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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
The development of grit and growth mindset during adolescence58
When do preschoolers learn specific mathematics skills? Mapping the development of early numeracy knowledge39
The development of social comparisons and sharing behavior across 12 countries26
Why do early mathematics skills predict later mathematics and reading achievement? The role of executive function24
Infants’ intention-based evaluations of distributive actions24
Parents’ characteristics, the home environment, and children’s numeracy skills: How are they related in low- to middle-income families in the Philippines?23
Emotion expression and regulation in three cultures: Chinese, Japanese, and American preschoolers’ reactions to disappointment23
Conceptual continuity in the development of intent-based moral judgment22
Long-term effects of the home literacy environment on reading development: Familial risk for dyslexia as a moderator21
Language difficulties are a shared risk factor for both reading disorder and mathematics disorder20
Preschoolers’ broad mathematics experiences with parents during play20
Museum program design supports parent–child engineering talk during tinkering and reminiscing20
The critical role of Arabic numeral knowledge as a longitudinal predictor of arithmetic development19
Emotion-specific vocabulary and its contribution to emotion understanding in 4- to 9-year-old children19
Individual differences in lexical processing efficiency and vocabulary in toddlers: A longitudinal investigation19
Children’s recognition of happy, sad, and angry facial expressions across emotive intensities18
Why do children punish? Fair outcomes matter more than intent in children’s second- and third-party punishment18
Paying it forward: The development and underlying mechanisms of upstream reciprocity18
Modification of hostile attribution bias reduces self-reported reactive aggressive behavior in adolescents18
Do executive functions mediate the link between socioeconomic status and numeracy skills? A cross-site comparison of Hong Kong and the United Kingdom17
Pretending with realistic and fantastical stories facilitates executive function in 3-year-old children17
Parental listening when adolescents self-disclose: A preregistered experimental study17
When beliefs matter most: Examining children’s math achievement in the context of parental math anxiety17
Prekindergarten classroom language environments and children’s vocabulary skills17
Children are sensitive to reputation when giving to both ingroup and outgroup members17
“Sure I’ll help—I’ve just been sitting around doing nothing at school all day”: Cognitive flexibility and child irony interpretation16
What mechanism underlies the rapid automatized naming–reading relation?16
Symbolic fractions elicit an analog magnitude representation in school-age children16
Mathematics, executive functioning, and visual–spatial skills in Chinese kindergarten children: Examining the bidirectionality16
Masked identity priming reflects an encoding advantage in developing readers16
Facilitating young children’s numeracy talk in play: The role of parent prompts16
Children’s theory of mind as a mechanism linking parents’ mind-mindedness in infancy with children’s conscience15
Theory of mind mediates the relations of language and domain-general cognitions to discourse comprehension15
Parental influences on child report of relational attribution biases during early childhood15
Parents’ math anxiety and mathematics performance of pre-kindergarten children15
A daytime nap combined with nighttime sleep promotes learning in toddlers14
Morphological awareness and reading comprehension: Differential mediation mechanisms in native English speakers, fluent English learners, and limited English learners14
Tracking the evolution of orthographic expectancies over building visual experience14
Visual-spatial skills contribute to Chinese reading and arithmetic for different reasons: A three-wave longitudinal study14
Cognition in context: Validating group-based executive function assessments in young children14
The continuous impact of cognitive flexibility on the development of emotion understanding in children aged 4 and 5 years: A longitudinal study14
Children’s belief in purported events: When claims reference hearsay, books, or the internet14
Cross-cultural variation in how much, but not whether, children overimitate14
Toddlers' expectations of corporal third-party punishments against the non-defender puppet14
Math anxiety affects females’ vocational interests14
Development of motor planning in children: Disentangling elements of the planning process14
Reciprocal effects of morphological awareness, vocabulary knowledge, and word reading: A cross-lagged panel analysis in Chinese14
Bilingual children’s visual attention while reading digital picture books and story retelling13
