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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
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Children's Understanding of How Past Experience Shapes Future Expectations258
Testing the effectiveness of the Developing Inclusive Youth program: A multisite randomized control trial95
A Pre‐registered sticky mittens study: active training does not increase reaching and grasping in a swedish context90
Children and adults' intuitions of what people can believe57
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”56
Children's Trait Inference and Partner Choice in a Cooperative Game43
Children's evaluations of interracial peer inclusion and exclusion: The role of intimacy41
Language development beyond the here‐and‐now: Iconicity and displacement in child‐directed communication40
Learning apps at home prepare children for school40
Development of literacy skills for Japanese deaf and hard‐of‐hearing children39
Gahvora cradling in Tajikistan: Cultural practices and associations with motor development37
Paternal and maternal rejection and Chinese children's internalizing and externalizing problems across the transition to siblinghood: A developmental cascade model of family influence34
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 data34
Strengthening parental self‐efficacy and resilience: A within‐subject experimental study with refugee parents of adolescents33
Development of complex executive function over childhood: Longitudinal growth curve modeling of performance on the Groton Maze Learning Task32
The N 2 During Preschool: Temporal Stability and a Test of Bidirectional Effects With Maternal Emotion Characteristics in a White, European‐American 31
Mentalistic and normative frameworks in children's explanations of others' behaviors31
The Role of Controllability and Foreseeability in Children's Counterfactual Emotions30
Adolescent caregiving success as a predictor of social functioning from ages 13 to 3329
Links between shared and unique perspectives of parental psychological control and adolescent emotional problems: A dyadic daily diary study28
Messaging about descriptive and injunctive norms can promote honesty in young children27
Parent socialization and anti‐racist ideology development in White youth: Do peer and parenting contexts matter?27
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Simulating peers: Can puppets simulate peer interactions in studies on children's socio‐cognitive development?27
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Control–value appraisals and academic emotions: An intensive longitudinal examination of reciprocal effects25
Contributions of bilingual home environment and language proficiency on children’s Spanish–English reading outcomes25
Early Vocabulary Acquisition: From Birth Order Effect to Child‐to‐Caregiver Ratio25
School readiness losses during the COVID‐19 outbreak. A comparison of two cohorts of young children25
Emotion transmission in peer dyads in middle childhood24
The development of early numeracy in deaf and hard of hearing children acquiring spoken language23
Learning Variability Network Exchange ( LEVANTE ): A Global Framework for Measuring Children's Learning Variability Through Collaborative Data Sharin23
Childhood poverty, immune cell aging, and African Americans' insulin resistance: A prospective study22
Language‐specific phonological skills and the relationship with reading accuracy in Sylheti‐English sequential bilinguals21
Latent profiles of children's shyness: Behavioral, affective, and physiological components21
Temperament and psychopathology: The “community” to which you belong matters21
Young children's adaptive partner choice in cooperation and competition contexts21
DNA methylation variation after a parenting program for child conduct problems: Findings from a randomized controlled trial21
Peer victimization and empathy for victims of bullying: A test of bidirectional associations in childhood and adolescence21
A meta‐analysis of forgiveness education interventions’ effects on forgiveness and anger in children and adolescents20
Genetic and environmental contributions to individual differences in visual attention and oculomotor control in early infancy20
Are victims of bullying primarily social outcasts? Person‐group dissimilarities in relational, socio‐behavioral, and physical characteristics as predictors of victimization20
How does caregiver–child conversation during a scientific storybook reading impact children's mindset beliefs and persistence?20
Longitudinal links between maternal cultural socialization, peer ethnic‐racial discrimination, and ethnic‐racial pride in Mexican American youth20
Mother–child collaboration in an Indigenous community: Changing and enduring across generations20
Mothers speak less to infants during detected real‐world phone use20
Supporting child and family resilience in the face of political violence: Evidence from a home visit parenting program20
How a Preschool Intervention Affected High School Outcomes: Longitudinal Pathways in a Randomized‐Controlled Trial18
When friendships surpass parental relationships as predictors of long‐term outcomes: Adolescent relationship qualities and adult psychosocial functioning18
