Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	53
Children’s comparison of different-length numbers: Managing different attributes in multidigit number processing	44
What motivates early lies? Deception in 2½- to 5-year-olds	39
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	32
An experimental task to measure preschool children’s frustration induced by having to wait unexpectedly: The role of sensitivity to delay and culture	30
Children infer social group attitudes from evaluative behavioral information but do not extend them to unfamiliar group members	29
The successful use of a search strategy improves with visuospatial working memory in 2- to 4.5-year-olds	28
School-aged children with higher anxiety symptoms show greater correspondence between subjective negative emotions and autonomic arousal	28
Developmental differences in the timecourse of word learning: Greater improvements for children, semantic benefits for adults	26
When words and pointing compete: Young children’s referential comprehension under uncertainty	24
The effect of fantastical elements on preschoolers’ false belief task performance	24
The good, the rich, and the powerful: How young children compensate victims of moral transgressions depending on moral character, wealth, and social dominance	23
Developing a scale for mathematics vocabulary self-efficacy: Variations among primary, middle, and high school students	22
Learning novel transitive verbs in causative action events: A cross-linguistic comparison between English- and Japanese-speaking infants	21
Children’s evaluations of culturally diverse lunchbox foods	21
Contribution of orthography to vocabulary acquisition in a second language: Evidence of an early word-learning advantage in elementary-school children	21
The influence of language on the formation of number concepts: Evidence from preschool children who are bilingual in English and Arabic	21
Longitudinal relations between self-regulatory skills and mathematics achievement in early elementary school children from Chinese American immigrant families	21
Sound–symbol learning and the relationship to spelling in first-grade children	20
Effects of test difficulty messaging on academic cheating among middle school children	20
Children’s and adults’ evaluations of self-enhancement and self-deprecation depend on the usual performance of the self-presenter	20
In the presence and absence of conflicting testimony, children’s selective trust in the in-group informant in moral judgment and knowledge access	20
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	19
Preschoolers negatively evaluate conventional norm violations in pretend play	19

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
Hearts, flowers, and fruits: All children need to reveal their post-error slowing	18
Exploring audiovisual speech perception in monolingual and bilingual children in Uzbekistan	18
Proud to help when i should: Children’s positive emotions following sharing decisions with a needy versus not-needy other	17
Executive functions and problem-solving—The contribution of inhibition, working memory, and cognitive flexibility to science problem-solving performance in elementary school students	16
Finger counting as a key tool for the development of children’s numerical skills	16
Developmental effects of digitally contextualized reading on preschooler’s creative thinking: A quasi-experimental study	16
A cross-cultural comparison of finger-based and symbolic number representations	16
The role of truth and bias in parents’ judgments of children’s science interests	15
Children’s confidence on mathematical equivalence and fraction problems	15
What makes a role model motivating for young girls? The effects of the role model’s growth versus fixed mindsets about ability and interest	15
The past is “fake”: Facilitated processing of wishes compared with counterfactual conditionals in 4- and 5-year-olds	15
Activity increases in empathy-related brain regions when children contribute to peers’ sadness and happiness	15
Tonal interference in word learning? A comparison of Cantonese and French	14
The animals in moral tales: Does character realism influence children’s prosocial response to stories?	14
Seeing is believing: Larger Colavita effect in school-aged children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder	14
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	14
Sex differences in direction giving: Are boys better than girls?	14
Cognitive processing features of elementary school children with mathematical anxiety: Attentional control theory-based explanation	13
Multisensory and biomechanical influences on postural control in children	13
Observing parental behavior in challenging tasks: Its role for goal engagement and disengagement in children	13
Infant walking experience is related to the development of selective attention	13
Infants’ and toddlers’ language development during the pandemic: Socioeconomic status mattered	13
Contributions of causal reasoning to early scientific literacy	13