The normative status of friendship: Do young children enforce sharing with friends and appreciate reasonable partiality?13
Children’s discrete proportional reasoning is related to inhibitory control and enhanced by priming continuous representations13
The influence of friendship and merit on children’s resource allocation in three societies13
Fostering early numerical competencies by playing conventional board games13
An East–West contrast in executive function: Measurement invariance of computerized tasks in school-aged children and adolescents13
Children’s bias in appraisals of gender-variant peers13
Human children, but not great apes, become socially closer by sharing an experience in common ground13
The importance of visuospatial abilities for verbal number skills in preschool: Adding spatial language to the equation13
Minority- and majority-status bystander reactions to, and reasoning about, intergroup social exclusion13
The relationship of domain-general serial order memory and reading ability in school children with and without dyslexia12
Between- and within-person contributions of simple reaction time to executive function skills in early childhood12
Examining the impact of children’s exploration behaviors on creativity12
Measuring children’s auditory statistical learning via serial recall12
The mediating effect of language on the development of cognitive and affective theory of mind12
The Magic School Bus dilemma: How fantasy affects children’s learning from stories12
Friendship is more than strategic reciprocity: Preschoolers’ selective sharing with friends cannot be reduced to strategic concerns12
Separable effects of the approximate number system, symbolic number knowledge, and number ordering ability on early arithmetic development12
Cognitive flexibility training has direct and near transfer effects, but no far transfer effects, in preschoolers12
Working memory is a core executive function supporting dual-task locomotor performance across childhood and adolescence12
Listening effort and fatigue in native and non-native primary school children12
Prosocial lying in children between 4 and 11 years of age: The role of emotional understanding and empathy12
Self-referent encoding facilitates memory binding in young children: New insights into the self-reference effect in memory development11
Measurement of aggressive behavior in early childhood: A critical analysis using five informants11
How children and adults value different animal lives11
Patterns of growth in executive functioning during school years: Contributions of early mother–child attachment security and maternal autonomy support11
Common knowledge that help is needed increases helping behavior in children11
ABBABB or 1212: Abstract language facilitates children’s early patterning skills11
Mothers’ distancing language relates to young children’s math and literacy skills11
The interplay between cognitive control and emotional processing in children and adolescents11
Young children’s metacognitive awareness of confounded evidence11
The influence of environmental reliability in the marshmallow task: An extension study11
How many apples make a quarter? The challenge of discrete proportional formats11
Finding patterns in objects and numbers: Repeating patterning in pre-K predicts kindergarten mathematics knowledge11
Children’s spatial–numerical associations on horizontal, vertical, and sagittal axes11
Promoting prosocial behavior in toddlerhood: A conversation-based intervention at nursery11
Orthographic learning via self-teaching in Chinese: The roles of phonological recoding, context, and phonetic and semantic radicals10
Out of the empirical box: A mixed-methods study of tool innovation among Congolese BaYaka forager and Bondongo fisher–farmer children10
The development of grit and growth mindset in Chinese children10
Rhythmic priming of grammaticality judgments in children: Duration matters10
Development of the bodily self: Effects of visuomotor synchrony and visual appearance on virtual embodiment in children and adults10
Preschoolers agree to and enforce prosocial, but not selfish, sharing norms10
How do phonological awareness, rapid automatized naming, and vocabulary contribute to early numeracy and print knowledge of Filipino children?10
The dynamics of morphological processing in developing readers: A cross-linguistic masked priming study10
Preverbal infants’ reactions to third-party punishments and rewards delivered toward fair and unfair agents10
Developmental changes in size effects for simple tie and non-tie addition problems in 6- to 12-year-old children and adults10
Revisiting the double-edged sword of self-regulation: Linking shyness, attentional shifting, and social behavior in preschoolers10
Sensitivity to race in language comprehension in monolingual and bilingual infants10
Visual attention and reading: A test of their relation across paradigms10
The roles of perspective and language in children’s ability to delay gratification10
