Child Development

Papers
(The median citation count of Child Development is 2. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
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Maturation of consonant perception, but not vowel perception, predicts lexical skills at 12 months77
A Complex Systems Network Approach to Quantifying Peer Effects: Evidence From Ghanaian Preprimary Classrooms68
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Social goals as predictors of children's in vivo emotional responses to social challenges57
Connecting Language Abilities and Social Competence in Children: A Meta‐Analytic Review53
The Longitudinal Relationship Between Conversational Turn‐Taking and Vocabulary Growth in Early Language Development48
Distinct Profiles of Relationships With Mothers, Fathers, and Best Friends and Social‐Behavioral Functioning in Early Adolescence: A Cross‐Cultural Study44
Children seek help based on how others learn43
Applying the PROSPER prevention delivery system with middle schools: Emerging adulthood effects on substance misuse and conduct problem behaviors through 14 years past baseline39
Waste Aversion Reduces Inequity Aversion Among Chinese Children31
Early Adolescents’ Food Selection After Evaluating the Healthiness of Remote Peers’ Food Choices29
Anticipation to Social and Nonsocial Dynamic Cues in Preschool‐Age Children29
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Elementary disruptions? Exploring residential move type, timing, and duration of implications during middle childhood27
Maternal Judgments of Child Numeracy and Reading Ability Predict Gains in Academic Achievement and Interest26
Greasing (small) palms: Early rejection of bribery26
Teacher Depressive Symptoms and Child Math Achievement in Head Start: The Roles of Family–Teacher Relationships and Approaches to Learning26
Can you teach me not to be angry? Relations between temperament and the emotion regulation strategy distraction in 2‐year‐olds26
Developmental associations between risk‐taking and anxiety symptoms across ages 8–12 years26
A Shift in the Direction of the Production Effect in Children Aged 2–6 Years26
Effects of spatial boundaries on episodic memory development26
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Children and adults' intuitions of what people can believe25
Development of literacy skills for Japanese deaf and hard‐of‐hearing children25
Theta power relates to infant object encoding in naturalistic mother‐infant interactions24
Mentalistic and normative frameworks in children's explanations of others' behaviors24
Developmental Improvements and Persisting Difficulties in Children’s Metacognitive Monitoring and Control Skills: Cross‐Sectional and Longitudinal Perspectives23
Do chimpanzees reason logically?23
Antiracism defined as equitable sociocultural interactions in prekindergarten: Classroom racial composition makes a difference22
A Pre‐registered sticky mittens study: active training does not increase reaching and grasping in a swedish context22
Paths to postsecondary education enrollment among adolescents with and without childhood attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD): A longitudinal analysis of symptom and academic trajectories22
Infant Temperament Profiles, Cultural Orientation, and Toddler Behavioral and Physiological Regulation in Mexican‐American Families22
Enjoyment of Chinese and mathematics and school performance in Chinese children and adolescents21
The development of commitment: Attention for intention21
Children's moral evaluations of and behaviors toward people who are curious about religion and science21
Developmental Pathways Between Infant Gestures and Symbolic Actions, and Children’s Communicative Skills at Age 5: Findings From the All Our Families Pregnancy Cohort20
Letter–speech sound integration in typical reading development during the first years of formal education20
Instability, changes, and internal structure of children's attitudes toward mathematics in primary school: A four‐wave investigation20
Effects of homicide timing on test scores: Quasi‐experimental evidence from two cities in Colombia20
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Treating children's aggressive behavior problems using cognitive behavior therapy with virtual reality: A multicenter randomized controlled trial19
Illuminating the landscape of sibling relationship quality: An evidence and gap map19
Building a space to dream: Supporting indigenous children's survivance through community‐engaged social and emotional learning19
Putting Mutual Exclusivity in Context: Speaker Race Influences Monolingual and Bilingual Infants’ Word‐Learning Assumptions18
Tactile training facilitates infants' ability to reach to targets on the body18
Adolescents’ sleep and adjustment: Reciprocal effects18
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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”17
Reading to learn? The co‐development of mathematics and reading during primary school17
Be there on time: Spatial‐temporal regularities guide young children’s attention in dynamic environments17
Peer‐based discrimination and adolescent emotional and sleep health: A daily examination of direct and buffering associations17
Methodological considerations for more robust and reliable developmental science: How historical conventions bias behavioral measurements17
