Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Experimental Child Psychology is 2. 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
Why do early mathematics skills predict later mathematics and reading achievement? The role of executive function35
Emotion expression and regulation in three cultures: Chinese, Japanese, and American preschoolers’ reactions to disappointment31
Language difficulties are a shared risk factor for both reading disorder and mathematics disorder30
Long-term effects of the home literacy environment on reading development: Familial risk for dyslexia as a moderator30
Infants’ intention-based evaluations of distributive actions27
Museum program design supports parent–child engineering talk during tinkering and reminiscing22
Math anxiety affects females’ vocational interests21
“Sure I’ll help—I’ve just been sitting around doing nothing at school all day”: Cognitive flexibility and child irony interpretation20
Facilitating young children’s numeracy talk in play: The role of parent prompts19
The mediating effect of language on the development of cognitive and affective theory of mind19
Mathematics, executive functioning, and visual–spatial skills in Chinese kindergarten children: Examining the bidirectionality19
Parents’ math anxiety and mathematics performance of pre-kindergarten children19
When beliefs matter most: Examining children’s math achievement in the context of parental math anxiety19
Why do children punish? Fair outcomes matter more than intent in children’s second- and third-party punishment18
Parental listening when adolescents self-disclose: A preregistered experimental study18
The effect of face mask wearing on language processing and emotion recognition in young children18
Pretending with realistic and fantastical stories facilitates executive function in 3-year-old children18
The continuous impact of cognitive flexibility on the development of emotion understanding in children aged 4 and 5 years: A longitudinal study18
Tracking the evolution of orthographic expectancies over building visual experience17
Minority- and majority-status bystander reactions to, and reasoning about, intergroup social exclusion17
Bilingual children’s visual attention while reading digital picture books and story retelling17
The development of grit and growth mindset in Chinese children17
Development of motor planning in children: Disentangling elements of the planning process16
Human children, but not great apes, become socially closer by sharing an experience in common ground16
Development of the bodily self: Effects of visuomotor synchrony and visual appearance on virtual embodiment in children and adults16
Reciprocal effects of morphological awareness, vocabulary knowledge, and word reading: A cross-lagged panel analysis in Chinese16
Listening effort and fatigue in native and non-native primary school children16
Morphological awareness and reading comprehension: Differential mediation mechanisms in native English speakers, fluent English learners, and limited English learners16
Masked identity priming reflects an encoding advantage in developing readers16
The Magic School Bus dilemma: How fantasy affects children’s learning from stories16
Examining the impact of children’s exploration behaviors on creativity16
Measuring children’s auditory statistical learning via serial recall16
Finding patterns in objects and numbers: Repeating patterning in pre-K predicts kindergarten mathematics knowledge15
Fostering early numerical competencies by playing conventional board games15
The influence of friendship and merit on children’s resource allocation in three societies15
An East–West contrast in executive function: Measurement invariance of computerized tasks in school-aged children and adolescents15
Visual-spatial skills contribute to Chinese reading and arithmetic for different reasons: A three-wave longitudinal study15
Patterns of growth in executive functioning during school years: Contributions of early mother–child attachment security and maternal autonomy support15
Children’s discrete proportional reasoning is related to inhibitory control and enhanced by priming continuous representations14
Common knowledge that help is needed increases helping behavior in children14
The importance of visuospatial abilities for verbal number skills in preschool: Adding spatial language to the equation14
A daytime nap combined with nighttime sleep promotes learning in toddlers14
Cognition in context: Validating group-based executive function assessments in young children14
Toddlers' expectations of corporal third-party punishments against the non-defender puppet14
Theory of mind, mental state talk, and discourse comprehension: Theory of mind process is more important for narrative comprehension than for informational text comprehension13
The benefits of immature cognitive control: How distributed attention guards against learning traps13
Separable effects of the approximate number system, symbolic number knowledge, and number ordering ability on early arithmetic development13
Measurement of aggressive behavior in early childhood: A critical analysis using five informants13
