Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	61
Children’s comparison of different-length numbers: Managing different attributes in multidigit number processing	46
What motivates early lies? Deception in 2½- to 5-year-olds	41
Cognitive processes that underlie mathematically gifted emergent bilinguals	35
A robot’s efficient demonstration cannot reduce 5- to 6-year-old children’s over-imitation	34
The successful use of a search strategy improves with visuospatial working memory in 2- to 4.5-year-olds	32
School-aged children with higher anxiety symptoms show greater correspondence between subjective negative emotions and autonomic arousal	30
Developmental differences in the timecourse of word learning: Greater improvements for children, semantic benefits for adults	29
When words and pointing compete: Young children’s referential comprehension under uncertainty	28
The effect of fantastical elements on preschoolers’ false belief task performance	27
The influence of language on the formation of number concepts: Evidence from preschool children who are bilingual in English and Arabic	26
Children’s evaluations of culturally diverse lunchbox foods	26
Effects of test difficulty messaging on academic cheating among middle school children	24
Sound–symbol learning and the relationship to spelling in first-grade children	23
The good, the rich, and the powerful: How young children compensate victims of moral transgressions depending on moral character, wealth, and social dominance	22
An experimental task to measure preschool children’s frustration induced by having to wait unexpectedly: The role of sensitivity to delay and culture	22
Developing a scale for mathematics vocabulary self-efficacy: Variations among primary, middle, and high school students	22
In the presence and absence of conflicting testimony, children’s selective trust in the in-group informant in moral judgment and knowledge access	22
Strategic self-initiated encoding in object-location memory in 8–10-year-old children	22
Longitudinal relations between self-regulatory skills and mathematics achievement in early elementary school children from Chinese American immigrant families	22
Practice what you preach? Children’s evaluations of parents’ verbal messages and social modeling of honesty and lie-telling	22
Contribution of orthography to vocabulary acquisition in a second language: Evidence of an early word-learning advantage in elementary-school children	21
Children infer social group attitudes from evaluative behavioral information but do not extend them to unfamiliar group members	21
Learning novel transitive verbs in causative action events: A cross-linguistic comparison between English- and Japanese-speaking infants	21
Children’s and adults’ evaluations of self-enhancement and self-deprecation depend on the usual performance of the self-presenter	20

Observing and producing gesture on shape categorization across learner characteristics	19
The factorial structure of executive functions in preschool and elementary school children and relations with intelligence	18
Are facet-specific task trainings efficient in improving children’s executive functions and why (they might not be)? A multi-facet latent change score approach	18
Weighing relationship type and competence: Developmental shift in help-seeking expectations among children aged 4 to 6 years	18
Finger counting as a key tool for the development of children’s numerical skills	18
Understanding the cognitive and emotional foundations of mathematical ability	18
The past is “fake”: Facilitated processing of wishes compared with counterfactual conditionals in 4- and 5-year-olds	17
What makes a role model motivating for young girls? The effects of the role model’s growth versus fixed mindsets about ability and interest	17
Exploring audiovisual speech perception in monolingual and bilingual children in Uzbekistan	17
A cross-cultural comparison of finger-based and symbolic number representations	17
The role of truth and bias in parents’ judgments of children’s science interests	17
Developmental effects of digitally contextualized reading on preschooler’s creative thinking: A quasi-experimental study	17
Hearts, flowers, and fruits: All children need to reveal their post-error slowing	16
Children’s confidence on mathematical equivalence and fraction problems	15
Preschoolers negatively evaluate conventional norm violations in pretend play	15
Executive functions and problem-solving—The contribution of inhibition, working memory, and cognitive flexibility to science problem-solving performance in elementary school students	14
Contributions of causal reasoning to early scientific literacy	14
Seeing is believing: Larger Colavita effect in school-aged children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder	14
Infants’ and toddlers’ language development during the pandemic: Socioeconomic status mattered	14
Sex differences in direction giving: Are boys better than girls?	14
Multisensory and biomechanical influences on postural control in children	14
The development of essentialist beliefs about social status categories in China	14
Expressivity, but not age, is predictive of how ‘readable’ children’s reactions are	13
