Developmental Psychology

Papers
(The TQCC of Developmental Psychology 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
Sexual identity development milestones in three generations of sexual minority people: A national probability sample.99
Family resilience and psychological distress in the COVID-19 pandemic: A mixed methods study.74
Changes in family chaos and family relationships during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from a longitudinal study.74
Social media use and friendship closeness in adolescents’ daily lives: An experience sampling study.69
Effects of spatial training on mathematics performance: A meta-analysis.67
Individuals’ math and science motivation and their subsequent STEM choices and achievement in high school and college: A longitudinal study of gender and college generation status differences.58
Effects of a statewide pre-kindergarten program on children’s achievement and behavior through sixth grade.56
Development of parent-adolescent relationships during the COVID-19 pandemic: The role of stress and coping.53
Parenting adolescents in times of a pandemic: Changes in relationship quality, autonomy support, and parental control?51
Connections during crisis: Adolescents’ social dynamics and mental health during COVID-19.41
Children’s evaluations of individually and structurally based inequalities: The role of status.40
Chinese mothers’ parental burnout and adolescents’ internalizing and externalizing problems: The mediating role of maternal hostility.40
COVID-19 disruption gets inside the family: A two-month multilevel study of family stress during the pandemic.39
Parents’ distress and poor parenting during a COVID-19 lockdown: The buffering effects of partner support and cooperative coparenting.39
Measurement models for studying child executive functioning: Questioning the status quo.38
Parent–adolescent relationship quality as a moderator of links between COVID-19 disruption and reported changes in mothers’ and young adults’ adjustment in five countries.35
Introduction to the special issue: Parenting and family dynamics in times of the COVID-19 pandemic.34
Is a procedural learning deficit a causal risk factor for developmental language disorder or dyslexia? A meta-analytic review.30
Preschool executive function and adult outcomes: A developmental cascade model.30
“[I]t’s hard because it’s the cops that are killing us for stupid stuff”: Racial identity in the sociopolitical context of Black Lives Matter.28
Distance learning, parent–child interactions, and affective well-being of parents and children during the COVID-19 pandemic: A daily diary study.26
What is text reading fluency and is it a predictor or an outcome of reading comprehension? A longitudinal investigation.26
Implications of COVID-19 school closures for sibling dynamics among U.S. Latinx children: A prospective, daily diary study.25
Shocks to the system: The influence of COVID-19–related stressors on coparental and family functioning.25
Identifying the role of parent–child conflict and intimacy in Chinese adolescents’ psychological distress during school reopening in COVID-19 pandemic.25
Early exploration of one’s own body, exploration of objects, and motor, language, and cognitive development relate dynamically across the first two years of life.24
Examining intergenerational transmission of psychopathology: Associations between parental and adolescent internalizing and externalizing symptoms across adolescence.24
Persistence and convergence: The end of kindergarten outcomes of pre-K graduates and their nonattending peers.24
Childhood gender nonconformity and the stability of self-reported sexual orientation from adolescence to young adulthood in a birth cohort.23
The unity and diversity of executive functions: A network approach to life span development.22
Show, give, and point gestures across infancy differentially predict language development.22
Rhythm as an independent determinant of developmental dyslexia.22
Mothers talk about infants’ actions: How verbs correspond to infants’ real-time behavior.21
The policing paradox: Police stops predict youth’s school disengagement via elevated psychological distress.20
A conceptual review of identity integration across adulthood.20
Cascades in action: How the transition to walking shapes caregiver communication during everyday interactions.20
The development of metacognitive accuracy in working memory across childhood.19
Developmental differences in the malleability of implicit racial bias following exposure to counterstereotypical exemplars.19
Parents’ causal talk: Links to children’s causal stance and emerging scientific literacy.19
The trajectory of counterfactual simulation in development.19
Working memory development from early childhood to adolescence using two nationally representative samples.18
Developmental psychology and the scientific status of parental alienation.18
The development of cooperation and self-control in middle childhood: Associations with earlier maternal and paternal parenting.18
Iron deficiency in infancy and neurocognitive and educational outcomes in young adulthood.18
Dynamic associations among socioeconomic status (SES), parenting investments, and conscientiousness across time and generations.18
Age and ability differentiation in children: A review and empirical investigation.18
Family risk and resilience in the context of cascading COVID-19 challenges: Commentary on the special issue.17
Adolescent Big Five personality and pubertal development: Pubertal hormone concentrations and self-reported pubertal status.17
Improvements in motor competence skills are associated with improvements in executive function and math problem-solving skills in early childhood.17