Mathematical skills of 11-year-old children born very preterm and full-term	13
From social inhibition in childhood to social facilitation in adulthood: How social presence systematically enhances the predominant response strategy in cognitive tasks	13
Learning science concepts through prompts to consider alternative possible worlds	13
Children’s knowledge of superordinate words predicts subsequent inductive reasoning	13
The development of self-initiated visuo-spatial working memory	12
Editorial Board	12
The wind in the willows effect: Does age affect human versus animal faux pas recognition?	12
Finger counting, finger number gesturing, and basic numerical skills: A cross-sectional study in 3- to 5-year-olds	12
Event-related potential correlates of implicit processing of own- and other-race faces in children	12
The development of third-party intervention in children aged 4–10: Balancing unfairness aversion and self-interest	12
Children are eager to take credit for prosocial acts, and cost affects this tendency	12
Editorial Board	12
Editorial Board	11
Category learning is shaped by the multifaceted development of selective attention	11
Lying behavior in adolescents with conduct disorder: An experimental study of the role of executive functioning	11
“Yay! Yuck!” toddlers use others’ emotional responses to reason about hidden objects	11
Counting without end: A cross-linguistic exploration of infinity beliefs in English and Hindi learners	11
Affordances of fractions and decimals for arithmetic among middle school students in the United States and China	11
“But the poor needed it more”: Children’s judgments on procedural justice to allocate resources between two candidates equal in merit, different in need	11
Sleep disturbances moderate the association between effortful control and executive functioning in early childhood	10
Editorial Board	10
Children can consider social relationships when evaluating liars	10
Developmental patterns and computational mechanisms of school-aged children’s fairness-related decision making under social comparison	10
Reconsidering conceptual knowledge: Heterogeneity of its components	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

Infants’ representation of asymmetric social influence	10
Modeling item-level variance of polysyllabic word reading in developing readers: Exploring semantically related child, word, and child-by-word predictors	10
Receptive and expressive vocabulary performance in 2- to 5-year-olds in care: The role of different care types and temperament	10
Siblings at home: Moderating influence of sibling presence and composition on the relation between problem behaviors and Theory of Mind in early childhood	10
In one ear and out the other: Verbal reminders do not improve young children’s prospective memory performance on a virtual task	10
Episodic future thinking and delay of gratification in children: An individual differences study	10
Examining the cognitive and perceptual perspectives of music-to-language transfer: A study of Cantonese–English bilingual children	10
Elucidating mechanisms linking mothers’ and fathers’ mind-mindedness in infancy with children’s self-regulation at early preschool age	10
Executive functions in deaf and hearing children: The mediating role of language skills in inhibitory control	10
The effect of feedback and recollection rejection instructions on the development of memory monitoring and accuracy	10
Children plan manual actions similarly in structured tasks and in free play	10
Sources of variation in preschoolers’ relational reasoning: The interaction between language use and working memory	10
Children expect national group membership to guide food choice	10
Relieved or disappointed? Children’s understanding of how others feel at the cessation of events	10
The number line estimation task is a valid tool for assessing mathematical achievement: A population-level study with 6484 Luxembourgish ninth-graders	10
Perceptual narrowing continues throughout childhood: Evidence from specialization of face processing	10
Associations between parents’ autonomy supportive management language and children’s science, technology, engineering, and mathematics talk during and after tinkering at home	10
Successful comparisons in novel word generalization: Executive functions or semantic knowledge?	9
The longitudinal (in)stability and cognitive underpinnings of children’s cheating behavior	9
Preschool children weigh accuracy against partisanship when seeking information	9
Speech rate development in Japanese-speaking children and proficiency in mora-timed rhythm	9
The effect of visual parameters on nonsymbolic numerosity estimation varies depending on the format of stimulus presentation	9
Parental criticism affects adolescents’ mood and ruminative state: Self-perception appears to influence their mood response	9
Cognitive and academic growth among emergent bilingual children at risk and not at risk for math difficulties	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
Effects of praise and “easy” feedback on children’s persistence and self-evaluations	9
