Child Development

Papers
(The TQCC of Child Development is 8. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
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Development of complex executive function over childhood: Longitudinal growth curve modeling of performance on the Groton Maze Learning Task141
Development of literacy skills for Japanese deaf and hard‐of‐hearing children79
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 data77
Mentalistic and normative frameworks in children's explanations of others' behaviors73
Messaging about descriptive and injunctive norms can promote honesty in young children66
Strengthening parental self‐efficacy and resilience: A within‐subject experimental study with refugee parents of adolescents51
Adolescent caregiving success as a predictor of social functioning from ages 13 to 3350
Links between shared and unique perspectives of parental psychological control and adolescent emotional problems: A dyadic daily diary study49
Language development beyond the here‐and‐now: Iconicity and displacement in child‐directed communication38
Children strategically conceal selfishness38
A Pre‐registered sticky mittens study: active training does not increase reaching and grasping in a swedish context38
Children's Trait Inference and Partner Choice in a Cooperative Game38
Children and adults' intuitions of what people can believe37
Infant Temperament Profiles, Cultural Orientation, and Toddler Behavioral and Physiological Regulation in Mexican‐American Families33
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”32
Paternal and maternal rejection and Chinese children's internalizing and externalizing problems across the transition to siblinghood: A developmental cascade model of family influence31
Gahvora cradling in Tajikistan: Cultural practices and associations with motor development31
Learning apps at home prepare children for school30
Children's evaluations of interracial peer inclusion and exclusion: The role of intimacy29
The Role of Controllability and Foreseeability in Children's Counterfactual Emotions29
A Shift in the Direction of the Production Effect in Children Aged 2–6 Years29
Testing the effectiveness of the Developing Inclusive Youth program: A multisite randomized control trial28
Children boost their cognitive performance with a novel offloading technique28
Simulating peers: Can puppets simulate peer interactions in studies on children's socio‐cognitive development?27
Parent socialization and anti‐racist ideology development in White youth: Do peer and parenting contexts matter?27
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 Supports26
Contributions of bilingual home environment and language proficiency on children’s Spanish–English reading outcomes26
School readiness losses during the COVID‐19 outbreak. A comparison of two cohorts of young children26
Control–value appraisals and academic emotions: An intensive longitudinal examination of reciprocal effects26
Peer Effects on Early Language Development in Dual Language Learners25
Temperamental Shyness and Anger/Frustration in Childhood: Normative Development, Individual Differences, and the Impacts of Maternal Intrusiveness and Frontal Electroencephalogram Asymmetry25
Electrophysiological Evidence of Space‐Number Associations in 9‐Month‐Old Infants25
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Emotion transmission in peer dyads in middle childhood25
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How does caregiver–child conversation during a scientific storybook reading impact children's mindset beliefs and persistence?24
Mother–child collaboration in an Indigenous community: Changing and enduring across generations24
Mothers speak less to infants during detected real‐world phone use24
Young children's adaptive partner choice in cooperation and competition contexts23
Language‐specific phonological skills and the relationship with reading accuracy in Sylheti‐English sequential bilinguals23
Peer victimization and empathy for victims of bullying: A test of bidirectional associations in childhood and adolescence22
Temperament and psychopathology: The “community” to which you belong matters22
Latent profiles of children's shyness: Behavioral, affective, and physiological components21
Genetic and environmental contributions to individual differences in visual attention and oculomotor control in early infancy21
The development of early numeracy in deaf and hard of hearing children acquiring spoken language21
A meta‐analysis of forgiveness education interventions’ effects on forgiveness and anger in children and adolescents21
Childhood poverty, immune cell aging, and African Americans' insulin resistance: A prospective study21
Longitudinal links between maternal cultural socialization, peer ethnic‐racial discrimination, and ethnic‐racial pride in Mexican American youth21