Linking ethnic/racial discrimination to adolescent mental health: Sleep disturbances as an explanatory pathway17
Becoming fictional storytellers: African American children's oral narrative development in early elementary school16
Tackling Scientific Misconceptions: The Element of Surprise16
Children boost their cognitive performance with a novel offloading technique16
More Later: Delay of Gratification and Thought About the Future in Children16
The beneficial effect of sleep on behavioral health problems in youth is disrupted by prenatal cannabis exposure: A causal random forest analysis of Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development data16
Editorial: A Vision of a Fair and Efficient, Diverse and Inclusive, Cumulative Science of Child Development in the Best and Worst of Times16
Gene–environment interplay linking perceived parental supervision and peer drunkenness with Chinese adolescent alcohol initiation16
The impact of perceived emotions on toddlers' word learning16
Children's socio‐moral judgments and behaviors toward peers with and without incarcerated parents16
Development of complex executive function over childhood: Longitudinal growth curve modeling of performance on the Groton Maze Learning Task16
Maladaptive but malleable: Gender‐science stereotypes emerge early but are modifiable by language16
Latent classes of aggression and peer victimization: Measurement invariance and differential item functioning across sex, race‐ethnicity, cohort, and study site15
Quantifying social skill deficits and strengths profiles in autistic youth15
Associations between cross‐racial friendships and children’s social and academic adjustment in racially diverse classrooms15
Concern for mianzi: Relations with adjustment in rural and urban Chinese adolescents15
Testing the effectiveness of the Developing Inclusive Youth program: A multisite randomized control trial15
Dialogue with a conversational agent promotes children’s story comprehension via enhancing engagement14
Heterogeneity in children at risk of math learning difficulties14
Variation in caregivers' references to their toddlers: Child‐directed speech in Vanuatu and Canada14
Links between shared and unique perspectives of parental psychological control and adolescent emotional problems: A dyadic daily diary study14
Development of prosocial behavior and inhibitory control in late childhood: A longitudinal exploration of sex differences and reciprocal relations14
Academic performance and depression in Chinese children: Same‐domain and cross‐domain effects in friendships14
Children strategically conceal selfishness14
Multiple pathways of integration: Acculturative change and associations with school adjustment in immigrant‐origin adolescents14
Cheating and the effect of promises in Indian and German children14
Why Does Classroom‐Level Victimization Moderate the Association Between Victimization and Depressive Symptoms? The “Healthy Context Paradox” and Two Explanations13
Guidance and Considerations When Performing Data‐Validity Checks13
Messaging about descriptive and injunctive norms can promote honesty in young children13
Scaffolding the emergence of infant helping: A longitudinal experiment13
Strengthening parental self‐efficacy and resilience: A within‐subject experimental study with refugee parents of adolescents13
Resting state networks mediate the association between both cardiovascular fitness and gross motor skills with neurocognitive functioning13
Early social communication development in infants with autism spectrum disorder13
Learning apps at home prepare children for school13
Values‐Alignment Messaging Boosts Adolescents’ Motivation to Control Social Media Use13
Does early childhood education help to improve high school outcomes? Results from Tulsa12
Paternal and maternal rejection and Chinese children's internalizing and externalizing problems across the transition to siblinghood: A developmental cascade model of family influence12
Gahvora cradling in Tajikistan: Cultural practices and associations with motor development12
How fairness and dominance guide young children’s bargaining decisions12
Language acquisition in a multilingual society: English vocabulary norms and predictors in Singaporean children12
Is Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch‐up effective for parents with insecure attachment states of mind?12
Adolescent caregiving success as a predictor of social functioning from ages 13 to 3312
Infant vocalizing and phenotypic outcomes in autism: Evidence from the first 2 years12
Development of categorical speech perception in Mandarin‐speaking children and adolescents12
The effectiveness of moral disengagement and social norms as anti‐bullying components: A randomized controlled trial12
Building an assessment of community‐defined social‐emotional competencies from the ground up in Tanzania12
Does having vulnerable friends help vulnerable youth? The co‐evolution of friendships, victimization, and depressive symptoms in Chinese adolescents' social networks12
The effects of maternal smartphone use on mother–child interaction12
Efficacy of a cultural adaptation of theIdentity Projectintervention among adolescents attending multiethnic classrooms in Italy: A randomized controlled trial12
