Child Development

Papers
(The TQCC of Child Development is 7. 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 2021-03-01 to 2025-03-01.)
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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 challenges53
Distinct Profiles of Relationships With Mothers, Fathers, and Best Friends and Social‐Behavioral Functioning in Early Adolescence: A Cross‐Cultural Study48
Children seek help based on how others learn44
Applying the PROSPER prevention delivery system with middle schools: Emerging adulthood effects on substance misuse and conduct problem behaviors through 14 years past baseline43
Reasoning to Justify Eating Animals Varies With Age39
Connecting Language Abilities and Social Competence in Children: A Meta‐Analytic Review31
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Tactile training facilitates infants' ability to reach to targets on the body29
Linking ethnic/racial discrimination to adolescent mental health: Sleep disturbances as an explanatory pathway28
Reading to learn? The co‐development of mathematics and reading during primary school28
Peer‐based discrimination and adolescent emotional and sleep health: A daily examination of direct and buffering associations27
Elementary disruptions? Exploring residential move type, timing, and duration of implications during middle childhood26
Anticipation to Social and Nonsocial Dynamic Cues in Preschool‐Age Children26
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Early Adolescents’ Food Selection After Evaluating the Healthiness of Remote Peers’ Food Choices26
Waste Aversion Reduces Inequity Aversion Among Chinese Children26
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Greasing (small) palms: Early rejection of bribery25
Maternal Judgments of Child Numeracy and Reading Ability Predict Gains in Academic Achievement and Interest25
Developmental associations between risk‐taking and anxiety symptoms across ages 8–12 years24
Effects of spatial boundaries on episodic memory development24
Multiple pathways of integration: Acculturative change and associations with school adjustment in immigrant‐origin adolescents23
A Shift in the Direction of the Production Effect in Children Aged 2–6 Years23
Academic performance and depression in Chinese children: Same‐domain and cross‐domain effects in friendships22
Variation in caregivers' references to their toddlers: Child‐directed speech in Vanuatu and Canada22
Cheating and the effect of promises in Indian and German children22
Development of prosocial behavior and inhibitory control in late childhood: A longitudinal exploration of sex differences and reciprocal relations22
Teacher Depressive Symptoms and Child Math Achievement in Head Start: The Roles of Family–Teacher Relationships and Approaches to Learning21
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Can you teach me not to be angry? Relations between temperament and the emotion regulation strategy distraction in 2‐year‐olds21
Theta power relates to infant object encoding in naturalistic mother‐infant interactions20
Children and adults' intuitions of what people can believe20
Mentalistic and normative frameworks in children's explanations of others' behaviors20
Development of literacy skills for Japanese deaf and hard‐of‐hearing children20
Paths to postsecondary education enrollment among adolescents with and without childhood attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD): A longitudinal analysis of symptom and academic trajectories19
Methodological considerations for more robust and reliable developmental science: How historical conventions bias behavioral measurements19
Do chimpanzees reason logically?19
Antiracism defined as equitable sociocultural interactions in prekindergarten: Classroom racial composition makes a difference19
Children's socio‐moral judgments and behaviors toward peers with and without incarcerated parents18
Infant Temperament Profiles, Cultural Orientation, and Toddler Behavioral and Physiological Regulation in Mexican‐American Families18
A Pre‐registered sticky mittens study: active training does not increase reaching and grasping in a swedish context18
Be there on time: Spatial‐temporal regularities guide young children’s attention in dynamic environments18
Instability, changes, and internal structure of children's attitudes toward mathematics in primary school: A four‐wave investigation17
Children's moral evaluations of and behaviors toward people who are curious about religion and science17
Effects of homicide timing on test scores: Quasi‐experimental evidence from two cities in Colombia17
Enjoyment of Chinese and mathematics and school performance in Chinese children and adolescents17
Letter–speech sound integration in typical reading development during the first years of formal education17
The development of commitment: Attention for intention17
Treating children's aggressive behavior problems using cognitive behavior therapy with virtual reality: A multicenter randomized controlled trial16
Developmental Pathways Between Infant Gestures and Symbolic Actions, and Children’s Communicative Skills at Age 5: Findings From the All Our Families Pregnancy Cohort16
The Role of Controllability and Foreseeability in Children's Counterfactual Emotions16
Building a space to dream: Supporting indigenous children's survivance through community‐engaged social and emotional learning16
Illuminating the landscape of sibling relationship quality: An evidence and gap map16
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”16
Putting Mutual Exclusivity in Context: Speaker Race Influences Monolingual and Bilingual Infants’ Word‐Learning Assumptions16