Mechanisms and pathways linking kindergarten behavior problems with mid‐life employment earnings for males from low‐income neighborhoods20
DNA methylation variation after a parenting program for child conduct problems: Findings from a randomized controlled trial20
Supporting child and family resilience in the face of political violence: Evidence from a home visit parenting program20
Sibling effects on problem and prosocial behavior in childhood: Patterns of intrafamilial “contagion” by birth order20
Language brokering profiles of Mexican‐origin adolescents in immigrant communities: Social‐cultural contributors and developmental outcomes20
Does early child negative emotionality moderate the association between maternal stimulation and academic readiness and achievement?19
Measuring the quality of early childhood education: Associations with children’s development from a national study with the IMCEIC tool in Colombia19
Are victims of bullying primarily social outcasts? Person‐group dissimilarities in relational, socio‐behavioral, and physical characteristics as predictors of victimization19
Interparental conflict dimensions and children's psychological problems: Emotion recognition as a mediator19
When friendships surpass parental relationships as predictors of long‐term outcomes: Adolescent relationship qualities and adult psychosocial functioning19
Empirical benchmarks for changes in social and emotional skills over time19
The effects of reward on children’s Stroop performance: Interactions with temperament19
The role of accuracy in children's judgments of experts' knowledge19
Childcare Center Attendance During the Covid‐19 Pandemic: Boosting Cognitive and Language Development19
Maternal color‐consciousness is related to more positive and less negative attitudes toward ethnic‐racial outgroups in children in White Dutch families19
How a Preschool Intervention Affected High School Outcomes: Longitudinal Pathways in a Randomized‐Controlled Trial18
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Are mobile phone ownership and age of acquisition associated with child adjustment? A 5‐year prospective study among low‐income Latinx children18
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Can guidance during play enhance children’s learning and development in educational contexts? A systematic review and meta‐analysis18
Atypical Developmental Trajectories of Early Perception Among School‐Age Children With Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder During a Visual Search Task17
Priming group identities affects children's resource distribution among groups17
Metamemory for involuntary autobiographical memories and semantic mind‐pops in 5‐, 7‐ and 9‐year‐old children and young adults17
Parent emotional support alters the association between parent–child interbrain synchrony and interaction quality17
How do socioeconomic attainment gaps in early mathematical ability arise?17
Correction to Girls are good at STEM: Opening minds and providing evidence reduces boys' stereotyping of girls' STEM ability17
Anti‐phasic oscillatory development for speech and noise processing in cochlear implanted toddlers17
Utility of the social skills improvement system–rating scales for capturing dynamic social constructs: Evidence using the measurement model of derivatives16
Preschoolers rely on rich speech representations to process variable speech16
Cascading effects of Chinese American parents' COVID‐19 racial discrimination and racial socialization on adolescents' adjustment16
Parents' responses to children's math performance in early elementary school: Links with parents' math beliefs and children's math adjustment16
Examining the effectiveness of a video‐based parent–child program on executive functions for children  5 to 6 years old: A randomized controlled trial16
Temporal cortex activation explains children’s improvement in math attitudes16
The complex associations between scientific reasoning and advanced theory of mind15
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White adolescents' racial contexts: Associations with critical action15
Cohort differences in the development of civic engagement during adolescence15
Developmental patterns of affective attention across the first 2 years of life15
Co‐rumination between friends: Considering the roles of outcome expectations, relationship provisions, and perceptions of problems15
Erratum: A mediation meta‐analysis of the role of maternal responsivity in the association between socioeconomic risk and children's language15
Material hardship and telomere length in children15
Early life stress and behavior problems in early childhood: Investigating the contributions of child temperament and executive functions to resilience15
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A human rights approach: The right to education in the time of COVID‐1914
Parents’ daily involvement in children’s math homework and activities during early elementary school14