Prosocial lying in children between 4 and 11 years of age: The role of emotional understanding and empathy13
Preverbal infants’ reactions to third-party punishments and rewards delivered toward fair and unfair agents13
How do phonological awareness, rapid automatized naming, and vocabulary contribute to early numeracy and print knowledge of Filipino children?13
Executive functions in deaf and hearing children: The mediating role of language skills in inhibitory control12
Approximate multiplication in young children prior to multiplication instruction12
Promoting prosocial behavior in toddlerhood: A conversation-based intervention at nursery12
Young children’s metacognitive awareness of confounded evidence12
Stressful life events and children’s socioemotional difficulties: Conditional indirect effects of resilience and executive function12
Friendship is more than strategic reciprocity: Preschoolers’ selective sharing with friends cannot be reduced to strategic concerns12
The relationship of working memory and inhibition with different number knowledge skills in preschool children12
How children and adults value different animal lives12
Ire and punishment: Incidental anger and costly punishment in children, adolescents, and adults12
Investigating the effectiveness of fantasy stories for teaching scientific principles12
Material and relational asymmetry: The role of receivers’ wealth and power status in children’s resource allocation11
The cognitive profiles for different samples of mathematical learning difficulties and their similarity to typical development: Evidence from a longitudinal study11
(Peer) Group influence on children’s prosocial and antisocial behavior11
Developmental changes in size effects for simple tie and non-tie addition problems in 6- to 12-year-old children and adults11
The effect of object similarity and alignment of examples on children’s learning and transfer from picture books11
Associations among response inhibition, motivational beliefs, and task persistence in early elementary school11
Out of the empirical box: A mixed-methods study of tool innovation among Congolese BaYaka forager and Bondongo fisher–farmer children11
Improving prospective memory in school-aged children: Effects of future thinking and performance predictions11
Boys’ visuospatial abilities compensate for their relatively poor in-class attentive behavior in learning mathematics11
Hand size representation in healthy children and young adults11
Young children update their trust in an informant’s claim when experience tells them otherwise11
Orthographic learning via self-teaching in Chinese: The roles of phonological recoding, context, and phonetic and semantic radicals11
Young children’s developing ability to integrate gestural and emotional cues11
Children’s spatial–numerical associations on horizontal, vertical, and sagittal axes11
Cross-notation knowledge of fractions and decimals11
The relation of visual attention span with serial and discrete rapid automatized naming and reading10
Walking another pathway: The inclusion of patterning in the pathways to mathematics model10
What’s in a question? Parents’ question use in dyadic interactions and the relation to preschool-aged children’s math abilities10
Sensitivity to race in language comprehension in monolingual and bilingual infants10
Visual attention and reading: A test of their relation across paradigms10
Why do children show racial biases in their resource allocation decisions?10
The dynamics of morphological processing in developing readers: A cross-linguistic masked priming study10
Children cannot ignore what they hear: Incongruent emotional information leads to an auditory dominance in children10
Proud to help when i should: Children’s positive emotions following sharing decisions with a needy versus not-needy other10
The temporal structure of naming events differentially affects children’s and adults’ cross-situational word learning10
Fairness takes time: Development of cooperative decision making in fairness context10
Reading ability in children relates to rhythm perception across modalities10
Helping as prosocial practice: Longitudinal relations among children’s shyness, helping behavior, and empathic response10
Longitudinal relations between the approximate number system and symbolic number skills in preschool children10
Preschoolers agree to and enforce prosocial, but not selfish, sharing norms10
Poor conceptual knowledge in the food domain and food rejection dispositions in 3- to 7-year-old children10
Receptive and expressive language ability differentially support symbolic understanding over time: Picture comprehension in late talking and typically developing children9
Emotional awareness, empathy, and generosity in high-risk youths9
The man and the machine: Do children learn from and transmit tool-use knowledge acquired from a robot in ways that are comparable to a human model?9
The home numeracy environment and children’s math skills: The moderating role of parents’ math anxiety9
Relations between fantasy and transfer of learning from storybooks9
Preschoolers’ learning of information from fantastical narrative versus expository books9