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Adolescents’ sleep and adjustment: Reciprocal effects16
Who Leads and Who Follows? The Pathways to Joint Attention During Free‐Flowing Interactions Change Over Developmental Time16
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 data15
The contribution of the amount of linguistic exposure to bilingual language development: Longitudinal evidence from preschool years15
Becoming fictional storytellers: African American children's oral narrative development in early elementary school15
Tackling Scientific Misconceptions: The Element of Surprise15
Convergence and divergence of empathic concern and empathic happiness in early childhood: Evidence from young infants and children15
More Later: Delay of Gratification and Thought About the Future in Children14
Editorial: A Vision of a Fair and Efficient, Diverse and Inclusive, Cumulative Science of Child Development in the Best and Worst of Times14
Latent classes of aggression and peer victimization: Measurement invariance and differential item functioning across sex, race‐ethnicity, cohort, and study site14
Children boost their cognitive performance with a novel offloading technique14
Maladaptive but malleable: Gender‐science stereotypes emerge early but are modifiable by language14
Gene–environment interplay linking perceived parental supervision and peer drunkenness with Chinese adolescent alcohol initiation14
The impact of perceived emotions on toddlers' word learning14
Development of complex executive function over childhood: Longitudinal growth curve modeling of performance on the Groton Maze Learning Task14
Associations between cross‐racial friendships and children’s social and academic adjustment in racially diverse classrooms14
Quantifying social skill deficits and strengths profiles in autistic youth13
Children strategically conceal selfishness13
Why Does Classroom‐Level Victimization Moderate the Association Between Victimization and Depressive Symptoms? The “Healthy Context Paradox” and Two Explanations13
Testing the effectiveness of the Developing Inclusive Youth program: A multisite randomized control trial13
Dialogue with a conversational agent promotes children’s story comprehension via enhancing engagement13
Scaffolding the emergence of infant helping: A longitudinal experiment13
Concern for mianzi: Relations with adjustment in rural and urban Chinese adolescents13
Heterogeneity in children at risk of math learning difficulties13
Links between shared and unique perspectives of parental psychological control and adolescent emotional problems: A dyadic daily diary study13
Learning apps at home prepare children for school12
Resting state networks mediate the association between both cardiovascular fitness and gross motor skills with neurocognitive functioning12
Is Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch‐up effective for parents with insecure attachment states of mind?12
Strengthening parental self‐efficacy and resilience: A within‐subject experimental study with refugee parents of adolescents12
Adolescent caregiving success as a predictor of social functioning from ages 13 to 3312
Does early childhood education help to improve high school outcomes? Results from Tulsa12
Early social communication development in infants with autism spectrum disorder12
Values‐Alignment Messaging Boosts Adolescents’ Motivation to Control Social Media Use12
Building an assessment of community‐defined social‐emotional competencies from the ground up in Tanzania12
Language acquisition in a multilingual society: English vocabulary norms and predictors in Singaporean children12
Guidance and Considerations When Performing Data‐Validity Checks12
Messaging about descriptive and injunctive norms can promote honesty in young children12
Paternal and maternal rejection and Chinese children's internalizing and externalizing problems across the transition to siblinghood: A developmental cascade model of family influence12
The effectiveness of moral disengagement and social norms as anti‐bullying components: A randomized controlled trial12
How fairness and dominance guide young children’s bargaining decisions11
Infant vocalizing and phenotypic outcomes in autism: Evidence from the first 2 years11
Does having vulnerable friends help vulnerable youth? The co‐evolution of friendships, victimization, and depressive symptoms in Chinese adolescents' social networks11
“Some people will tell jokes to you; some people be racist:” A mixed‐method examination of racist jokes and adolescents’ well‐being11
Efficacy of a cultural adaptation of theIdentity Projectintervention among adolescents attending multiethnic classrooms in Italy: A randomized controlled trial11
The effects of maternal smartphone use on mother–child interaction11
Emotional quality of early education programs improves language learning: A within‐child across context design11
Language development beyond the here‐and‐now: Iconicity and displacement in child‐directed communication11
Gahvora cradling in Tajikistan: Cultural practices and associations with motor development11
Development of categorical speech perception in Mandarin‐speaking children and adolescents11
A Developmental Hierarchical‐Integrative Perspective on the Emergence of Self‐Regulation: A Replication and Extension11
Children's developing ability to adjust their beliefs reasonably in light of disagreement11
Child‐directed speech in a large sample of U.S. mothers with low income10
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
Five‐year‐old children value reasons in apologies for belief‐based accidents10
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 (HOME10
Pointing out learning opportunities reduces overparenting10