Greasing (small) palms: Early rejection of bribery14
A family systems investigation on couple emotional intimacy, parent–child relationships, and child social skills in middle childhood14
Effects of homicide timing on test scores: Quasi‐experimental evidence from two cities in Colombia14
Medium‐term protective effects of quality early childhood education during the COVID‐19 pandemic in Ghana14
Effects of spatial boundaries on episodic memory development14
“Some people will tell jokes to you; some people be racist:” A mixed‐method examination of racist jokes and adolescents’ well‐being14
The development of commitment: Attention for intention14
Development of prosocial behavior and inhibitory control in late childhood: A longitudinal exploration of sex differences and reciprocal relations14
Scaffolding the emergence of infant helping: A longitudinal experiment14
Infants and toddlers leverage their understanding of action goals to evaluate agents who help others14
Early Adolescents’ Food Selection After Evaluating the Healthiness of Remote Peers’ Food Choices14
Gene–environment interplay linking perceived parental supervision and peer drunkenness with Chinese adolescent alcohol initiation14
Letter–speech sound integration in typical reading development during the first years of formal education14
Values‐Alignment Messaging Boosts Adolescents’ Motivation to Control Social Media Use13
Theta power relates to infant object encoding in naturalistic mother‐infant interactions13
Building a space to dream: Supporting indigenous children's survivance through community‐engaged social and emotional learning13
Is Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch‐up effective for parents with insecure attachment states of mind?13
Learning Loopholes: The Development of Intentional Misunderstandings in Children12
Efficacy of a cultural adaptation of theIdentity Projectintervention among adolescents attending multiethnic classrooms in Italy: A randomized controlled trial12
Early social communication development in infants with autism spectrum disorder12
Children's moral evaluations of and behaviors toward people who are curious about religion and science12
Distinct Profiles of Relationships With Mothers, Fathers, and Best Friends and Social‐Behavioral Functioning in Early Adolescence: A Cross‐Cultural Study12
You can’t change the past: Children’s recognition of the causal asymmetry between past and future events12
Pointing out learning opportunities reduces overparenting12
Adolescents' Race Consciousness Strengthens Broader Awareness of Societal Inequality12
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Dynamic self‐regulation and coregulation of respiratory sinus arrhythmia in mother–child and father–child interactions: Moderating effects of proximal and distal stressors11
Theoretical and Quantitative Disconnect When Modeling Adverse Childhood Experiences Using a Common Factor Framework: An Argument for Causal Indicator Models in Stressor Research11
Seeking versus receiving help: How children integrate suggestions in memory decisions11
A cultural lens on Yucatec Maya families’ COVID‐19 experiences11
Infants’ Preference for Social Interactions Increases from 7 to 13 Months of Age11
Frontal asymmetry assessed in infancy using functional near‐infrared spectroscopy is associated with emotional and behavioral problems in early childhood11
Distressing testing: A propensity score analysis of high‐stakes exam failure and mental health11
Antecedents to and outcomes associated with teacher–child relationship perceptions in early childhood: Further evidence for child‐driven effects11
The effects of maternal input on language in the absence of genetic confounds: Vocabulary development in internationally adopted children11
Maternal depression, parenting, and child psychological outcomes in the context of maternal pain11
The future is present in the past: A meta‐analysis on the longitudinal associations of parent–adolescent relationships with peer and romantic relationships11
Do home mathematical activities relate to early mathematical skills? A systematic review and meta‐analysis11
A robot is watching me!: Five‐year‐old children care about their reputation after interaction with a social robot11
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A counting intervention promotes fair sharing in preschoolers11
Investigating if high‐quality kindergarten teachers sustain the pre‐K boost to children's emergent literacy skill development in North Carolina10
Multimodal Measurement of Pubertal Development: Stage, Timing, Tempo, and Hormones10
Attention to novelty interferes with toddlers' emerging memory decision‐making10
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Developmental changes in the structure of shyness and internalizing symptoms from early to middle childhood: A network analysis10
Trajectories and predictors of adolescent purpose development in self‐driven learning10