Sibling effects on problem and prosocial behavior in childhood: Patterns of intrafamilial “contagion” by birth order18
Empirical benchmarks for changes in social and emotional skills over time18
Does early child negative emotionality moderate the association between maternal stimulation and academic readiness and achievement?18
Maternal color‐consciousness is related to more positive and less negative attitudes toward ethnic‐racial outgroups in children in White Dutch families18
Mechanisms and pathways linking kindergarten behavior problems with mid‐life employment earnings for males from low‐income neighborhoods17
The role of accuracy in children's judgments of experts' knowledge17
Childcare Center Attendance During the Covid‐19 Pandemic: Boosting Cognitive and Language Development17
Are mobile phone ownership and age of acquisition associated with child adjustment? A 5‐year prospective study among low‐income Latinx children17
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The Comprehensive Assessment of Theory of Mind ( CAT ): A Novel Measure of 3‐ to 8‐Year‐Old Children's Theory of Mind and an Evaluation of Mental‐Sta16
Language brokering profiles of Mexican‐origin adolescents in immigrant communities: Social‐cultural contributors and developmental outcomes16
Interparental conflict dimensions and children's psychological problems: Emotion recognition as a mediator16
Utility of the social skills improvement system–rating scales for capturing dynamic social constructs: Evidence using the measurement model of derivatives15
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Examining the effectiveness of a video‐based parent–child program on executive functions for children  5 to 6 years old: A randomized controlled trial15
Anti‐phasic oscillatory development for speech and noise processing in cochlear implanted toddlers15
Metamemory for involuntary autobiographical memories and semantic mind‐pops in 5‐, 7‐ and 9‐year‐old children and young adults15
Can guidance during play enhance children’s learning and development in educational contexts? A systematic review and meta‐analysis15
Preschoolers rely on rich speech representations to process variable speech15
Correction to Girls are good at STEM: Opening minds and providing evidence reduces boys' stereotyping of girls' STEM ability14
Temporal cortex activation explains children’s improvement in math attitudes14
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Viewing Teens as Responsible in Family: Implications for Chinese Youth's Academic and Social Adjustment14
EEG Theta Power in Bangladeshi Children: Associations With Early Experiences and Cognitive Outcomes14
Parent emotional support alters the association between parent–child interbrain synchrony and interaction quality14
Parents' responses to children's math performance in early elementary school: Links with parents' math beliefs and children's math adjustment14
Cascading effects of Chinese American parents' COVID‐19 racial discrimination and racial socialization on adolescents' adjustment14
Priming group identities affects children's resource distribution among groups14
How do socioeconomic attainment gaps in early mathematical ability arise?14
Co‐rumination between friends: Considering the roles of outcome expectations, relationship provisions, and perceptions of problems13
Medium‐term protective effects of quality early childhood education during the COVID‐19 pandemic in Ghana13
Infants and toddlers leverage their understanding of action goals to evaluate agents who help others13
The complex associations between scientific reasoning and advanced theory of mind13
Parents’ daily involvement in children’s math homework and activities during early elementary school13
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Pointing out learning opportunities reduces overparenting12
White adolescents' racial contexts: Associations with critical action12
Material hardship and telomere length in children12
Developmental patterns of affective attention across the first 2 years of life12
Scaffolding the emergence of infant helping: A longitudinal experiment12
Six‐Year‐Olds, but Not Younger Children, Consider the Probability of Being Right by Chance When Inferring Others' Knowledge12
Cohort differences in the development of civic engagement during adolescence12
Effects of spatial boundaries on episodic memory development12
Effects of homicide timing on test scores: Quasi‐experimental evidence from two cities in Colombia12
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Erratum: A mediation meta‐analysis of the role of maternal responsivity in the association between socioeconomic risk and children's language12
Greasing (small) palms: Early rejection of bribery12
Adolescents' Race Consciousness Strengthens Broader Awareness of Societal Inequality11
“Some people will tell jokes to you; some people be racist:” A mixed‐method examination of racist jokes and adolescents’ well‐being11
Gene–environment interplay linking perceived parental supervision and peer drunkenness with Chinese adolescent alcohol initiation11
Building a space to dream: Supporting indigenous children's survivance through community‐engaged social and emotional learning11