Children’s knowledge of superordinate words predicts subsequent inductive reasoning	13
From social inhibition in childhood to social facilitation in adulthood: How social presence systematically enhances the predominant response strategy in cognitive tasks	13
Observing parental behavior in challenging tasks: Its role for goal engagement and disengagement in children	13
Tonal interference in word learning? A comparison of Cantonese and French	13
Infant walking experience is related to the development of selective attention	13
From what I want to do to what we decided to do: 5-year-olds, but not 3-year-olds, honor their agreements with peers	13
Cognitive processing features of elementary school children with mathematical anxiety: Attentional control theory-based explanation	12
Editorial Board	12
The development of third-party intervention in children aged 4–10: Balancing unfairness aversion and self-interest	12
“Yay! Yuck!” toddlers use others’ emotional responses to reason about hidden objects	12
Written or drawn episodic future thinking cues improves delay discounting in children	12
Children are eager to take credit for prosocial acts, and cost affects this tendency	12
The wind in the willows effect: Does age affect human versus animal faux pas recognition?	12
The development of self-initiated visuo-spatial working memory	12
Activity increases in empathy-related brain regions when children contribute to peers’ sadness and happiness	12
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Learning science concepts through prompts to consider alternative possible worlds	12
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The power of pretend: unveiling the role of play complexity in self-regulation among polish preschool children	11
Counting without end: A cross-linguistic exploration of infinity beliefs in English and Hindi learners	11
Infants’ representation of asymmetric social influence	11
Siblings at home: Moderating influence of sibling presence and composition on the relation between problem behaviors and Theory of Mind in early childhood	11
Associations between parents’ autonomy supportive management language and children’s science, technology, engineering, and mathematics talk during and after tinkering at home	11
Affordances of fractions and decimals for arithmetic among middle school students in the United States and China	11
Modeling item-level variance of polysyllabic word reading in developing readers: Exploring semantically related child, word, and child-by-word predictors	11
Perceptual narrowing continues throughout childhood: Evidence from specialization of face processing	11
Children can consider social relationships when evaluating liars	11

Examining the cognitive and perceptual perspectives of music-to-language transfer: A study of Cantonese–English bilingual children	11
Lying behavior in adolescents with conduct disorder: An experimental study of the role of executive functioning	11
The number line estimation task is a valid tool for assessing mathematical achievement: A population-level study with 6484 Luxembourgish ninth-graders	11
Children expect national group membership to guide food choice	11
Elucidating mechanisms linking mothers’ and fathers’ mind-mindedness in infancy with children’s self-regulation at early preschool age	11
Relieved or disappointed? Children’s understanding of how others feel at the cessation of events	10
Understanding the link between theory of mind and loneliness among primary school students: A cross-lagged panel model analysis	10
The effect of feedback and recollection rejection instructions on the development of memory monitoring and accuracy	10
Successful comparisons in novel word generalization: Executive functions or semantic knowledge?	10
“But the poor needed it more”: Children’s judgments on procedural justice to allocate resources between two candidates equal in merit, different in need	10
Category learning is shaped by the multifaceted development of selective attention	10
Sources of variation in preschoolers’ relational reasoning: The interaction between language use and working memory	10
Reconsidering conceptual knowledge: Heterogeneity of its components	10
Punish, compensate, or both? Children’s fairness decisions in varying choice contexts	10
Comparison between young children’s and college students’ cooperative success in an online Stag Hunt: Do prior training, sex, relationship, and nature of communication matter?	10
The longitudinal (in)stability and cognitive underpinnings of children’s cheating behavior	10
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Children plan manual actions similarly in structured tasks and in free play	10
The relation of bilingual cognitive skills to the second language writing performance of primary grade students	10
Martial arts enhances working memory and attention in school-aged children: A functional near-infrared spectroscopy study	10
The development of spoken word recognition in informative and uninformative sentence contexts	10
Finger counting, finger number gesturing, and basic numerical skills: A cross-sectional study in 3- to 5-year-olds	10