Children are more forgiving of accidental harms across development9
Contextual diversity favors the learning of new words in children regardless of their comprehension skills9
How does rapid automatized naming influence orthographic knowledge?9
The number line estimation task is a valid tool for assessing mathematical achievement: A population-level study with 6484 Luxembourgish ninth-graders9
Power grabbed or granted: Children’s allocation of resources in social power situations9
Effects of violent video games on players’ and observers’ aggressive cognitions and aggressive behaviors9
Competence-based helping: Children’s consideration of need when providing others with help9
Curiosity enhances incidental object encoding in 8-month-old infants9
Detailed bugs or bugging details? The influence of perceptual richness across elementary school years9
Early implicit–explicit discrepancies in self-esteem as correlates of childhood depressive symptoms9
Toddlers exploit referential and syntactic cues to flexibly adapt their interpretation of novel verb meanings9
Space modulates cross-domain transfer of abstract rules in infants9
Categories convey prescriptive information across domains and development9
Two-year-olds use past memories to accomplish novel goals9
Intraindividual reaction time variability as an index of attentional control acts as a moderator of the longitudinal relationships between marital quality and children’s externalizing problems8
Effects of stress on 6- and 7-year-old children’s emotional memory differs by gender8
When novelty prevails on familiarity: Visual biases for child versus infant faces in 3.5- to 12-month-olds8
Individual differences in gesture interpretation predict children’s propensity to pick a gesturer as a good informant8
Bidirectional effects between expressive regulatory abilities and peer acceptance among Chinese adolescents8
Predicting mathematics achievement from subdomains of early number competence: Differences by grade and achievement level8
Timing storytime to maximize children’s ability to retain new vocabulary8
Working memory growth predicts mathematical problem-solving growth among emergent bilingual children8
When correlation equals causation: A behavioral and computational account of second-order correlation learning in children8
Preschoolers learn new moral and conventional norms from direct experiences8
Who’s more generous than me? Children’s self-evaluation of their prosociality in normative social comparisons8
First impressions of child faces: Facial trustworthiness influences adults’ interpretations of children’s behavior in ambiguous situations8
Do I know what they know? Linking metacognition, theory of mind, and selective social learning8
“I’ll remember everything no matter what!”: The role of metacognitive abilities in the development of young children’s prospective memory8
The link between mind wandering and learning in children8
Developmental trajectories of global motion and global form perception from 4 years to adulthood8
Social context shapes neural processing of others’ actions in 9-month-old infants8
Prephonological spelling and its connections with later word reading and spelling performance8
Preschoolers’ choices of television characters as sources of information: Effects of character type, format, and topic domain8
Extended difficulties with counterfactuals persist in reasoning with false beliefs: Evidence for teleology-in-perspective8
When one size does not fit all: A latent profile analysis of low-income preschoolers’ math skills7
Rapport building with adolescents to enhance reporting and disclosure7
Expressions of positive and negative shyness in preschool-age children: Temperamental correlates and visual attention to emotions7
Parenting style and the cognitive development of preschool-aged children: Evidence from rural China7
Development of evaluative and incidental self-reference effects in childhood7
Relations among spatial skills, number line estimation, and exact and approximate calculation in young children7
How economic inequality affects prosocial behavior in children across development7
Individual differences in executive function and learning: The role of knowledge type and conflict with prior knowledge7
Subtraction by addition in young multi-digit subtraction learners: A choice/no-choice study7
The world within: Children are sensitive to internal complexity cues7
Preschool children’s evaluations of their own unjustified requests7
Preschoolers are capable of fine-grained implicit cognitive control: Evidence from development of the context-specific proportion congruency effect7
Five-month-old infants attribute inferences based on general knowledge to agents7
Effects of “we”-framing on young children’s commitment, sharing, and helping7
The relationship between math anxiety and math performance: The moderating role of visuospatial working memory7
Disentangling language status and country-of-origin explanations of the bilingual advantage in preschoolers7
Executive function and mathematics in preschool children: Training and transfer effects7