Is Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch‐up effective for parents with insecure attachment states of mind?11
Automatic Extraction of Meaning From Visual Number Symbols Detected by Frequency‐Tagged EEG in Children11
Development of prosocial behavior and inhibitory control in late childhood: A longitudinal exploration of sex differences and reciprocal relations11
Theta power relates to infant object encoding in naturalistic mother‐infant interactions11
A family systems investigation on couple emotional intimacy, parent–child relationships, and child social skills in middle childhood11
Children's moral evaluations of and behaviors toward people who are curious about religion and science11
Letter–speech sound integration in typical reading development during the first years of formal education11
The development of commitment: Attention for intention11
Early social communication development in infants with autism spectrum disorder11
Learning Loopholes: The Development of Intentional Misunderstandings in Children11
Efficacy of a cultural adaptation of the Identity Project intervention among adolescents attending multiethnic classrooms in Italy: A randomized controll11
Theoretical and Quantitative Disconnect When Modeling Adverse Childhood Experiences Using a Common Factor Framework: An Argument for Causal Indicator Models in Stressor Research10
Cutting It Too Fine? The Factor Structure of Fine Motor Skills From Ages 5 to 10 Years10
Earning More Points!: The Impact of Value on Children's Memory and Self‐Regulated Learning Strategies10
Frontal asymmetry assessed in infancy using functional near‐infrared spectroscopy is associated with emotional and behavioral problems in early childhood10
Family‐level profiles of parental reactions to emotions: Longitudinal associations with multi‐informant reports of adolescent internalizing and externalizing symptoms10
Antecedents to and outcomes associated with teacher–child relationship perceptions in early childhood: Further evidence for child‐driven effects10
Intimate partner violence during infancy and cognitive outcomes in middle childhood: Results from an Australian community‐based mother and child cohort study10
Multimodal Measurement of Pubertal Development: Stage, Timing, Tempo, and Hormones10
Maternal depression, parenting, and child psychological outcomes in the context of maternal pain10
Investigating if high‐quality kindergarten teachers sustain the pre‐K boost to children's emergent literacy skill development in North Carolina10
A robot is watching me!: Five‐year‐old children care about their reputation after interaction with a social robot10
The effects of maternal input on language in the absence of genetic confounds: Vocabulary development in internationally adopted children10
Conceptualizing adverse childhood experiences as a latent factor: Tests of measurement invariance across five racial and ethnic groups10
Popularity and Academic Adjustment in the United States and China: A Meta‐Analytic Study10
You can’t change the past: Children’s recognition of the causal asymmetry between past and future events10
The future is present in the past: A meta‐analysis on the longitudinal associations of parent–adolescent relationships with peer and romantic relationships10
Distressing testing: A propensity score analysis of high‐stakes exam failure and mental health10
A counting intervention promotes fair sharing in preschoolers10
Do home mathematical activities relate to early mathematical skills? A systematic review and meta‐analysis10
Dynamic self‐regulation and coregulation of respiratory sinus arrhythmia in mother–child and father–child interactions: Moderating effects of proximal and distal stressors10
Seeking versus receiving help: How children integrate suggestions in memory decisions10
Trajectories and predictors of adolescent purpose development in self‐driven learning10
Parent–adolescent communication in a digital world: A 100‐day diary study10
Attention to novelty interferes with toddlers' emerging memory decision‐making9
The representation of emotion knowledge across development9
Developmental trajectories of Korean and heritage language proficiencies and their association with maladjustment among Korean multicultural adolescents9
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Need for Cognition Predicts Academic Interest Development but Not the Other Way Around: A Longitudinal Study of Secondary School Students9
Developmental changes in the structure of shyness and internalizing symptoms from early to middle childhood: A network analysis9
In their own words: Finding meaning in girls' experiences of puberty9
“Oh, the places you'll go”: The psychological consequences of omission and misrepresentation for Native children9
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Developments in Children's Evaluations of and Reasoning About Disability‐Related Accommodations9
A Cross‐Cultural Analysis of Infants' Spatial Attention on the Infant Orienting With Attention (IOWA) Task9
The neural correlates of working memory training in typically developing children9
Do reflection prompts promote children's conflict monitoring and revision of misconceptions?9