Understanding the link between theory of mind and loneliness among primary school students: A cross-lagged panel model analysis	9
Parent education, not income-to-needs ratio, relates to preschool home executive function environment	9
Balancing accuracy and speed in the development of inhibitory control	9
Punish, compensate, or both? Children’s fairness decisions in varying choice contexts	9
The development of spoken word recognition in informative and uninformative sentence contexts	9
Infants’ intention-based evaluations of distributive actions	9
The relation of bilingual cognitive skills to the second language writing performance of primary grade students	9
Compensatory prosocial behavior in high-risk adolescents observing social exclusion: The effects of emotion feedback	9
Martial arts enhances working memory and attention in school-aged children: A functional near-infrared spectroscopy study	9
The squeaky wheel gets the grease: Recipients’ responses influence children’s costly third-party punishment of unfairness	9
Even young children make multiple predictions in the complex visual world	9
Moral evaluations of children’s truths and lies in a prosocial context: The role of reputation	8
Preschoolers’ in-group bias promotes altruistic sharing and reduces second-party punishment: The role of theory of mind	8
Parenting style and the cognitive development of preschool-aged children: Evidence from rural China	8
Children’s understanding of counterfactual and temporal relief in others	8
Children use race to infer who is “in charge”	8
Attentional blink in infants under 7 months	8
Building lexical networks: Preschoolers extract different types of information in cross-situational learning	8
Recognition of emotional body language from dyadic and monadic point-light displays in 5-year-old children and adults	8
Cognitive and home predictors of precocious reading and math before formal education	8
Editorial Board	8
The roles of behavioral and affective cues and false belief in children’s trait attributions	8
Relations between parental metacognitive talk and children’s early metacognition and memory	8
Balanced time perspective and aggression in left-behind children: The mediating role of self-esteem	8
The developmental trajectories of implicit and explicit metacognitive monitoring and control in cued recall	8
Spatial associations of number and pitch in human newborns	8
Editorial Board	8
Reduced perceptual span in dyslexic children: a gaze-contingent eye-tracking study	8
From age two, children use pronouns to predict who will speak next in conversation	8
Chinese parents’ support of preschoolers’ mathematical development	8
The development of children’s and adults’ use of kinematic cues for visual anticipation and verbal prediction of action	8
Editorial Board	8
Impacts of number lines and circle visual displays on caregivers’ fraction understanding	8
The short-term and long-term effects of cooperative interaction on children’s perspective-taking	8
Finger counting to relieve working memory in children with developmental coordination disorder: Insights from behavioral and three-dimensional motion analyses	7
Cognitive processes associated with working memory in children with developmental language disorder	7
“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	7
Exploring the role of classroom quality and student-teacher relationship in the executive function and academic performance of first grade children	7
How are cognitive abilities and mathematical abilities related in early childhood? Unraveling the mediation mechanism and age-related influences	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
Unveiling neurodevelopmental changes in multisensory integration while controlling attention	7
Does executive function moderate the spatial-math link in preschoolers?	7
Evaluations of epistemic and practical reasons for belief in a predominantly White U.S. sample of preschoolers	7
Cross-linguistic relations of morphological awareness between Korean and English to language and reading skills for Korean adolescents	7
The role of social comparison and emotion in children’s fairness judgments	7
Longitudinal associations between parental mathematics anxiety and attitudes and young children’s mathematics attainment	7
From error to insight: Removing non-systematic responding data in the delay discounting task may introduce systematic bias	7
The roots of compassion in early childhood: Relationships between theory of mind and attachment representations with empathic concern and prosocial behavior	7
Children endorse deterrence motivations for third-party punishment but derive higher enjoyment from compensating victims	7
Numerical Understanding Mentored by Expert Researchers (NUMBERs) workshop: Special issue overview	7
Negative mood induction in children: An examination across mood, physiological, and cognitive variables	7
Examining the relationship between psychosocial adversity and inhibitory control: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study of children growing up in extreme poverty	7