Twenty-four or four-and-twenty: Language modulates cross-modal matching for multidigit numbers in children and adults7
Alice in Wonderland: The effects of body size and movement on children’s size perception and body representation in virtual reality7
Four- and 5-year-old children adapt to the reliability of conflicting sources of information to learn novel words7
The role of working memory updating, inhibition, fluid intelligence, and reading comprehension in explaining differences between consistent and inconsistent arithmetic word-problem-solving performance7
Children’s understanding of friendship formation caused by gossip6
Mind wandering and executive dysfunction predict children’s performance in the metronome response task6
The role of metalinguistic awareness and character properties in early Chinese reading6
Associations among socioeconomic status and preschool-aged children’s, number skills, and spatial skills: The role of executive function6
Lumping and splitting: Developmental changes in the structure of children’s semantic networks6
Cognitive flexibility and parental education differentially predict implicit and explicit racial biases in bilingual children6
Can a robot teach me that? Children’s ability to imitate robots6
Multifaceted assessment of children’s inversion understanding6
Priming third-party ostracism does not lead to increased affiliation in three Serbian communities6
Children use race to infer who is “in charge”6
Multisensory integration and maternal sensitivity are related to each other and predictive of expressive vocabulary in 24-month-olds6
Children’s reasoning about the efficiency of others’ actions: The development of rational action prediction6
Number line development of Chilean children from preschool to the end of kindergarten6
Developmental improvements in talker recognition are specific to the native language6
Visual and haptic responses as measures of word comprehension and speed of processing in toddlers: Relative predictive utility6
Self-regulation and early writing: A longitudinal examination from preschool through first grade6
The animals in moral tales: Does character realism influence children’s prosocial response to stories?6
Mediated semantic priming interference in toddlers as seen through pupil dynamics6
Hearts, flowers, and fruits: All children need to reveal their post-error slowing6
Young children’s future-oriented reasoning for self and other: Effects of conflict and perspective6
Trajectories of behavioral avoidance in real time: Associations with temperament and physiological dysregulation in preschoolers6
Intuitive biological thinking in Chinese 8th graders6
Lie-telling for personal gain in children with and without externalizing behavior problems6
Comparing motor imagery and verbal rehearsal strategies in children’s ability to follow spoken instructions6
Revisiting the talker recognition advantage in bilingual infants6
Effects of test difficulty messaging on academic cheating among middle school children6
Inhibitory control and the understanding of buoyancy from childhood to adulthood6
Influence of causal language on causal understanding: A comparison between Swiss German and Turkish6
Parent–child attachment security is associated with preschoolers’ memory accuracy for emotional life events through sensitive parental reminiscing6
How do children with developmental language disorder extend novel nouns?6
Social identity and contamination: Young children are more willing to eat native contaminated foods6
Infant walking experience is related to the development of selective attention6
Two birds in the hand: Concurrent and switching cognitive flexibility in preschoolers6
Age-related changes in children’s cognitive–motor dual tasking: Evidence from a large cross-sectional sample6
Cognitive prerequisites for cumulative culture are context-dependent: Children’s potential for ratcheting depends on cue longevity6
Executive functioning skills and (low) math achievement in primary and secondary school6
Neural processing of self-produced and externally generated events in 3-month-old infants6
Science with Duplo: Multilevel goal management in preschoolers’ toy house constructions6
The link between parental mental state talk and children’s lying: An indirect effect via false belief understanding6
Practice schedule and testing per se affect children’s transfer abilities in a grapho-motor task6
Neural correlates of familiar and unfamiliar action in infancy6
The friendly fossa: The effect of anthropomorphic language on learning about unfamiliar animals through both storybooks and live animal experiences6
Fair sharing is just caring: Links between justice sensitivity and distributive behavior in middle childhood6
Moms know best?: Children’s evaluations of mothers’ unfair responses to peer conflicts6
Sustained selective attention in adolescence: Cognitive development and predictors of distractibility at school6
The effect of character similarity on children’s learning from fictional stories: The roles of race and gender6
How popularity goal and popularity status are related to observed and peer-nominated aggressive and prosocial behaviors in elementary school students6