Seeing awe: How children perceive awe‐inspiring visual experiences9
Delay of gratification and adult outcomes: The Marshmallow Test does not reliably predict adult functioning9
Foster Care Entry and Later Academic Achievement Among Infants Involved With Child Protective Services8
Emotions or cognitions first? Longitudinal relations between executive functions and emotion regulation in childhood8
Connecting the tots: Strong looking‐pointing correlations in preschoolers' word learning and implications for continuity in language development8
Early‐life threat and deprivation: Are children similarly affected by exposure to each?8
Critical, active, and well adapted: Antecedents and consequences of adolescents' critical consciousness profiles8
An exploration of the domain specificity of maternal sensitivity among a diverse sample in the infancy period: Unique paths to child outcomes8
Parental sensitivity and child behavioral problems: A meta‐analytic review8
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“Plan chunking” expands 3‐year‐olds' ability to complete multiple‐step plans8
Bidirectional associations between nightly sleep and daily happiness and negative mood in adolescents8
Links Between Child Executive Function and Adjustment: A Three‐Site Study8
Causal Effects of an Ecologically Valid Home Numeracy Intervention on Preschoolers' Numeracy Skills8
Trajectories of early childhood family instability and the development of externalizing behaviors from middle childhood to adolescence: A prospective study of at‐risk families8
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Self‐regulation and comprehension in shared reading: The moderating effects of verbal interactions and E‐book discussion prompts8
Trajectories of socially anxious behavior from age 5 to 13: Temperamental and sociocognitive pathways8
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Strong cultural connectedness buffers urban American Indian children from the negative effects of stress on mental health8
Towards a general modeling framework of resource competition in cognitive development8
Inhibitory control, dyadic social behavior, and mental health difficulties in preschoolers8
Margarita glasses and high heels: How attention to shape, age, and vocabulary impacts children's recognition of typical and atypical exemplars8
Does evidentiality support source monitoring and false belief understanding? A cross‐linguistic study with Turkish‐ and English‐speaking children7
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Fathers' Food Parenting Practices and Children's Diets7
Gesture Production Selectively Predicts Language Outcomes in Spanish‐English Bilingual Children7
Overheard evaluative comments: Implications for beliefs about effort and ability7
One, Two, Three, Eyes on Me: Infant EEG Power Predicts Toddler Executive Functioning Through Infant Attention7
Daily links between Latinx siblings’ relationship qualities and mood7
Can resilience change over time? Patterns and transitions in resilience among young children involved with the child welfare system7
Perceived parental social support and psychological control predict depressive symptoms for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, or questioning youth in the United States7
Goal‐directedness enhances letter‐speech sound learning and consolidation in an unknown orthography7
Girls are good at STEM : Opening minds and providing evidence reduces boys' stereotyping of girls' STEM 7
24‐Hour movement behaviors and executive functions in preschoolers: A compositional and isotemporal reallocation analysis7
Early childhood naps initiate emotional memory processing in preparation for enhanced overnight consolidation7
Maltreatment type differences in cortisol stress response trajectories across adolescence7
Understanding adjustment profiles among Mexican‐origin adolescents over time: A focus on cultural risk and resilience factors7
Parental differential treatment of siblings linked with internalizing and externalizing behavior: A meta‐analysis7
Differential psychophysiological responses associated with decision‐making in children from different socioeconomic backgrounds7
Changes in children’s anger, sadness, and persistence across blocked goals: Implications for self‐regulation7
Do more hours in center‐based care cause more externalizing problems? A cross‐national replication study7
Language, ambiguity, and executive functions in adolescents' theory of mind7
Children gradually construct spatial representations of temporal events7
Configurations of mother–child and father–child attachment relationships as predictors of child language competence: An individual participant data meta‐analysis7
A metascience investigation of inclusive, open, and reproducible science practices in research posters at the 2021 SRCD biennial meeting6
Co‐recovery of physical size and cognitive ability from infancy to adolescence: A twin study6
Does having vulnerable friends help vulnerable youth? The co‐evolution of friendships, victimization, and depressive symptoms in Chinese adolescents' social networks6
Counterfactual choices and moral judgments in children6