The effects of hemispheric dominance, literacy acquisition, and handedness on the development of visuospatial attention: A study in preschoolers and second graders10
Young children’s developing ability to integrate gestural and emotional cues10
Age differences in foraging and executive functions: A cross-sectional study10
Improving prospective memory in school-aged children: Effects of future thinking and performance predictions10
Individual differences in selective attention and scanning dynamics influence children’s learning from relevant non-targets in a visual search task10
Young children update their trust in an informant’s claim when experience tells them otherwise9
(Peer) Group influence on children’s prosocial and antisocial behavior9
Young children’s prosocial responses toward peers and adults in two social contexts9
Rhythm in the blood: The influence of rhythm skills on literacy development in third graders9
Relations between fantasy and transfer of learning from storybooks9
Hand size representation in healthy children and young adults9
Fairness takes time: Development of cooperative decision making in fairness context9
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
Development of scene knowledge: Evidence from explicit and implicit scene knowledge measures9
The effect of face mask wearing on language processing and emotion recognition in young children9
Investigating the effectiveness of fantasy stories for teaching scientific principles9
Why do children show racial biases in their resource allocation decisions?9
Detailed bugs or bugging details? The influence of perceptual richness across elementary school years9
Children cannot ignore what they hear: Incongruent emotional information leads to an auditory dominance in children9
Boys’ visuospatial abilities compensate for their relatively poor in-class attentive behavior in learning mathematics9
The temporal structure of naming events differentially affects children’s and adults’ cross-situational word learning9
In sickness and in filth: Developing a disdain for dirty people9
Toddlers’ costly helping in three societies8
Differences and similarities in lying frequency, moral evaluations, and beliefs about lying among children with and without conduct problems8
Space modulates cross-domain transfer of abstract rules in infants8
Age-related changes in children’s accent-based resource distribution8
Timing storytime to maximize children’s ability to retain new vocabulary8
Theory of mind, mental state talk, and discourse comprehension: Theory of mind process is more important for narrative comprehension than for informational text comprehension8
Reading ability in children relates to rhythm perception across modalities8
The effect of hunger on children’s sharing behavior and fairness preferences8
Developmental trajectories of global motion and global form perception from 4 years to adulthood8
Helping as prosocial practice: Longitudinal relations among children’s shyness, helping behavior, and empathic response8
Ire and punishment: Incidental anger and costly punishment in children, adolescents, and adults8
Categories convey prescriptive information across domains and development8
Preschoolers’ learning of information from fantastical narrative versus expository books8
Infants’ use of motion cues in object individuation processes8
Picture-evoked changes in pupil size predict learning success in children8
Paying it back and forward: The impact of experiencing and observing others’ sharing and stinginess on preschoolers’ own sharing behavior and expectations8
When correlation equals causation: A behavioral and computational account of second-order correlation learning in children8
Receptive and expressive language ability differentially support symbolic understanding over time: Picture comprehension in late talking and typically developing children8
Early implicit–explicit discrepancies in self-esteem as correlates of childhood depressive symptoms8
The effect of object similarity and alignment of examples on children’s learning and transfer from picture books8
Poor conceptual knowledge in the food domain and food rejection dispositions in 3- to 7-year-old children8
Competence-based helping: Children’s consideration of need when providing others with help8
Material and relational asymmetry: The role of receivers’ wealth and power status in children’s resource allocation8
The relation of visual attention span with serial and discrete rapid automatized naming and reading8
Observing third-party ostracism enhances facial mimicry in 30-month-olds8
The relationship of working memory and inhibition with different number knowledge skills in preschool children8
Contextual diversity favors the learning of new words in children regardless of their comprehension skills7
The role of speaker eye gaze and mutual exclusivity in novel word learning by monolingual and bilingual children7
Toddlers exploit referential and syntactic cues to flexibly adapt their interpretation of novel verb meanings7