Using ECHO program data to develop a brief measure of caregiver support and cognitive stimulation using the home observation for measurement of the environment‐infant/toddler (HOME11
Children's developing ability to adjust their beliefs reasonably in light of disagreement11
Language development beyond the here‐and‐now: Iconicity and displacement in child‐directed communication11
Developing conceptions of forgiveness across the lifespan11
Child‐directed speech in a large sample of U.S. mothers with low income11
Convergence and divergence of empathic concern and empathic happiness in early childhood: Evidence from young infants and children11
A Developmental Hierarchical‐Integrative Perspective on the Emergence of Self‐Regulation: A Replication and Extension11
Five‐year‐old children value reasons in apologies for belief‐based accidents11
Emotional quality of early education programs improves language learning: A within‐child across context design11
Pointing out learning opportunities reduces overparenting11
Spanking and externalizing problems: Examining within‐subject associations11
“Some people will tell jokes to you; some people be racist:” A mixed‐method examination of racist jokes and adolescents’ well‐being11
Children's evaluations of interracial peer inclusion and exclusion: The role of intimacy11
A family systems investigation on couple emotional intimacy, parent–child relationships, and child social skills in middle childhood11
The contribution of the amount of linguistic exposure to bilingual language development: Longitudinal evidence from preschool years11
Sleep, Classroom Behavior, and Achievement Among Children of Color in Historically Disinvested Neighborhoods10
Control–value appraisals and academic emotions: An intensive longitudinal examination of reciprocal effects10
A metascience investigation of inclusive, open, and reproducible science practices in research posters at the 2021 SRCD biennial meeting10
Relations between children's exploration in a children's museum and their reflections about their exploration10
A counting intervention promotes fair sharing in preschoolers10
Intimate partner violence during infancy and cognitive outcomes in middle childhood: Results from an Australian community‐based mother and child cohort study10
Object labeling and disambiguation in 4‐month‐old infants10
Children's distinct drive to reproduce costly rituals10
Can 5‐month‐old infants consider the perspective of a novel eyeless agent? New evidence for early mentalistic reasoning10
A robot is watching me!: Five‐year‐old children care about their reputation after interaction with a social robot10
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Investigating if high‐quality kindergarten teachers sustain the pre‐K boost to children's emergent literacy skill development in North Carolina10
Specialized and versatile antisocial behavioral profiles in preschoolers: Associations with persistent behavioral problems10
The effects of maternal input on language in the absence of genetic confounds: Vocabulary development in internationally adopted children10
Advancing opportunities for children’s informal STEM learning transfer through parent–child narrative reflection9
The development of audiovisual speech perception in Mandarin‐speaking children: Evidence from the McGurk paradigm9
The Impact of Daily Discrimination on Sleep/Wake Problem Trajectories Among Diverse Adolescents9
Formal theories clarify the complex: Generalizing a neural process account of the interaction of visual exploration and word learning in infancy9
The Influence of Ethnic‐Racial Identity Developmental Processes on Global Bicultural Competence Development9
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The effect of spanking on early social‐emotional skills9
Development of Math Attitudes and Math Self‐Concepts: Gender Differences, Implicit–Explicit Dissociations, and Relations to Math Achievement9
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Extracurricular Activities, Screen Media Activity, and Sleep May Be Modifiable Factors Related to Children’s Cognitive Functioning: Evidence From the ABCD Study®9
Adolescents’ developing awareness of inequality: Racial and ethnic differences in trajectories9
Mothers’ Goals Influence Their Responses to Children’s Performance: An Experimental Study in the United States and Hong Kong9
Vicarious severe school discipline predicts racial disparities among non‐disciplined Black and White American adolescents9
Young children intuitively organize numbers on straight, horizontal lines from left to right before the onset of formal instruction9
Impact of the School Environment on Medical Treatment of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: A Population‐Wide Register Data Study of School‐Wide Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports8
Late Development of Early Visual Perception: No Topology‐Priority in Peripheral Vision Until Age 108
Distinct environmental cues trigger spontaneous recall of past events in 3‐ and 4‐year‐old children even after long delays8
Emotion transmission in peer dyads in middle childhood8
Cultivating emotional resilience in adolescent girls: Effects of a growth emotion mindset lesson8
Dynamic changes in perfectionism dimensions and psychological distress among adolescents assessed before and during the COVID‐19 pandemic8