Do embodiment and fictionality affect young children’s learning?5
Is silence golden? A pilot study exploring associations between children’s language environment and their language skills in Estonian-speaking families5
Peer tutoring of computer programming increases exploratory behavior in children5
Cognitive stimulation of executive functions through computational thinking5
The squeaky wheel gets the grease: Recipients’ responses influence children’s costly third-party punishment of unfairness5
Linking young children’s teaching to their reasoning of mental states: Evidence from Singapore5
When does it pay to follow the crowd? Children optimize imitation of causally irrelevant actions performed by a majority5
Conscience and theory of mind in children aged 4 to 7 years5
Beyond accidents: Young children’s forgiveness of third-party intentional transgressors5
Cascaded processing in naming and reading: Evidence from Chinese and Korean5
The role of context in verbal humor processing in autism5
Two-year-old children’s processing of two-word sequences occurring 19 or more times per million and their influence on subsequent word learning5
“But the poor needed it more”: Children’s judgments on procedural justice to allocate resources between two candidates equal in merit, different in need5
A longitudinal study of theory of mind and listening comprehension: Is preschool theory of mind important?5
But they weren’t being careful! Role of theory of mind in moral judgments about victim and transgressor negligence5
Five-year-old children show cooperative preferences for faces with white sclera5
Understanding relational binding in early childhood: Interacting effects of overlap and delay5
Does preschool children’s self-regulation moderate the impacts of instructional activities? Evidence from a randomized intervention study5
Cool and hot effortful control moderate how parenting predicts child internalization in Chinese families5
Martial arts enhances working memory and attention in school-aged children: A functional near-infrared spectroscopy study5
Child and caregiver executive function in trauma-exposed families: Relations with children’s behavioral and cognitive functioning5
Children’s gesture use provides insight into proportional reasoning strategies5
Effortful control moderates the relation between negative emotionality and socially appropriate behavior5
The ontogeny of selective social learning: Young children flexibly adopt majority- or payoff-based biases depending on task uncertainty5
A multidimensional evaluation of the benefits of an ecologically realistic training based on pretend play for preschoolers’ cognitive control and self-regulation: From behavior to the underlying theta5
Academic cheating interferes with learning among middle school children5
Wisconsin Card Sorting Test reveals a monitoring advantage but not a switching advantage in multilingual children5
The effect of working memory capacity and training on intertemporal decision making in children from low-socioeconomic-status families5
Disagreement, justification, and equitable moral judgments: A brief training study5
Longitudinal development of cognitive mapping from childhood to adolescence5
Reared-apart/reared-together Chinese twins and virtual twins: Evolving research program and general intelligence findings5
Children overclaim more knowledge than adults do, but for different reasons5
Putting the pieces together: Cognitive correlates of self-derivation of new knowledge in elementary school classrooms5
Problem solving flexibility across early development5
The effects of spacing and massing on children’s orthographic learning5
Self-projection in early childhood: No evidence for a common underpinning of episodic memory, episodic future thinking, theory of mind, and spatial navigation5
Optimizing imitation: Examining cognitive factors leading to imitation, overimitation, and goal emulation in preschoolers5
Individual and socioenvironmental differences in autobiographical emotional appraisal of preschoolers5
Infants’ representation of asymmetric social influence5
Race and early face-sensitive event-related potentials in children and adults5
The development of oculomotor suppression of salient distractors in children4
Operational momentum during children’s approximate arithmetic relates to symbolic math skills and space–magnitude association4
A cross-cultural comparison of the relation between children’s moral standards of honesty and their lie-telling behavior4
The role of infant attention and parental sensitivity in infant cognitive development in the Netherlands and China4
Working memory development in different modalities in children and young adults4
Exploring factors influencing young children’s learning from storybooks: Interactive and multimedia features4
Attentional capture in goal-directed action during childhood, adolescence, and early adulthood4
Stress and working memory in children and adolescents: Insights from a multisystem approach4
The unique contributions of day and night sleep to infant motor problem solving4
The process of learning the designed actions of toys4
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