Preschoolers’ choices of television characters as sources of information: Effects of character type, format, and topic domain7
Disentangling language status and country-of-origin explanations of the bilingual advantage in preschoolers7
Power grabbed or granted: Children’s allocation of resources in social power situations7
A model’s natural group membership affects over-imitation in 6-year-olds7
Twenty-four or four-and-twenty: Language modulates cross-modal matching for multidigit numbers in children and adults7
The cognitive profiles for different samples of mathematical learning difficulties and their similarity to typical development: Evidence from a longitudinal study7
How does rapid automatized naming influence orthographic knowledge?7
The benefits of immature cognitive control: How distributed attention guards against learning traps7
Longitudinal relations between the approximate number system and symbolic number skills in preschool children7
First impressions of child faces: Facial trustworthiness influences adults’ interpretations of children’s behavior in ambiguous situations7
Effects of violent video games on players’ and observers’ aggressive cognitions and aggressive behaviors7
Extended difficulties with counterfactuals persist in reasoning with false beliefs: Evidence for teleology-in-perspective7
A developmental investigation of the other-race categorization advantage in a multiracial population: Contrasting social categorization and perceptual expertise accounts7
Curiosity enhances incidental object encoding in 8-month-old infants7
Associations among response inhibition, motivational beliefs, and task persistence in early elementary school7
Color constancy and color term knowledge are positively related during early childhood7
Social context shapes neural processing of others’ actions in 9-month-old infants7
The number line estimation task is a valid tool for assessing mathematical achievement: A population-level study with 6484 Luxembourgish ninth-graders7
Cross-notation knowledge of fractions and decimals7
Approximate multiplication in young children prior to multiplication instruction7
Proud to help when i should: Children’s positive emotions following sharing decisions with a needy versus not-needy other7
Efficiency as a principle for social preferences in infancy7
Preschool children’s evaluations of their own unjustified requests7
Two-year-olds use past memories to accomplish novel goals7
Working memory growth predicts mathematical problem-solving growth among emergent bilingual children6
When novelty prevails on familiarity: Visual biases for child versus infant faces in 3.5- to 12-month-olds6
Preschoolers refer to direct and indirect evidence in their collaborative reasoning6
Preschoolers learn new moral and conventional norms from direct experiences6
Executive functions in deaf and hearing children: The mediating role of language skills in inhibitory control6
How economic inequality affects prosocial behavior in children across development6
What’s in a question? Parents’ question use in dyadic interactions and the relation to preschool-aged children’s math abilities6
The friendly fossa: The effect of anthropomorphic language on learning about unfamiliar animals through both storybooks and live animal experiences6
Effects of “we”-framing on young children’s commitment, sharing, and helping6
Can a robot teach me that? Children’s ability to imitate robots6
Culture and children’s reasoning about preferences and gender norms6
The role of metalinguistic awareness and character properties in early Chinese reading6
Practice schedule and testing per se affect children’s transfer abilities in a grapho-motor task6
Learning from multiple informants: Children’s response to epistemic bases for consensus judgments6
Preschoolers are capable of fine-grained implicit cognitive control: Evidence from development of the context-specific proportion congruency effect6
Parent–child attachment security is associated with preschoolers’ memory accuracy for emotional life events through sensitive parental reminiscing6
Acquiring sub-efficient and efficient variants of novel means by integrating information from multiple social models in preschoolers6
Young children and adults associate social power with indifference to others’ needs6
Individual differences in executive function and learning: The role of knowledge type and conflict with prior knowledge6
Stressful life events and children’s socioemotional difficulties: Conditional indirect effects of resilience and executive function6
Comparing motor imagery and verbal rehearsal strategies in children’s ability to follow spoken instructions6
Age-related changes in children’s cognitive–motor dual tasking: Evidence from a large cross-sectional sample6
The home numeracy environment and children’s math skills: The moderating role of parents’ math anxiety6
Lumping and splitting: Developmental changes in the structure of children’s semantic networks6
Multifaceted assessment of children’s inversion understanding6