Sleep disturbances moderate the association between effortful control and executive functioning in early childhood	10
Event-related potential correlates of implicit processing of own- and other-race faces in children	10
In one ear and out the other: Verbal reminders do not improve young children’s prospective memory performance on a virtual task	10
The squeaky wheel gets the grease: Recipients’ responses influence children’s costly third-party punishment of unfairness	9
Effects of praise and “easy” feedback on children’s persistence and self-evaluations	9
Developmental patterns and computational mechanisms of school-aged children’s fairness-related decision making under social comparison	9
Cognitive and home predictors of precocious reading and math before formal education	9
The developmental trajectories of implicit and explicit metacognitive monitoring and control in cued recall	9
Episodic future thinking and delay of gratification in children: An individual differences study	9
Preschoolers’ in-group bias promotes altruistic sharing and reduces second-party punishment: The role of theory of mind	9
Preschool children weigh accuracy against partisanship when seeking information	9
Even young children make multiple predictions in the complex visual world	9
Parent education, not income-to-needs ratio, relates to preschool home executive function environment	9
Editorial Board	9
The roles of behavioral and affective cues and false belief in children’s trait attributions	9
The effect of visual parameters on nonsymbolic numerosity estimation varies depending on the format of stimulus presentation	9
Balancing accuracy and speed in the development of inhibitory control	9
Parental criticism affects adolescents’ mood and ruminative state: Self-perception appears to influence their mood response	9
Infants’ intention-based evaluations of distributive actions	9
Receptive and expressive vocabulary performance in 2- to 5-year-olds in care: The role of different care types and temperament	9
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Compensatory prosocial behavior in high-risk adolescents observing social exclusion: The effects of emotion feedback	9
Early presence of a “power = males” association: Girls link power to their gender less often than boys but can be as motivated to gain it	9
Speech rate development in Japanese-speaking children and proficiency in mora-timed rhythm	9
Relations between parental metacognitive talk and children’s early metacognition and memory	8
Building lexical networks: Preschoolers extract different types of information in cross-situational learning	8
Balanced time perspective and aggression in left-behind children: The mediating role of self-esteem	8
Infants’ short-term memory for consonant–vowel syllables	8
Longitudinal associations between parental mathematics anxiety and attitudes and young children’s mathematics attainment	8
The role of social comparison and emotion in children’s fairness judgments	8
Editorial Board	8
The development of children’s and adults’ use of kinematic cues for visual anticipation and verbal prediction of action	8
The short-term and long-term effects of cooperative interaction on children’s perspective-taking	8
Impacts of number lines and circle visual displays on caregivers’ fraction understanding	8
Children use race to infer who is “in charge”	8
Chinese parents’ support of preschoolers’ mathematical development	8
Children’s expectations about the stability of others’ knowledge and preference states	8
Parenting style and the cognitive development of preschool-aged children: Evidence from rural China	8
Recognition of emotional body language from dyadic and monadic point-light displays in 5-year-old children and adults	8
Children’s understanding of counterfactual and temporal relief in others	8
Spatial associations of number and pitch in human newborns	8
From age two, children use pronouns to predict who will speak next in conversation	8
Reduced perceptual span in dyslexic children: a gaze-contingent eye-tracking study	8
“Watch me − This is how it should be done!” The effect of normative language on preschoolers’ overimitation occurs only in the lab but not at home	8
Attentional blink in infants under 7 months	8
Moral evaluations of children’s truths and lies in a prosocial context: The role of reputation	8
Children endorse deterrence motivations for third-party punishment but derive higher enjoyment from compensating victims	7
The role of conventionality and design in children’s function judgments about malfunctioning artifacts	7
Cross-linguistic relations of morphological awareness between Korean and English to language and reading skills for Korean adolescents	7
Dragging but not tapping promotes preschoolers’ numerical estimating with touchscreens	7
How youth think about structural, individual, and random sources of wealth inequality	7
Finger counting to relieve working memory in children with developmental coordination disorder: Insights from behavioral and three-dimensional motion analyses	7
Children’s science vocabulary uniquely predicts individual differences in science knowledge	7
A happy face advantage for pareidolic faces in children and adults	7