Intimate partner violence during infancy and cognitive outcomes in middle childhood: Results from an Australian community‐based mother and child cohort study10
A counting intervention promotes fair sharing in preschoolers10
Children's evaluations of interracial peer inclusion and exclusion: The role of intimacy10
A family systems investigation on couple emotional intimacy, parent–child relationships, and child social skills in middle childhood10
Spanking and externalizing problems: Examining within‐subject associations10
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A robot is watching me!: Five‐year‐old children care about their reputation after interaction with a social robot10
Developing conceptions of forgiveness across the lifespan10
Children's distinct drive to reproduce costly rituals9
Relations between children's exploration in a children's museum and their reflections about their exploration9
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
Object labeling and disambiguation in 4‐month‐old infants9
Specialized and versatile antisocial behavioral profiles in preschoolers: Associations with persistent behavioral problems9
Can 5‐month‐old infants consider the perspective of a novel eyeless agent? New evidence for early mentalistic reasoning9
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
A metascience investigation of inclusive, open, and reproducible science practices in research posters at the 2021 SRCD biennial meeting9
Investigating if high‐quality kindergarten teachers sustain the pre‐K boost to children's emergent literacy skill development in North Carolina9
The effects of maternal input on language in the absence of genetic confounds: Vocabulary development in internationally adopted children9
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The Impact of Daily Discrimination on Sleep/Wake Problem Trajectories Among Diverse Adolescents9
The development of place value concepts: Approximation before principles8
Paid maternal leave is associated with infant brain function at 3 months of age8
The effect of spanking on early social‐emotional skills8
Trajectories and predictors of adolescent purpose development in self‐driven learning8
Contributions of bilingual home environment and language proficiency on children’s Spanish–English reading outcomes8
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Attachment security predicts adolescents’ prosocial and health protective responses to the COVID‐19 pandemic8
Adolescents’ developing awareness of inequality: Racial and ethnic differences in trajectories8
Like mother like child: Differential impact of mothers' and fathers' individual language use on bilingual language exposure8
Young children intuitively organize numbers on straight, horizontal lines from left to right before the onset of formal instruction8
Extracurricular Activities, Screen Media Activity, and Sleep May Be Modifiable Factors Related to Children’s Cognitive Functioning: Evidence From the ABCD Study®8
A longitudinal study of how women's prenatal and postnatal concerns related to the COVID‐19 pandemic predicts their infants' social–emotional development8
Advancing opportunities for children’s informal STEM learning transfer through parent–child narrative reflection8
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Parent–adolescent communication in a digital world: A 100‐day diary study8
The development of audiovisual speech perception in Mandarin‐speaking children: Evidence from the McGurk paradigm8
How children revise their beliefs in light of reasons7
Streets ahead: Neighborhood safety and active outdoor play in early childhood using a nationally representative sample of 5‐year‐olds7
Determinants of socioemotional and behavioral well‐being among First Nations children living off‐reserve in Canada: A cross‐sectional study7
Children's overestimation of performance across age, task, and historical time: Ameta‐analysis7
Maternal depression, parenting, and child psychological outcomes in the context of maternal pain7
Are there positive effects of having a sibling with special needs? Empathy and prosociality of twins of children with non‐typical development7
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Flexibility in valenced reinforcement learning computations across development7
A Cross‐Sectional Test of Sign Creation by Children in the Gesture and Vocal Modalities7
Using latent transition analysis to evaluate the impact of perceived threats on emotional and behavioral development7
Meeting in school: Cultural diversity approaches of teachers and intergroup contact among ethnic minority and majority adolescents7
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Emotion transmission in peer dyads in middle childhood7
Learning the rules of the game: The role of generic “you” and “we” in shaping children's interpretations of norms7
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Understanding patterns of food insecurity and family well‐being amid the COVID‐19 pandemic using daily surveys7
The NIH Infant and Toddler Toolbox: A new standardized tool for assessing neurodevelopment in children ages 1–42 months7
Overcoming human exceptionalism: The role of ethical nature‐culture relations in the developmental contexts of indigenous children7
How retributive motives shape the emergence of third‐party punishment across intergroup contexts7
Late Development of Early Visual Perception: No Topology‐Priority in Peripheral Vision Until Age 107
Distressing testing: A propensity score analysis of high‐stakes exam failure and mental health7
Disagreement reduces overconfidence and prompts exploration in young children7
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