The associations of maternal warmth and hostility with prosocial and antisocial outcomes in justice-involved adolescents.16
Physical punishment as a predictor of early cognitive development: Evidence from econometric approaches.16
Kindergarteners’ symbolic number abilities predict nonsymbolic number abilities and math achievement in grade 1.16
Examining three hypotheses for pre-kindergarten fade-out.16
Identity disruption and its association with mental health among veterans with reintegration difficulty.16
Longitudinal change in daily stress across 20 years of adulthood: Results from the national study of daily experiences.16
Changes in disclosure stress and depression symptoms in a sample of lesbian, gay, and bisexual youth.16
Socioeconomic origin, future expectations, and educational achievement: A longitudinal three-generation study of the persistence of family advantage.15
Children’s outgroup giving in settings of intergroup conflict: The developmental role of ingroup symbol preference.15
The dynamics of interference control across childhood and adolescence: Distribution analyses in three conflict tasks and ten age groups.15
Age differences in emotion regulation during ongoing affective life: A naturalistic experience sampling study.15
Parasympathetic activity, emotion socialization, and internalizing and externalizing problems in children: Longitudinal associations between and within families.15
Consistency of gender identity and preferences across time: An exploration among cisgender and transgender children.15
Effect of daily school and care disruptions during the COVID-19 pandemic on child behavior problems.15
Mind the orthography: Revisiting the contribution of prereading phonological awareness to reading acquisition.15
A longitudinal study of families formed through third-party assisted reproduction: Mother–child relationships and child adjustment from infancy to adulthood.14
Gender stereotypes are racialized: A cross-cultural investigation of gender stereotypes about intellectual talents.14
Census tract ambient ozone predicts trajectories of depressive symptoms in adolescents.14
Tuning in to kids: A randomized controlled trial of an emotion coaching parenting program for Chinese parents in Hong Kong.14
A meta-analysis of child–parent attachment in early childhood and prosociality.14
Trajectories in sense of identity and relationship with life satisfaction during adolescence and young adulthood.14
With a little help from my empathic friends: The role of peers in the development of empathy in adolescence.13
Personal narrative as a “breeding ground” for higher-order thinking talk in early parent–child interactions.13
Giving priority to race or wealth in peer group contexts involving social inclusion.13
Motivational profiles across domains and academic choices within Eccles et al.’s situated expectancy–value theoretical framework.13
Children’s trust in and learning from voice assistants.13
Individual differences in the development of children’s arithmetic fluency from grades 2 to 3.13
Do complement clauses really support false-belief reasoning? A longitudinal study with English-speaking 2- to 3-year-olds.13
Children’s developing work habits from middle childhood to early adolescence: Cascading effects for academic outcomes in adolescence and adulthood.13
Randomized trial of promoting first relationships for new mothers who received community mental health services in pregnancy.12
Contextualizing the role of intrusive parenting in toddler behavior problems and emotion regulation: Is more always worse?12
“Just as good”: Learning gender stereotypes from attempts to counteract them.12
Developmental changes in natural scene viewing in infancy.12
Factors associated with behavioral adjustment among school-age children of gay and heterosexual single fathers through surrogacy.12
Childhood abuse and neglect and self-reported symptoms of psychopathology through midlife.12
Distinctions between moral and conventional judgments from early to middle childhood: A meta-analysis of social domain theory research.12
Executive functions and science achievement during the five-to-seven-year shift.12
Momentary links between adolescents’ social media use and social experiences and motivations: Individual differences by peer susceptibility.11
Maternal emotional distress and infant sleep: A longitudinal study from pregnancy through 18 months.11
Adolescent development of interethnic attitudes following a social intervention to increase intergroup contact: The moderating role of affective forecasting.11
Culturally shared and unique meanings and expressions of maternal control across four cultures.11
Approach-avoidance conflict and shyness: A developmental investigation.11
A network approach to understanding parenting: Linking coparenting, parenting styles, and parental involvement in rearing adolescents in different age groups.11
Social comparison effects on academic self-concepts—Which peers matter most?11
The role of negative emotionality in the development of child executive function and language abilities from toddlerhood to first grade: An adoption study.11
Explaining cross-cultural variation in mirror self-recognition: New insights into the ontogeny of objective self-awareness.11
Autonomy- and connectedness-oriented behaviors of toddlers and mothers at different historical times in urban China.11
Parents’ responses to their children’s performance: A process examination in the United States and China.11
Latinx adolescents’ ethnic-racial discrimination and expected future barriers over time.11
Age differences in decision making under known risk: The role of working memory and impulsivity.11
