Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Experimental Child Psychology is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
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Longitudinal associations between parental mathematics anxiety and attitudes and young children’s mathematics attainment35
No transfer effect of a fraction number line game on fraction understanding or fraction arithmetic: A randomized controlled trial30
Competence-based helping: Children’s consideration of need when providing others with help30
Poor conceptual knowledge in the food domain and food rejection dispositions in 3- to 7-year-old children27
Comparing motor imagery and verbal rehearsal strategies in children’s ability to follow spoken instructions21
Targeted self-regulation interventions in low-income children: Clinical trial results and implications for health behavior change19
Can a robot teach me that? Children’s ability to imitate robots19
Adolescent girls’ physiological reactivity to real-world peer feedback: A pilot study to validate a Peer Expressed Emotion task19
Stress and working memory in children and adolescents: Insights from a multisystem approach18
The coin that is most current is flattery? Stability and discontinuity of false praise-telling from 5 to 7 years of life18
Linking young children’s teaching to their reasoning of mental states: Evidence from Singapore18
The development of visuotactile congruency effects for sequences of events18
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How do distracting events influence children’s arithmetic performance?17
Evaluations of epistemic and practical reasons for belief in a predominantly White U.S. sample of preschoolers17
Children’s ability to recognize their parent’s face improves with age17
Examining the role of external language support and children’s own language use in spatial development16
Investigating the links between parent–child interactions and context-specific electroencephalography asymmetry: Neurophysiology behind a frustrating task16
The role of infant attention and parental sensitivity in infant cognitive development in the Netherlands and China16
Initial interactions matter: Warm-up play affects 2-year-olds’ cooperative ability with an unfamiliar same-aged peer16
Teacher–child relational conflict and maladaptive social behaviors: The moderating role of children’s values15
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What do children’s errors tell us about the strategies used during a word inferencing task?15
Auditory hindsight bias in school-age children15
Cognitive processes associated with working memory in children with developmental language disorder14
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Longitudinal association between children’s mastery motivation and cognitive school readiness: Executive functioning and social–emotional competence as potential mediators14
Combining forces for causal reasoning: Children’s predictions about physical interactions14
School-aged children with higher anxiety symptoms show greater correspondence between subjective negative emotions and autonomic arousal13
An experimental task to measure preschool children’s frustration induced by having to wait unexpectedly: The role of sensitivity to delay and culture13
Longer looks for language: Novel labels lengthen fixation duration for 2-year-old children13
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Preschoolers ask questions about unknown words on video chat and in live interactions at similar rates13
Racial categorization and intergroup perception in preschool children: A focus on group membership and group size in the French context12
Explore versus store: Children strategically trade off reliance on exploration versus working memory during a complex task12
The effect of response-to-stimulus interval on children’s implicit sequence learning12
Children’s comparison of different-length numbers: Managing different attributes in multidigit number processing12
Attachment and prosocial behavior in middle childhood: The role of emotion regulation12
In the presence and absence of conflicting testimony, children’s selective trust in the in-group informant in moral judgment and knowledge access12
Heuristic strategy of intuitive statistical inferences in 7- to 10-year-old children12
Maternal control and children’s inhibitory control in China: The role of child exuberance and parenting contexts12
Children’s expectations about the stability of others’ knowledge and preference states12
The successful use of a search strategy improves with visuospatial working memory in 2- to 4.5-year-olds11
The development of oculomotor suppression of salient distractors in children11
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Find extra options or reason badly: An investigation of children’s reasoning with incompatibility statements11
Investigating belief understanding in children in a nonverbal ambiguous displacement and communication setting11
Practice schedule and testing per se affect children’s transfer abilities in a grapho-motor task11
Rethinking attention in time: Expectancy violations reconcile contradictory developmental evidence11