Parent–Child Joint Behaviors in Novel Object Play Create High‐Quality Data for Word Learning10
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Developmental Differences in Subjective Recollection and Its Role in Decision Making10
Family‐level profiles of parental reactions to emotions: Longitudinal associations with multi‐informant reports of adolescent internalizing and externalizing symptoms10
Intimate partner violence during infancy and cognitive outcomes in middle childhood: Results from an Australian community‐based mother and child cohort study10
Parent–adolescent communication in a digital world: A 100‐day diary study10
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“Oh, the places you'll go”: The psychological consequences of omission and misrepresentation for Native children10
In their own words: Finding meaning in girls' experiences of puberty10
Delay of gratification and adult outcomes: The Marshmallow Test does not reliably predict adult functioning10
The Very Best of Me: Longitudinal Associations of Perfectionism and Identity Processes in Adolescence9
Critical, active, and well adapted: Antecedents and consequences of adolescents' critical consciousness profiles9
The representation of emotion knowledge across development9
The neural correlates of working memory training in typically developing children9
Self‐regulation and comprehension in shared reading: The moderating effects of verbal interactions and E‐book discussion prompts9
Connecting the tots: Strong looking‐pointing correlations in preschoolers' word learning and implications for continuity in language development9
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Strong cultural connectedness buffers urban American Indian children from the negative effects of stress on mental health9
Seeing awe: How children perceive awe‐inspiring visual experiences9
Children’s screen and problematic media use in the United States before and during the COVID‐19 pandemic9
Conceptualizing adverse childhood experiences as a latent factor: Tests of measurement invariance across five racial and ethnic groups9
Trajectories of socially anxious behavior from age 5 to 13: Temperamental and sociocognitive pathways9
“Plan chunking” expands 3‐year‐olds' ability to complete multiple‐step plans9
Developmental trajectories of Korean and heritage language proficiencies and their association with maladjustment among Korean multicultural adolescents9
Do reflection prompts promote children's conflict monitoring and revision of misconceptions?9
A Cross‐Cultural Analysis of Infants' Spatial Attention on the Infant Orienting With Attention (IOWA) Task9
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An exploration of the domain specificity of maternal sensitivity among a diverse sample in the infancy period: Unique paths to child outcomes8
Inhibitory control, dyadic social behavior, and mental health difficulties in preschoolers8
Effects of the COVID‐19 pandemic on caregiver mental health and the child caregiving environment in a low‐resource, rural context8
Racial discrimination and the moderating effects of racial and ethnic socialization on the mental health of Asian American youth8
Overheard evaluative comments: Implications for beliefs about effort and ability8
Maltreatment type differences in cortisol stress response trajectories across adolescence8
24‐Hour movement behaviors and executive functions in preschoolers: A compositional and isotemporal reallocation analysis8
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Do more hours in center‐based care cause more externalizing problems? A cross‐national replication study8
Parental differential treatment of siblings linked with internalizing and externalizing behavior: A meta‐analysis8
Margarita glasses and high heels: How attention to shape, age, and vocabulary impacts children's recognition of typical and atypical exemplars8
Changes in children’s anger, sadness, and persistence across blocked goals: Implications for self‐regulation8
Early‐life threat and deprivation: Are children similarly affected by exposure to each?8
Early childhood naps initiate emotional memory processing in preparation for enhanced overnight consolidation8
Towards a general modeling framework of resource competition in cognitive development8
Language, ambiguity, and executive functions in adolescents' theory of mind8
Emotions or cognitions first? Longitudinal relations between executive functions and emotion regulation in childhood8
Girls are good at STEM: Opening minds and providing evidence reduces boys' stereotyping of girls' STEM ability8
Bidirectional associations between nightly sleep and daily happiness and negative mood in adolescents8
Differential psychophysiological responses associated with decision‐making in children from different socioeconomic backgrounds8
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