Executive function mediates the association between cumulative risk and learning in Ghanaian schoolchildren.11
Distributive justice in society and among peers: 8- to 14-year-olds’ views on economic stratification inform their decisions about access to opportunities.10
Beyond early years versus adolescence: The interactive effect of adversity in both periods on life-course development.10
The swerve: How childhood bilingualism changed from liability to benefit.10
Same-race friendship preference across the middle school years: The role of school racial/ethnic context.10
Forms of peer victimization in adolescence: Covariation with symptoms of depression.10
Positive impacts of a strengths-based family program on Latino kindergarteners’ narrative language abilities.10
Beyond perceptual narrowing: Monolingual and bilingual infants discriminate Hindi contrasts when learning words in the second year of life.10
Intersensory matching of faces and voices in infancy predicts language outcomes in young children.10
Do child–father and child–mother preschool insecure attachment types predict the development of externalizing behaviors in boys and girls during middle childhood?10
What’s in a distraction? The effect of parental cell phone use on parents’ and children’s question-asking.10
Family context in association with the development of child sensory processing sensitivity.10
Cracking the code of place value: The relationship between place and value takes years to master.10
Reciprocal relation between executive function and receptive vocabulary in Chinese preschoolers: Evidence from a two-year longitudinal study.10
Examining a developmental pathway from early behavioral inhibition to emotion regulation and social anxiety: The moderating role of parenting.10
Applying stress and coping models to ethnic/racial identity, discrimination, and adjustment among diverse adolescents.10
Musical instrument engagement in adolescence predicts verbal ability 4 years later: A twin and adoption study.10
Developmental profiles of reading fluency and reading comprehension from grades 1 to 9 and their early identification.10
Children’s dove temperament as a differential susceptibility factor in child rearing contexts.10
Patterns of early adult work and postsecondary participation among individuals with high-incidence disabilities: A longitudinal person-centered analysis.10
Does Taekwondo improve children’s self-regulation? If so, how? A randomized field experiment.9
The long-term benefits of adolescent school engagement for adult educational and employment outcomes.9
Giving a larger amount or a larger proportion: Stimulus format impacts children’s social evaluations.9
Third-party punishment promotes fairness in children.9
Developmental changes in infants’ and children’s attention to faces and salient regions vary across and within video stimuli.9
Shared education as a contact-based intervention to improve intergroup relations among adolescents in postconflict Northern Ireland.9
Attention and behavior problems in childhood predict adult financial status, health, and criminal activity: A conceptual replication and extension of Moffitt et al. (2011) using cohorts from the Unite9
Developmental change in the nature of attention allocation in a dual task.9
Young children value recipients who display gratitude.9
Temporal stability and effect dynamics between executive functions, perceived chronic stress, and hair cortisol concentrations.9
Reading real words versus pseudowords: A meta-analysis of research in developmental dyslexia.9
Genetic and environmental contributions to co-occurring ADHD and emotional problems in school-aged children.9
Young children rely on gossip when jointly reasoning about whom to believe.9
A prospective examination of neighborhood social and cultural cohesion and parenting processes on ethnic-racial identity among U.S. Mexican adolescents.9
Canadian children’s concepts of national groups: A comparison with children from the United States.9
Family meals buffer the daily emotional risk associated with family conflict.9
Development in context: What we need to know to assess children’s attachment relationships.8
Development of updating in working memory in 4–7-year-old children.8
Young children do not perceive distributional fairness as a moral norm.8
“It bites!”: The transmission of negative information about snakes and spiders through a naturalistic picture book interaction.8
The development of infants’ responses to mispronunciations: A meta-analysis.8
When does 1 + 1 not equal 2? The relative advantage of public school-based pre-k versus Head Start for low-income children’s kindergarten cognitive and self-regulatory skills.8
Perceptions of the future in adolescence predict depressive symptoms in adolescence and early and middle adulthood.8
The minds of machines: Children's beliefs about the experiences, thoughts, and morals of familiar interactive technologies.8
Developmental differences in bystander behavior toward intergroup and intragroup exclusion.8
Young children infer psychological ownership from stewardship.8
Children intend to teach conventional but not moral norms selectively to ingroup members.8
Early child care experiences and attachment representations at age 18 years: Evidence from the NICHD study of Early Child Care and Youth Development.8
Executive control throughout elementary school: Factor structure and associations with early childhood executive control.8
The destabilization and destandardization of social roles across the adult life course: Considering aggregate social role instability and its variability from a historical-developmental perspective.8
