor Facilitates Word Learning8
The boss is not always right: Norwegian preschoolers do not selectively endorse the testimony of a novel dominant agent8
Mothers’ Depressive Symptoms and Children’s Internalizing and Externalizing Behaviors: Examining Reciprocal Trait‐State Effects from Age 2 to 158
White children's empathy‐related responding and prosocial behavior toward White and Black children8
Parent socialization and anti‐racist ideology development in White youth: Do peer and parenting contexts matter?8
Language acquisition in a multilingual society: English vocabulary norms and predictors in Singaporean children8
Are there positive effects of having a sibling with special needs? Empathy and prosociality of twins of children with non‐typical development7
Editorial: A Vision of a Fair and Efficient, Diverse and Inclusive, Cumulative Science of Child Development in the Best and Worst of Times7
A Complex Systems Network Approach to Quantifying Peer Effects: Evidence From Ghanaian Preprimary Classrooms7
Social gaze in preterm infants may act as an early indicator of atypical lateralization7
Causal Explanations for Weight Influence Children’s Social Preferences: Biological‐Essentialist Explanations Reduce, and Behavioral Explanations Promote, Preferences for Thin Friends7
Valence bias in metacontrol of decision making in adolescents and young adults7
Young children’s overestimation of performance: A cross‐cultural comparison7
Mini managers: Children strategically divide cognitive labor among collaborators, but with a self‐serving bias7
The future is present in the past: A meta‐analysis on the longitudinal associations of parent–adolescent relationships with peer and romantic relationships7
Do siblings influence one another? Unpacking processes that occur during sibling conflict7
Reading to learn? The co‐development of mathematics and reading during primary school7
Something About the Way You Speak: A Meta‐analysis on Children’s Linguistic‐based Social Preferences7
Children acknowledge physical constraints less when actors behave stereotypically: Gender stereotypes as a case study7
An Illusion of Self‐Sufficiency for Learning About Artifacts in Scaffolded Learners, But Not Observers7
The Roles of Privacy and Trust in Children's Evaluations and Explanations of Digital Tracking7
Religiosity as a moderator of the links between parental psychological control and children's prosociality7
A cultural lens on Yucatec Maya families’ COVID‐19 experiences7
A Developmental Hierarchical‐Integrative Perspective on the Emergence of Self‐Regulation: A Replication and Extension7
Infant Temperament Profiles, Cultural Orientation, and Toddler Behavioral and Physiological Regulation in Mexican‐American Families7
Genetically informed, multilevel analysis of the Flynn Effect across four decades and three WISC versions7
Academic Trajectories of Children in Formal and Informal Kinship Care7
The development of uncertainty monitoring during kindergarten: Change and longitudinal relations with executive function and vocabulary in children from low‐income backgrounds7
Boys Write About Boys: Androcentrism in Children’s Reading Experience and Its Emergence in Children’s Own Writing7
Relations between children's exploration in a children's museum and their reflections about their exploration7
Can 5‐month‐old infants consider the perspective of a novel eyeless agent? New evidence for early mentalistic reasoning6
Input quality and speech perception development in bilingual infants’ first year of life6
Paternal and maternal rejection and Chinese children's internalizing and externalizing problems across the transition to siblinghood: A developmental cascade model of family influence6
Development of complex executive function over childhood: Longitudinal growth curve modeling of performance on the Groton Maze Learning Task6
Teacher Depressive Symptoms and Child Math Achievement in Head Start: The Roles of Family–Teacher Relationships and Approaches to Learning6
Overhearing Brief Negative Messages Has Lasting Effects on Children’s Attitudes Toward Novel Social Groups6
A robot is watching me!: Five‐year‐old children care about their reputation after interaction with a social robot6
Infants’ Preference for Social Interactions Increases from 7 to 13 Months of Age6
Distinct environmental cues trigger spontaneous recall of past events in 3‐ and 4‐year‐old children even after long delays6
Adolescent caregiving success as a predictor of social functioning from ages 13 to 336
Crying in the first 12 months of life: A systematic review and meta‐analysis of cross‐country parent‐reported data and modeling of the “cry curve”6
A Shift in the Direction of the Production Effect in Children Aged 2–6 Years6
Disrupted affective communication characterizes mothers of infants with disorganized but also ambivalent attachments: An Israeli study6
Examining the Effects of Changes in Classroom Quality on Within‐Child Changes in Achievement and Behavioral Outcomes6
Simulating peers: Can puppets simulate peer interactions in studies on children's socio‐cognitive development?6
Deconstructing Cumulative Risk: Poverty and Aspects of Instability Relate Uniquely to Young Children’s Basal Cortisol6
Sleep, Classroom Behavior, and Achievement Among Children of Color in Historically Disinvested Neighborhoods6
Children's developing ability to adjust their beliefs reasonably in light of disagreement6
Putting Mutual Exclusivity in Context: Speaker Race Influences Monolingual and Bilingual Infants’ Word‐Learning Assumptions6
Development of categorical speech perception in Mandarin‐speaking children and adolescents6
Respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) dynamics matter for children's emotion regulation: RSA inertia and instability within a stress task6
Preschool Children Rarely Seek Empirical Data That Could Help Them Complete a Task When Observation and Testimony Conflict6
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