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The effectiveness of moral disengagement and social norms as anti‐bullying components: A randomized controlled trial6
Links between repeating and growing pattern knowledge and math outcomes in children and adults6
Exploring academic and cognitive skills impacting retention and acquisition of word‐problem knowledge gained during or after intervention6
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Paths to postsecondary education enrollment among adolescents with and without childhood attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD): A longitudinal analysis of symptom and academic trajectories6
Development of categorical speech perception in Mandarin‐speaking children and adolescents6
Bicultural competence and academic adjustment across Latino youth adaptation from high school to college6
Impact of daily neighborhood crime on nightly sleep among adolescents6
Flexibility in valenced reinforcement learning computations across development6
Becoming fictional storytellers: African American children's oral narrative development in early elementary school6
Children's developing ability to adjust their beliefs reasonably in light of disagreement6
A deeper dive, a wider pool: Preschool benefits sustain to first grade on a broader set of outcomes6
Quantifying social skill deficits and strengths profiles in autistic youth6
The impact of a community‐based music program during infancy on the quality of parent–child language interactions6
A defensive mindset: A pattern of social information processing that develops early and predicts life course outcomes6
Children's Evaluations of Empathizers6
Development of information integration in the visual working memory of preschoolers6
A longitudinal examination of executive function abilities, attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder, and puberty in adolescence6
Children's Developing Understanding of the Value of Disagreement for Learning6
The NIH Infant and Toddler Toolbox: A new standardized tool for assessing neurodevelopment in children ages 1–42 months6
Children's expectations of nationality‐based behaviors differ for immigrants and nonimmigrants6
Antiracism defined as equitable sociocultural interactions in prekindergarten: Classroom racial composition makes a difference6
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Do chimpanzees reason logically?6
Easy or difficult? Children's understanding of how supply and demand affect goal completion6
Reading to learn? The co‐development of mathematics and reading during primary school6
Presidential Address: Forging a developmental science mission to improve population outcomes and eliminate disparities for young children6
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Children's socio‐moral judgments and behaviors toward peers with and without incarcerated parents6
Early childhood language gains, kindergarten readiness, and Grade 3 reading achievement6
Adolescents’ sleep and adjustment: Reciprocal effects6
Are there positive effects of having a sibling with special needs? Empathy and prosociality of twins of children with non‐typical development6
Being versus appearing smart: Children’s developing intuitions about how reputational motives guide behavior6
Environmental inequality and disparities in school readiness: The role of neurotoxic lead5
Is Uncertainty in the Eyes or in Parents' Talk? Linking an Eye‐Tracking Measure of Toddlers' Core Metacognition to Parental Metacognitive Talk5
Types of parental psychological control and rural and urban Chinese adolescents’ psychological well‐being and academic functioning5
Reconsidering the failure model: Using a genetically controlled design to assess the spread of problems from reactive aggression to internalizing symptoms through peer rejection across the primary sch5
Newborns' Asymmetrical Processing of Order From Sequentially Presented Magnitudes5
Personal Identity Development in Chinese Early Adolescents: Predictions From Parenting Style and Peer Relationships5
Coordinating movements and beliefs: Different facets of doing things together5
Development of teaching in ni‐Vanuatu children5
Infant‐directed speech does not always involve exaggerated vowel distinctions: Evidence from Danish5
The linguistic complexity of adult and child contextualized and decontextualized talk5
“She's so pretty”: The development of valuing personal attractiveness among young children5
Physiological reactivity to fear moderates the relation between parenting distress with conduct and prosocial behaviors5
Associations between a metal mixture and infant negative affectivity: Effect modification by prenatal cortisol and infant sex5
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Parenting centers and caregiver mental health: Evidence from a large‐scale randomized controlled trial in China5
Exploration, exploitation, and development: Developmental shifts in decision‐making5
Hidden talents in context: Cognitive performance with abstract versus ecological stimuli among adversity‐exposed youth5
Young Children's and Caregivers' Evaluations About Household Helping: Balancing the Interests of Helper and Recipient5
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