Working memory capacity development through childhood: A longitudinal analysis.8
Does kindergarten instruction matter for sustaining the prekindergarten (PreK) boost? Evidence from individual- and classroom-level survey and observational data.8
Social wariness, preference for solitude, and peer difficulties in middle childhood: A longitudinal family-informed study.8
Recitation and listening to nursery rhymes in the familiarization with a literacy language in kindergarteners: Not kids’ stuff.8
The cost and benefit of fear induction parenting on children’s health during the COVID-19 outbreak.8
How does inhibitory control predict emotion regulation in preschool? The role of individual children’s interactions with teachers and peers.8
Relations among family, peer, and academic stress and adjustment in Chinese adolescents: A daily diary analysis.8
The effect of episodic future thinking on young children’s future-oriented decision making.7
Observing others’ joint attention increases 9-month-old infants’ object encoding.7
Conformity decreases throughout middle childhood among ni-Vanuatu children: An intracultural comparison.7
Revisiting the intricate interplay between aggression and preadolescents’ school functioning: Longitudinal predictions and multilevel latent profiles.7
Longitudinal and daily associations between adolescent self-control and digital technology use.7
Explaining the relation between early mind-mindedness and children’s mentalizing abilities: The development of an observational preschool assessment.7
The trajectory of marital satisfaction among Chinese newlyweds: Intrapersonal, interpersonal, and stress predictors.7
Bidirectional longitudinal relations between executive function and social function across adolescence.7
The role of school friendship stability, instability, and network size in early adolescents’ social adjustment.7
Effects of rhythmic turn-taking coordination on five-year-old children’s prosocial behaviors.7
Mechanisms of parent–child transmission of tobacco and alcohol use with polygenic risk scores: Evidence for a genetic nurture effect.7
Reexamining the cultural specificity of controlling and autonomy-supportive parenting in the United States and China with a within-individual analytic approach.7
The influence of books’ textual features and caregivers’ extratextual talk on children’s science learning in the context of shared book reading.7
Mexican-origin youth’s ethnic-racial identity development: The role of siblings.7
A pupillometry study of multisensory social and linguistic processing in autism and typical development.7
Delinquency abstainers in adolescence and educational and labor market outcomes in midlife: A population-based 25-year longitudinal study.7
Training young children in strategic deception promotes epistemic vigilance.7
Infant crying predicts real-time fluctuations in maternal mental health in ecologically valid home settings.7
Development of students’ social support profiles and their association with students’ study wellbeing.7
Longitudinal associations between prosocial behavior and behavioral problems across childhood: A robust random-intercept cross-lagged panel model.7
Sleepless: The developmental significance of sleep quality and quantity among adolescents.7
Adolescents sample more information prior to decisions than adults when effort costs increase.7
Spatial skills, but not spatial anxiety, mediate the gender difference in number line estimation.6
Cross-race and cross-ethnic friendships and psychological well-being trajectories among Asian American adolescents: Variations by school context.6
Preterm infant contingent communication in the neonatal intensive care unit with mothers versus fathers.6
Infant attention and maternal education are associated with childhood receptive vocabulary development.6
Toddlers’ helping, sharing, and empathic distress: Does the race of the target matter?6
Early maternal sensitivity and markers of physical health: Enduring or transient associations from childhood to adulthood?6
The longitudinal influence of parenting and parents’ traces on narrative identity in young adulthood.6
Unequal selves in the classroom: Nature, origins, and consequences of socioeconomic disparities in children’s self-views.6
Mothers’ and fathers’ mind-mindedness in infancy and toddlerhood predict their children’s self-regulation at preschool age.6
Self-regulated and externally regulated learning in adolescence: Developmental trajectories and relations with teacher behavior, parent behavior, and academic achievement.6
Dialogic reading with attention-deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) kindergarteners: Does reading with parents or siblings enhance their language development?6
Does third-party punishment in children aim at equality?6
Fine motor skills during early childhood predict visuospatial deductive reasoning in adolescence.6
Auditory and visual category learning in children and adults.6
Daily skin-to-skin contact and crying and sleeping in healthy full-term infants: A randomized controlled trial.6
Early bilingualism predicts enhanced later foreign language learning in secondary school.6
Adolescents view social exclusion based on social class as more wrong than do children.6
Parsing alcohol-dependent mothers’ insensitivity to child distress: Longitudinal links with children’s affective and anxiety problems.6
Stereotype threat effects on Italian girls’ mathematics performance: A failure to replicate.6
Adolescents’ psychological adjustment during challenging times: The role of mothers’, fathers’, and adolescents’ ratings of parental warmth.6
Disentangling the interplay of the sense of belonging and institutional channels in individuals’ educational trajectories.6