Toddlers’ word learning through overhearing: Others’ attention matters6
Emotional awareness, empathy, and generosity in high-risk youths6
How do children with developmental language disorder extend novel nouns?6
Cognitive prerequisites for cumulative culture are context-dependent: Children’s potential for ratcheting depends on cue longevity6
Individual differences in gesture interpretation predict children’s propensity to pick a gesturer as a good informant6
Shaping children’s racial bias through interpersonal movement6
Bidirectional effects between expressive regulatory abilities and peer acceptance among Chinese adolescents6
The world within: Children are sensitive to internal complexity cues6
When one size does not fit all: A latent profile analysis of low-income preschoolers’ math skills6
Trajectories of behavioral avoidance in real time: Associations with temperament and physiological dysregulation in preschoolers6
Neural processing of self-produced and externally generated events in 3-month-old infants6
Children use race to infer who is “in charge”5
Four- and 5-year-old children adapt to the reliability of conflicting sources of information to learn novel words5
Child and caregiver executive function in trauma-exposed families: Relations with children’s behavioral and cognitive functioning5
Mediated semantic priming interference in toddlers as seen through pupil dynamics5
Individual and socioenvironmental differences in autobiographical emotional appraisal of preschoolers5
What is and what never should have been: Children’s causal and counterfactual judgments about the same events5
Children’s understanding of friendship formation caused by gossip5
The role of logical consequences in adolescents’ cognitive precursors of compliance and internalization5
Effects of test difficulty messaging on academic cheating among middle school children5
Children are more forgiving of accidental harms across development5
Linking young children’s teaching to their reasoning of mental states: Evidence from Singapore5
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 problems5
“I’ll remember everything no matter what!”: The role of metacognitive abilities in the development of young children’s prospective memory5
Toddlers imitate prosocial demonstrations in bystander but not transgressor contexts5
Developmental improvements in talker recognition are specific to the native language5
Moms know best?: Children’s evaluations of mothers’ unfair responses to peer conflicts5
Number line development of Chilean children from preschool to the end of kindergarten5
Two birds in the hand: Concurrent and switching cognitive flexibility in preschoolers5
Relations among spatial skills, number line estimation, and exact and approximate calculation in young children5
Social identity and contamination: Young children are more willing to eat native contaminated foods5
But they weren’t being careful! Role of theory of mind in moral judgments about victim and transgressor negligence5
Longitudinal development of cognitive mapping from childhood to adolescence5
Priming third-party ostracism does not lead to increased affiliation in three Serbian communities5
The link between parental mental state talk and children’s lying: An indirect effect via false belief understanding5
Talking about emotions: Effects of emotion-focused interviewing on children’s physiological regulation of stress and discussion of the subjective elements of a stressful experience5
Shyness and perceived monitoring by peers affect children’s performance in a divided attention task5
Interactive situations reveal more about children’s emotional knowledge5
Conscience and theory of mind in children aged 4 to 7 years5
Problem solving flexibility across early development5
Walking another pathway: The inclusion of patterning in the pathways to mathematics model5
Five-month-old infants attribute inferences based on general knowledge to agents5
Mind wandering and executive dysfunction predict children’s performance in the metronome response task5
Who’s more generous than me? Children’s self-evaluation of their prosociality in normative social comparisons5
Five-year-old children show cooperative preferences for faces with white sclera5
Intuitive biological thinking in Chinese 8th graders5
Expressions of positive and negative shyness in preschool-age children: Temperamental correlates and visual attention to emotions5
Revisiting the talker recognition advantage in bilingual infants5
Influence of causal language on causal understanding: A comparison between Swiss German and Turkish5
The link between mind wandering and learning in children5
The unique contributions of day and night sleep to infant motor problem solving4
Attentional capture in goal-directed action during childhood, adolescence, and early adulthood4
2.5-year-olds succeed in identity and location elicited-response false-belief tasks with adequate response practice4
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