“Dividing the labor”: Lexical verbs and the linguistic encoding of physical support in 2- to 4.5-year-old children11
Infants’ attention during cross-situational word learning: Environmental variability promotes novelty preference11
Attentional blink in infants under 7 months11
Fine-grained differences in gender-cue strength affect predictive processing in children: Cross-linguistic evidence from Russian and Bulgarian11
The roots of compassion in early childhood: Relationships between theory of mind and attachment representations with empathic concern and prosocial behavior11
Effects of advice on experienced-based learning in adolescents and adults11
Brain bases of morphological awareness and longitudinal word reading outcomes10
The process of learning the designed actions of toys10
Academic cheating in early childhood: Role of age, gender, personality, and self-efficacy10
Children’s consideration of motivation in evaluations of socially (un)mindful actions10
Talk outside the box: Parents’ decontextualized language during preschool years relates to child numeracy and literacy skills in middle childhood10
Mind the suffix: Pseudoword processing in children and adults10
Minority- and majority-status bystander reactions to, and reasoning about, intergroup social exclusion10
Working memory development in different modalities in children and young adults10
The unique contributions of day and night sleep to infant motor problem solving10
Longitudinal relations between self-regulatory skills and mathematics achievement in early elementary school children from Chinese American immigrant families10
What children’s number naming errors tell us about early understanding of multidigit numbers10
Prosocial lying in children between 4 and 11 years of age: The role of emotional understanding and empathy10
Effects of test difficulty messaging on academic cheating among middle school children10
Priming third-party ostracism does not lead to increased affiliation in three Serbian communities10
Science with Duplo: Multilevel goal management in preschoolers’ toy house constructions9
Timing storytime to maximize children’s ability to retain new vocabulary9
Executive function and mathematics in preschool children: Training and transfer effects9
Visual attention and reading: A test of their relation across paradigms9
Altered development of face recognition among infants born amid the COVID-19 pandemic9
Predictive factors of reading in children with developmental language disorder9
The impact of positive and adverse childhood experiences on social connectedness in young adults9
Putting the pieces together: Cognitive correlates of self-derivation of new knowledge in elementary school classrooms9
Differential effects of mindfulness meditation and cognitive training on cool and hot inhibitory control in children and adolescents9
Unveiling neurodevelopmental changes in multisensory integration while controlling attention9
Operational momentum during children’s approximate arithmetic relates to symbolic math skills and space–magnitude association9
Age-related changes in how 5- to 8-year-old children use and execute finger-based strategies in arithmetic9
The roles of mathematical language and emergent literacy skills in the longitudinal prediction of specific early numeracy skills9
One versus many: Multiple examples in word learning9
Investigating the effectiveness of fantasy stories for teaching scientific principles9
Infants’ selective imitation of a transitive agent and an intransitive agent9
How do phonological awareness, rapid automatized naming, and vocabulary contribute to early numeracy and print knowledge of Filipino children?9
Association of screen-based sedentary behavior with executive function in school-aged children: A functional near-infrared spectroscopy study9
Preschoolers’ learning of information from fantastical narrative versus expository books9
Mathematics anxiety and math achievement in primary school children: Testing different theoretical accounts9
Separable effects of the approximate number system, symbolic number knowledge, and number ordering ability on early arithmetic development8
The extended development of mapping spatial demonstratives onto space8
Multisensory integration and maternal sensitivity are related to each other and predictive of expressive vocabulary in 24-month-olds8
Cognitive processes that underlie mathematically gifted emergent bilinguals8
Karate Kata training: A promising intervention for behavioral problems in elementary school children8
Hand size representation in healthy children and young adults8
Infants’ short-term memory for consonant–vowel syllables8
Finger counting to relieve working memory in children with developmental coordination disorder: Insights from behavioral and three-dimensional motion analyses8
Attentional capture in goal-directed action during childhood, adolescence, and early adulthood8
Continuity in false belief understanding from 33 to 52 months of age8
Expressions of positive and negative shyness in preschool-age children: Temperamental correlates and visual attention to emotions8
We know that we don’t know: Children’s understanding of common ignorance in a coordination game8