Lexico-semantic structure in vocabulary and its links to lexical processing in toddlerhood and language outcomes at age three.6
A longitudinal investigation of the happy victimizer tendency in childhood: A matter of control or care?6
Contextual variation in language input to children: A naturalistic approach.6
Adolescents’ ethnic-racial centrality moderates effect of school-based intervention on ethnic-racial identity exploration.6
The origins of dance: Characterizing the development of infants’ earliest dance behavior.6
Mothers and friends as listeners for adolescent anger narration: Distinct developmental affordances.6
Sleep electroencephalogram (EEG) oscillations and associated memory processing during childhood and early adolescence.6
The effect of the NoTrap! Antibullying program on ethnic victimization: When the peer educators’ immigrant status matters.6
Developmental changes in phonological and semantic priming effects in Spanish-speaking toddlers.6
Profiles of family-based social experiences in the first 3 years predict early cognitive, behavioral, and socioemotional competencies.6
Examining transactional relations between behavioral self-regulation and social-emotional functioning during the transition to kindergarten.5
Maternal mobile phone use during mother–child interactions interferes with the process of establishing joint attention.5
Be(com)ing social: Daily-life social interactions and parental bonding.5
Do children selectively trust leaders and prosocial agents in an economic exchange?5
Parents’ math anxiety and their controlling and autonomy-supportive involvement in children’s math learning: Implications for children’s math achievement.5
Development of shyness across adolescence: Reactivity, regulation, or both?5
Racial discrimination predicts depressive symptoms throughout adolescence among Black youth.5
Early maternal language input and classroom instructional quality in relation to children’s literacy trajectories from pre-kindergarten through fifth grade.5
How weird is the development of children’s gratitude in the United States? Cross-cultural comparisons.5
Executive functions, motivation, and children’s academic development in Côte d’Ivoire.5
The first 12.5 years of parenthood: A latent trait-state occasion model of the longitudinal association between maternal distress and child internalizing and externalizing problems.5
Early grammatical marking development in Mandarin-speaking toddlers.5
Socioeconomic status differences in children’s affective decision-making: The role of awareness in the Children’s Gambling Task.5
From integers to fractions: The role of analogy in developing a coherent understanding of proportional magnitude.5
Children flexibly compare their confidence within and across perceptual domains.5
Children expect others to prefer handmade items.5
Influences of bilingualism and developmental language disorder on how children learn and process words.5
Longitudinal interrelations between nonword repetition and vocabulary from age three to five: Evidence for within-child processes?5
Friends’ discussions of interpersonal and noninterpersonal problems during early and middle adolescence: Associations with co-rumination.5
Effects of incidental reminders on prospective memory in children.5
Children’s biased preference for information about in- and out-groups.5
The effect of older sibling, postnatal maternal stress, and household factors on language development in two- to four-year-old children.5
Striking a new path to study the adaptation processes of immigrant adolescents: Changes in language use and family interactions.5
Language development in children of clinically depressed mothers in remission: Early experience effects.5
An in-laboratory stressor reveals unique genetic variation in child cortisol output.5
Gender differences in cognitive development in cohorts of young, middle, and older adulthood over 12 years.5
The role of psychological factors and institutional channels in predicting the attainment of postsecondary goals.5
Children prefer natural food, too.5
Identity processes and identity content valences: Examining bidirectionality.5
Automaticity as an independent trait in predicting reading outcomes in middle-school.5
Why do children and adults think other people punish?5
The cognitive costs and advantages of children’s exposure to parental relationship instability: Testing an evolutionary-developmental hypothesis.5
Paternal mind-mindedness and children’s academic achievement: Investigating developmental processes.5
The stability of early developing attentional bias for faces and fear from 8 to 30 and 60 months in the FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study.5
Longitudinal relations between skin tone and self-esteem in African American girls.5
Longitudinal pathways of numerical abilities in preschool: Cognitive and environmental correlates and relation to primary school mathematics achievement.4
What could have been done? Counterfactual alternatives to negative outcomes generated by religious and secular children.4
Family dynamics and adjustment across Latino/a students’ transition to college: Disentangling within- and between-person reciprocal associations.4
A meta-analysis on the correlations between statistical learning, language, and reading outcomes.4
Cognitive reflection and authoritarianism relate to how parents respond to children’s science questions.4
Does stress predict the development of internalizing symptoms in middle childhood? An examination of additive, mediated, and moderated effects of early family stress, daily interpersonal stress, and p4
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