Turkish- and English-speaking 3-year-old children are sensitive to the evidential strength of claims when revising their beliefs	7
US and Korean children prefer equality, but Korean children are more tolerant of ingroup-favoring allocations	7
Testing the generalizability of minimal group attitudes in minority and majority race children	7
Developing mental number line games to improve young children’s number knowledge and basic arithmetic skills	7

Evaluations of epistemic and practical reasons for belief in a predominantly White U.S. sample of preschoolers	7
The roots of compassion in early childhood: Relationships between theory of mind and attachment representations with empathic concern and prosocial behavior	7
How are cognitive abilities and mathematical abilities related in early childhood? Unraveling the mediation mechanism and age-related influences	7
Sources of error in numerical estimation: Insights from the wisdom of crowds effect	7
Does executive function moderate the spatial-math link in preschoolers?	7
The role of semantic similarity in verb learning events: Vocabulary-related changes across early development	7
Numerical Understanding Mentored by Expert Researchers (NUMBERs) workshop: Special issue overview	7
Children’s developing ability to recognize deceptive use of true information	7
Rapport building with adolescents to enhance reporting and disclosure	7
Children’s and adults’ social partner choices are differently affected by statistical information	7
Adaptive variability in children’s conceptual models of division	7
From error to insight: Removing non-systematic responding data in the delay discounting task may introduce systematic bias	7
Unveiling neurodevelopmental changes in multisensory integration while controlling attention	7
Cognitive processes associated with working memory in children with developmental language disorder	7
Exploring the role of classroom quality and student-teacher relationship in the executive function and academic performance of first grade children	7
Economic risk proneness in middle childhood: Uncertainty-driven exploration or novelty-seeking?	7
Exploring relative strengths in people with Down syndrome: Spatial thinking and its role in mathematics	7
Do preschoolers trust a competent robot pointer?	7
Facial impressions of niceness influence children’s interpretations of peers’ ambiguous behavior	7
Give some, keep some, put some: The language of sharing in children	6
Tomorrow versus a year from now: Do children represent the near and distant future differently?	6
A structural equation model of emotion knowledge and verbal intelligence in peer acceptance in a sample of Portuguese preschoolers	6
Perception of visual and audiovisual trajectories toward and away from the body in the first postnatal year	6
Preference matters: Knowledge of beneficiary’s preference influences children’s evaluations of the act of leaving a choice for others	6
Math talk by mothers, fathers, and toddlers: Differences across materials and associations with children’s math understanding	6
Examining the relationship between psychosocial adversity and inhibitory control: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study of children growing up in extreme poverty	6
Can gamification improve children’s performance in mental rotation?	6
The profit motive: Implications for children’s reasoning about merit-based resource distribution	6
Young children’s understanding of the epistemic and deontic meanings of ask and tell	6
Children’s evaluations of direct and indirect bias justifications for same-race inclusion	6
But Why?: Children’s belief in the necessity of explanations	6
Late-emerging associations between numeral order and children’s mathematics: what predicts is changing	6
Corrigendum to “The impact of handwriting and typing practice in children’s letter and word learning: Implications for literacy development” [J. Exp. Child Psychol. 253(6) (2025) 106195	6
Considering the associations of adverse and positive childhood experiences with health behaviors and outcomes among emerging adults	6
Integrating adverse and positive childhood experiences into experimental developmental science: introduction to the special issue	6
How executive functioning, sentence processing, and vocabulary are related at 3 years of age	6
Inside a child’s mind: The relations between mind wandering and executive function across 8- to 12-year-olds	6
Measuring adverse childhood experiences by interviewing children at 9 and 10 years of age: Prevalence, concordance with mother-reports, posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms, and subjective experienc	6
Adolescents’ state authenticity and inauthenticity when socialising online with a friend: Motivations in friendship	6
A bird’s-eye view of research practices in mathematical cognition, learning, and instruction: Reimagining the status quo	6
Good person, but bad friend: Children’s developing evaluations of tattling	6
Intuitive mapping between nonsymbolic quantity and observed action across development	6
Preschoolers retain more details from event sequences 1 week following an in-group demonstration	6
High variability in learning materials benefits children’s pattern practice	6