Children’s evaluations of culturally diverse lunchbox foods8
Joint attention episodes during interactions with fathers but not mothers at age 2 years is associated with expressive language at 3 years8
Relationships among age, socioeconomic status, and distractibility in preschoolers as assessed by the Competitive Attention Test7
Preschoolers’ competence to use advice in everyday decision contexts7
When does it pay to follow the crowd? Children optimize imitation of causally irrelevant actions performed by a majority7
The development of digital ownership in children7
Culturally and linguistically diverse children’s retention of spoken narratives encoded in quiet and in babble noise7
Out of sight, not out of mind: New pupillometric evidence on object permanence in a sample of 10- and 12-month-old German infants7
The effect of narrative coherence and visual salience on children’s and adults’ gaze while watching video7
Social and communicative not a prerequisite: Preverbal infants learn an abstract rule only from congruent audiovisual dynamic pitch–height patterns7
Influence of causal language on causal understanding: A comparison between Swiss German and Turkish7
The good, the rich, and the powerful: How young children compensate victims of moral transgressions depending on moral character, wealth, and social dominance7
Cool and hot effortful control moderate how parenting predicts child internalization in Chinese families7
Birth order moderates the association between adverse childhood experiences and externalizing behavior symptoms in adolescence7
Children’s judgments of interventions against norm violations: COVID-19 as a naturalistic case study7
Math anxiety affects females’ vocational interests7
Exploring factors influencing young children’s learning from storybooks: Interactive and multimedia features7
Could it? Should it? Cognitive reflection facilitates children’s reasoning about possibility and permissibility7
“I’ll remember everything no matter what!”: The role of metacognitive abilities in the development of young children’s prospective memory7
Perspective matters in goal-predictive gaze shifts during action observation: Results from 6-, 9-, and 12-month-olds and adults7
Attention–language interface in Multilingual Assessment instrument for Narratives7
The influence of language on the formation of number concepts: Evidence from preschool children who are bilingual in English and Arabic6
Cross-linguistic relations of morphological awareness between Korean and English to language and reading skills for Korean adolescents6
What motivates early lies? Deception in 2½- to 5-year-olds6
Ire and punishment: Incidental anger and costly punishment in children, adolescents, and adults6
Are facet-specific task trainings efficient in improving children’s executive functions and why (they might not be)? A multi-facet latent change score approach6
The role of affective touch in modulating emotion processing among preschool children6
Cognitive stimulation of executive functions through computational thinking6
Children’s use of reasoning by exclusion to infer objects’ identities in working memory6
A daytime nap combined with nighttime sleep promotes learning in toddlers6
Intuitive biological thinking in Chinese 8th graders6
Preschool emergent literacy skills as predictors of reading and spelling in Grade 2 and the role of migration background in Germany6
Recollection contributes to children’s reading comprehension: Using the process dissociation procedure in a working memory updating task6
Subtraction by addition in young multi-digit subtraction learners: A choice/no-choice study6
Contribution of orthography to vocabulary acquisition in a second language: Evidence of an early word-learning advantage in elementary-school children6
The effects of explicit morphological analysis instruction in early elementary Spanish speakers6
The effect of object similarity and alignment of examples on children’s learning and transfer from picture books6
Imagining the future improves saving in preschoolers6
Does preschool children’s self-regulation moderate the impacts of instructional activities? Evidence from a randomized intervention study6
Early rapid naming longitudinally predicts shared variance in reading and arithmetic fluency6
Exploring the perception of stress in childhood and early adolescence6
Disentangling language status and country-of-origin explanations of the bilingual advantage in preschoolers6
Categories convey prescriptive information across domains and development6
The role of metalinguistic awareness and character properties in early Chinese reading6
Cognitive flexibility and parental education differentially predict implicit and explicit racial biases in bilingual children6
A cross-cultural comparison of the relation between children’s moral standards of honesty and their lie-telling behavior6
Children’s developing ability to recognize deceptive use of true information6
Dragging but not tapping promotes preschoolers’ numerical estimating with touchscreens6
Everyday interactions support toddlers’ learning of conventional actions on artifacts6