Attachment security predicts adolescents’ prosocial and health protective responses to the COVID‐19 pandemic8
Learning the rules of the game: The role of generic “you” and “we” in shaping children's interpretations of norms8
Beyond linearity: Using IRT‐scaled level models to describe the relation between prior proportional reasoning skills and fraction learning outcomes8
Dynamic self‐regulation and coregulation of respiratory sinus arrhythmia in mother–child and father–child interactions: Moderating effects of proximal and distal stressors8
Registered Reports in Child Development: Introduction to the Special Section8
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Are there positive effects of having a sibling with special needs? Empathy and prosociality of twins of children with non‐typical development8
A cultural lens on Yucatec Maya families’ COVID‐19 experiences8
Preschoolers modulate contrastive inferences during online language comprehension8
Do home mathematical activities relate to early mathematical skills? A systematic review and meta‐analysis8
Parent socialization and anti‐racist ideology development in White youth: Do peer and parenting contexts matter?8
Exploring the Dynamic Interplays of Morphological Awareness and Reading Skills in Chinese Children8
A longitudinal study of how women's prenatal and postnatal concerns related to the COVID‐19 pandemic predicts their infants' social–emotional development7
Prenatal Neighborhood Ethnocultural Context and the Mental Health of Mothers and Children in Low‐Income Mexican American Families7
Do siblings influence one another? Unpacking processes that occur during sibling conflict7
Parent–Child Joint Behaviors in Novel Object Play Create High‐Quality Data for Word Learning7
Moral reasoning about gang violence in context: A comparative study with children and adolescents exposed tomarasin Honduras and not exposed in Nicaragua7
Infant‐directed speech does not always involve exaggerated vowel distinctions: Evidence from Danish7
Infants’ Preference for Social Interactions Increases from 7 to 13 Months of Age7
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Nap effects on preschool children’s learning of letter‐sound mappings7
Multimodal Measurement of Pubertal Development: Stage, Timing, Tempo, and Hormones7
A meta‐analysis on observed paternal and maternal sensitivity7
The development of place value concepts: Approximation before principles7
The future is present in the past: A meta‐analysis on the longitudinal associations of parent–adolescent relationships with peer and romantic relationships7
Paid maternal leave is associated with infant brain function at 3 months of age7
Bicultural competence and academic adjustment across Latino youth adaptation from high school to college7
Contributions of bilingual home environment and language proficiency on children’s Spanish–English reading outcomes7
The mediation effect of glucocorticoid receptor gene (NR3C1) methylation between childhood maltreatment and depressive symptoms in Chinese adolescents: A 2‐year longitudinal study7
Being versus appearing smart: Children’s developing intuitions about how reputational motives guide behavior7
Learning From “Thinkers”: Parent Epistemological Understanding Predicts Individual Differences in Children’s Judgments About Reasoners7
A moment of autonomy support brightens adolescents' mood: Autonomy support, psychological control and adolescent affect in everyday life7
Infection detection in faces: Children's development of pathogen avoidance7
You can’t change the past: Children’s recognition of the causal asymmetry between past and future events7
Frontal asymmetry assessed in infancy using functional near‐infrared spectroscopy is associated with emotional and behavioral problems in early childhood6
Older children verify adult claims because they are skeptical of those claims6
An empirical test of prototype and revisionist models of attachment stability and change from middle childhood to adolescence: A 6‐year longitudinal study6
Changing or stable? The effects of adolescents' social media use on psychosocial functioning6
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Maternal depression, parenting, and child psychological outcomes in the context of maternal pain6
Flexibility in valenced reinforcement learning computations across development6
Temperamental Shyness and Anger/Frustration in Childhood: Normative Development, Individual Differences, and the Impacts of Maternal Intrusiveness and Frontal Electroencephalogram Asymmetry6
Children's overestimation of performance across age, task, and historical time: Ameta‐analysis6
Children's expectations of nationality‐based behaviors differ for immigrants and nonimmigrants6
Determinants of socioemotional and behavioral well‐being among First Nations children living off‐reserve in Canada: A cross‐sectional study6
Princess Power: Longitudinal Associations Between Engagement With Princess Culture in Preschool and Gender Stereotypical Behavior, Body Esteem, and Hegemonic Masculinity in Early Adolescence6
Like mother like child: Differential impact of mothers' and fathers' individual language use on bilingual language exposure6
Antecedents to and outcomes associated with teacher–child relationship perceptions in early childhood: Further evidence for child‐driven effects6