Maternal temperament and parenting practices as predictors of children’s behavior problems	6
Converging evidence for domain-general developmental trends of mental attentional capacity: Validity and reliability of full and abbreviated measures	6
Task demands matter in shaping how preschoolers express instrumental helping, comforting, and sharing: A longitudinal analysis	6
Where does language come from? The development of a naïve biological understanding of language	6
The role of epistemic reasoning in mutual exclusivity inferences	6
Schadenfreude or empathy? Children’s emotional responses to the physical pain and pleasure of prosocial and antisocial others	6
Examining the factor structure of the home learning environment	6
Negative mood induction in children: An examination across mood, physiological, and cognitive variables	6
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Neural correlates of unconventional verb extensions reveal preschoolers’ analogical abilities	6
The effects of referential continuity on novel word learning in bilingual and monolingual preschoolers	6
Two birds in the hand: Concurrent and switching cognitive flexibility in preschoolers	6
Chatbot dialogic reading boosts comprehension for Chinese kindergarteners with higher language skills	6
Children infer counterfactual information from others’ facial expressions	6
Individual differences in word learning from print and digital shared book reading	6
Children learn cause-and-effect relations from fantastical and realistic storybooks	5
Does understanding others help children to be more social and less lonely? Relations among theory of mind, social skills and loneliness	5
To lie or not to lie: The role of costs and benefits in children’s decision-making	5
Cross-language activation during word recognition in child second-language learners and the role of executive function	5
The costs and benefits of kindness for kids	5
The effects of phonological and semantic similarity on early referent identification	5
Young children’s attributes are better conveyed by voices than by faces	5
Alice in Wonderland: The effects of body size and movement on children’s size perception and body representation in virtual reality	5
The nature of order processing deficits in developmental dyscalculia: The influences of familiarity and the count-list	5
The impact of strategies on young children’s saving for the future	5
The effect of visuo-haptic exploration on the development of the geometric cross-sectioning ability	5
Toddlers’ expressions indicate that they track agent–object interactions but do not detect false object representations	5
Maximizing math achievement: Strategies from the science of learning	5
The influence of group membership on false-belief attribution in preschool children	5
Oral language predictors of word reading and spelling: A cross-linguistic comparison in bilingual and monolingual children	5
Contextual adaptation of cognitive flexibility in kindergartners and fourth graders	5
The influence of Chinese martial arts teaching intervention based on embodied cognition theory on attention networks in 5–6-year-old children	5
Why do young children overestimate their task performance? A cross-cultural experiment	5
Do children match described probabilities? The sampling hypothesis applied to repeated risky choice	5
Brain response to CT-related touch in infants: Contribution of temperament and maternal touch	5
The effect of choice on memory across development	5
Self-initiating and applying episodic foresight in middle childhood	5
Elementary school-aged children’s perceptions of academic dishonesty: Definitions and moral evaluations of cheating behaviors in school	5
Development of false memories in 5- and 8-year-olds: The role of working memory maintenance mechanisms	5
The role of color, contrast, and spatial complexity in infants’ visual engagement with board and picture book images	5
Young children’s updating of mental representations of story characters and events based on verbal and pictorial information	5
Longitudinal relations between theory of mind and academic achievement among deaf and hard-of-hearing school-aged children	5
Role of socioeconomic status in children’s resource allocation under inequality	5
Reduction in right lateralized N2 error response to stroke order violations in poor Chinese word spellers: A study on event-related potential markers for Chinese reading and spelling	5
Don’t be a rat: An investigation of the taboo against reporting other students for cheating	5
Holding multiple category representations: The role of age, theory of mind, and rule switching in children’s developing cross-classification abilities	5
Friendship relationships, psychological well-being, and social problem solving in primary school students	5
Altruism and hyperaltruism in children of three cultures	5
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Children’s consideration of collaboration and merit when making sharing decisions in private	5
Self-projection in early childhood: No evidence for a common underpinning of episodic memory, episodic future thinking, theory of mind, and spatial navigation	5