Episodic foresight, episodic memory, and executive functions in children engaged with Child Protective Services: The role of cumulative risk6
Corrigendum to “When do preschoolers learn specific mathematics skills? Mapping the development of early numeracy knowledge”. [J. Exp. Child Psychol. 195 (2020) 104846]6
Are students’ math and verbal motivational beliefs malleable? The role of praise in dimensional comparisons6
Schadenfreude or empathy? Children’s emotional responses to the physical pain and pleasure of prosocial and antisocial others6
The development of processing second-order spatial relations of faces in Chinese preschoolers6
The discrimination of expressions in facial movements by infants: A study with point-light displays6
Linking early maternal input during shared reading to later theory of mind through receptive language and executive function: A within- and between-family design6
Object labeling activates young children’s scale errors at an early stage of verb vocabulary growth6
Preference matters: Knowledge of beneficiary’s preference influences children’s evaluations of the act of leaving a choice for others6
Development of the bodily self: Effects of visuomotor synchrony and visual appearance on virtual embodiment in children and adults6
The role of truth and bias in parents’ judgments of children’s science interests6
Hearts, flowers, and fruits: All children need to reveal their post-error slowing6
Cheating in childhood: Exploring the link between parental reports of problem behaviors and dishonesty on simulated academic tests6
Developmental trajectories of motor imagery in relation to physical fitness in children aged 7 to 14 years: A 1-year follow-up study6
Neural processing of self-produced and externally generated events in 3-month-old infants6
Toddlers' expectations of corporal third-party punishments against the non-defender puppet5
Multiple influences of working memory capacity on number comprehension: The interplay with metacognition and number-specific prerequisites5
Spreading the game: An experimental study on the link between children’s overimitation and their adoption, transmission, and modification of conventional information5
Developing mental number line games to improve young children’s number knowledge and basic arithmetic skills5
Adaptive variability in children’s conceptual models of division5
Preschoolers agree to and enforce prosocial, but not selfish, sharing norms5
The role of conventionality and design in children’s function judgments about malfunctioning artifacts5
Children’s and adults’ evaluations of self-enhancement and self-deprecation depend on the usual performance of the self-presenter5
Phonological decoding and morpho-orthographic decomposition: Complementary routes during learning to read5
Variation in pedagogy affects overimitation in children and adolescents5
Determining social power: Do Chinese preschoolers integrate verbal and nonverbal cues?5
The ontogeny of efficient second-order action planning: The developing interplay of controlled and habitual processes in goal-directed actions5
The role of semantic similarity in verb learning events: Vocabulary-related changes across early development5
Attention to intentional versus incidental pointing gestures in young autistic children: An eye-tracking study5
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A developmental perspective on morphological processing in the flankers task5
“I know it’s complicated”: Children detect relevant information about object complexity5
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Playing hide and seek: Contextual regularity learning develops between 3 and 5 years of age5
Beyond empathy: Cognitive capabilities increase or curb altruism in middle childhood5
Motor constraints on infant search: The impact of reaching around a barrier on search performance5
Preschoolers negatively evaluate conventional norm violations in pretend play5
Social cognition and trust: Exploring the role of theory of mind and hostile attribution bias in children’s skepticism of inaccurate informants5
Does extended experience with other-race nannies predict racial bias in the preschool years?5
Exploring the development of attentional set shifting in young children with a novel Intradimensional/Extradimensional shift task5
Majority language skill, not measures of bilingualism, predicts executive attention in bilingual children5
Trajectories of behavioral avoidance in real time: Associations with temperament and physiological dysregulation in preschoolers5
Children’s science vocabulary uniquely predicts individual differences in science knowledge5
Learning faces from variability: Four- and five-year-olds differ from older children and adults5
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Touch-and-feel features in “first words” picture books hinder infants’ word learning5
Do preschoolers trust a competent robot pointer?5
Exploring audiovisual speech perception in monolingual and bilingual children in Uzbekistan5
Why do children comply with parental restrictions in the personal domain?5
Do demand characteristics contribute to minimal ingroup preferences?5