Streets ahead: Neighborhood safety and active outdoor play in early childhood using a nationally representative sample of 5‐year‐olds6
Impact of daily neighborhood crime on nightly sleep among adolescents6
Early life stress and perceived social isolation influence how children use value information to guide behavior6
Peer Effects on Early Language Development in Dual Language Learners6
How children revise their beliefs in light of reasons6
Disagreement reduces overconfidence and prompts exploration in young children6
Religiosity as a moderator of the links between parental psychological control and children's prosociality6
A Cross‐Sectional Test of Sign Creation by Children in the Gesture and Vocal Modalities6
Memories of structured input become increasingly distorted across development6
Overcoming human exceptionalism: The role of ethical nature‐culture relations in the developmental contexts of indigenous children6
School readiness losses during the COVID‐19 outbreak. A comparison of two cohorts of young children6
Using latent transition analysis to evaluate the impact of perceived threats on emotional and behavioral development6
Simulating peers: Can puppets simulate peer interactions in studies on children's socio‐cognitive development?6
Trajectories and predictors of adolescent purpose development in self‐driven learning6
Visual and cognitive processes contribute to age‐related improvements in visual selective attention6
More Than Growth Mindset: Individual and Interactive Links Among Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Adolescents’ Ability Mindsets, Metacognitive Skills, and Math Engagement6
Input quality and speech perception development in bilingual infants’ first year of life6
Seeking versus receiving help: How children integrate suggestions in memory decisions6
“This kid looks like he has everything”: 3‐ to 11‐year‐old children’s concerns for fairness and social preferences when peers differ in social class and race6
How retributive motives shape the emergence of third‐party punishment across intergroup contexts6
Meeting in school: Cultural diversity approaches of teachers and intergroup contact among ethnic minority and majority adolescents6
Electrophysiological Evidence of Space‐Number Associations in 9‐Month‐Old Infants6
Understanding patterns of food insecurity and family well‐being amid the COVID‐19 pandemic using daily surveys6
Developmental Relations Between Home Literacy Environment, Reading Interest, and Reading Skills: Evidence From a 3‐Year Longitudinal Study6
The NIH Infant and Toddler Toolbox: A new standardized tool for assessing neurodevelopment in children ages 1–42 months6
Links between parent–child conversations about emotions and changes in children's emotion knowledge across early childhood6
Parent–adolescent communication in a digital world: A 100‐day diary study6
Preschoolers use probabilistic evidence to flexibly change or maintain expectations on an active search task6
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Respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) dynamics matter for children's emotion regulation: RSA inertia and instability within a stress task5
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Distressing testing: A propensity score analysis of high‐stakes exam failure and mental health5
Associations between a metal mixture and infant negative affectivity: Effect modification by prenatal cortisol and infant sex5
Children selectively endorse speculative conjectures5
Formalizing developmental phenomena as continuous‐time systems: Relations between mathematics and language development5
Preschool Children Rarely Seek Empirical Data That Could Help Them Complete a Task When Observation and Testimony Conflict5
Developmental changes in the structure of shyness and internalizing symptoms from early to middle childhood: A network analysis5
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What’s in a word? Cross‐linguistic influences on Spanish–English and Chinese–English bilingual children’s word reading development5
Socioeconomic status impacts genetic influences on the longitudinal dynamic relationship between temperament and general cognitive ability in childhood: The Louisville Twin Study5
Pubertal Timing and Adolescent Alcohol Use: The Mediating Role of Parental and Peer Influences5
White children's empathy‐related responding and prosocial behavior toward White and Black children5
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Relational language influences young children’s number relation skills5
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Developmental trajectories of Korean and heritage language proficiencies and their association with maladjustment among Korean multicultural adolescents5
Language‐specific phonological skills and the relationship with reading accuracy in Sylheti‐English sequential bilinguals5
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Prematurity, maternal emotional distress, and infant social responsiveness among Arab‐Bedouin families: The role of social support as a resilience factor5
Mini managers: Children strategically divide cognitive labor among collaborators, but with a self‐serving bias4
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