The development of simple addition problem solving in children: Reliance on automatized counting or memory retrieval depends on both expertise and problem size5
Procedural (in)justice in children: Children choose procedures that favor their ingroup5
Three- and four-year-old children represent mutually exclusive possible identities4
Turkish- and English-speaking 3-year-old children are sensitive to the evidential strength of claims when revising their beliefs4
Children weigh internet inaccuracy when trusting in online information4
The Early Motor Questionnaire facilitates the remote assessment of normative motor development in infancy and toddlerhood4
Executive functions and problem-solving—The contribution of inhibition, working memory, and cognitive flexibility to science problem-solving performance in elementary school students4
Blurred boundaries between us and them: Do young children affiliate with outgroup members with shared preferences?4
The relationship between math anxiety and math performance: The moderating role of visuospatial working memory4
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Is silence golden? A pilot study exploring associations between children’s language environment and their language skills in Estonian-speaking families4
The development of the Poggendorff illusion in typically developing children4
Beyond enjoyment: Young children consider the normative goodness of activity engagement when attributing happiness4
Promoting prosocial behavior in toddlerhood: A conversation-based intervention at nursery4
Rejecting ingroup loyalty for the truth: Children’s and adolescents’ evaluations of deviant peers within a misinformation intergroup context4
The efficacy of manipulatives versus fingers in supporting young children’s addition skills4
Early skills that predict English reading ability: A longitudinal study of bilingual children from 5 to 10 years4
Monocular gap stereopsis in infants4
What do children value more in a collaborator—Problem-solving capacity or fair sharing?4
Examining the relationship between psychosocial adversity and inhibitory control: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study of children growing up in extreme poverty4
Finger use mirroring young children’s ways of experiencing numbers4
Effects of semantic reinforcement, semantic discrimination, and affix frequency on new word learning in skilled and less skilled readers in Grades 6 to 124
Developmental trends in children’s source and destination memory4
Space modulates cross-domain transfer of abstract rules in infants4
How to turn that frown upside down: Children make use of a listener’s facial cues to detect and (attempt to) repair miscommunication4
The effect of face mask wearing on language processing and emotion recognition in young children4
Exploring the development of high-level contributions to body representation using the rubber hand illusion and the monkey hand illusion4
Children endorse deterrence motivations for third-party punishment but derive higher enjoyment from compensating victims4
A longitudinal study of the role of vocabulary size in priming effects in early childhood4
The contextual cueing effect disappears during joint search in preschool children4
Fear modulates parental orienting during childhood and adolescence4
Proud to help when i should: Children’s positive emotions following sharing decisions with a needy versus not-needy other4
Parenting relationships as a moderator of how socioeconomic status and household chaos relate to children’s cognitive and socioemotional skills4
The near and far transfer effects of computerized working memory training in typically developing preschool children: Evidence from event-related potentials4
Do children need counting principle knowledge to count on their fingers?4
Thinking about thinking: A longitudinal investigation linking developments in metacognition, inhibitory control, and theory of mind4
Negative mood induction in children: An examination across mood, physiological, and cognitive variables4
Friendship is more than strategic reciprocity: Preschoolers’ selective sharing with friends cannot be reduced to strategic concerns4
“Who will share with me?”: Preschoolers rely on their friends more than on their nonfriends to share with them4
Extended difficulties with counterfactuals persist in reasoning with false beliefs: Evidence for teleology-in-perspective4
Five-year-old children show cooperative preferences for faces with white sclera4
Power grabbed or granted: Children’s allocation of resources in social power situations4
Reading fiction and reading minds in early adolescence: A longitudinal study4
The home numeracy environment and children’s math skills: The moderating role of parents’ math anxiety4
Executive functioning skills and (low) math achievement in primary and secondary school4
A bird’s-eye view of research practices in mathematical cognition, learning, and instruction: Reimagining the status quo4
Omission bias in children’s and adults’ moral judgments of lies4
Children’s confidence on mathematical equivalence and fraction problems4
Longitudinal development of cognitive mapping from childhood to adolescence4
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