Sources of error in numerical estimation: Insights from the wisdom of crowds effect	7

Dragging but not tapping promotes preschoolers’ numerical estimating with touchscreens	7
Initial interactions matter: Warm-up play affects 2-year-olds’ cooperative ability with an unfamiliar same-aged peer	7
Infants’ short-term memory for consonant–vowel syllables	7
Children’s expectations about the stability of others’ knowledge and preference states	7
Testing the generalizability of minimal group attitudes in minority and majority race children	7
US and Korean children prefer equality, but Korean children are more tolerant of ingroup-favoring allocations	7
Adolescents’ state authenticity and inauthenticity when socialising online with a friend: Motivations in friendship	7
Can gamification improve children’s performance in mental rotation?	7
Adaptive variability in children’s conceptual models of division	7
How youth think about structural, individual, and random sources of wealth inequality	7
Facial impressions of niceness influence children’s interpretations of peers’ ambiguous behavior	6
Children’s developing ability to recognize deceptive use of true information	6
Math talk by mothers, fathers, and toddlers: Differences across materials and associations with children’s math understanding	6
How executive functioning, sentence processing, and vocabulary are related at 3 years of age	6
Perception of visual and audiovisual trajectories toward and away from the body in the first postnatal year	6
Converging evidence for domain-general developmental trends of mental attentional capacity: Validity and reliability of full and abbreviated measures	6
Give some, keep some, put some: The language of sharing in children	6
High variability in learning materials benefits children’s pattern practice	6
Neural correlates of unconventional verb extensions reveal preschoolers’ analogical abilities	6
But Why?: Children’s belief in the necessity of explanations	6
Examining the factor structure of the home learning environment	6
Children’s science vocabulary uniquely predicts individual differences in science knowledge	6
The role of conventionality and design in children’s function judgments about malfunctioning artifacts	6
A happy face advantage for pareidolic faces in children and adults	6
Children’s and adults’ social partner choices are differently affected by statistical information	6
The role of epistemic reasoning in mutual exclusivity inferences	6
The profit motive: Implications for children’s reasoning about merit-based resource distribution	6
A longitudinal study of theory of mind and listening comprehension: Is preschool theory of mind important?	6
Considering the associations of adverse and positive childhood experiences with health behaviors and outcomes among emerging adults	6
Where does language come from? The development of a naïve biological understanding of language	6
A bird’s-eye view of research practices in mathematical cognition, learning, and instruction: Reimagining the status quo	6
Turkish- and English-speaking 3-year-old children are sensitive to the evidential strength of claims when revising their beliefs	6
Developing mental number line games to improve young children’s number knowledge and basic arithmetic skills	6
Schadenfreude or empathy? Children’s emotional responses to the physical pain and pleasure of prosocial and antisocial others	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
Preference matters: Knowledge of beneficiary’s preference influences children’s evaluations of the act of leaving a choice for others	6
Rapport building with adolescents to enhance reporting and disclosure	6
Intuitive mapping between nonsymbolic quantity and observed action across development	6
Children’s evaluations of direct and indirect bias justifications for same-race inclusion	6
Good person, but bad friend: Children’s developing evaluations of tattling	6
Inside a child’s mind: The relations between mind wandering and executive function across 8- to 12-year-olds	6
Children infer counterfactual information from others’ facial expressions	6
A structural equation model of emotion knowledge and verbal intelligence in peer acceptance in a sample of Portuguese preschoolers	6
The role of semantic similarity in verb learning events: Vocabulary-related changes across early development	6
Economic risk proneness in middle childhood: Uncertainty-driven exploration or novelty-seeking?	6
Maximizing math achievement: Strategies from the science of learning	5
Young children’s understanding of the epistemic and deontic meanings of ask and tell	5
Elementary school-aged children’s perceptions of academic dishonesty: Definitions and moral evaluations of cheating behaviors in school	5
Contextual adaptation of cognitive flexibility in kindergartners and fourth graders	5
Don’t be a rat: An investigation of the taboo against reporting other students for cheating	5
Integrating adverse and positive childhood experiences into experimental developmental science: introduction to the special issue	5
Young children’s attributes are better conveyed by voices than by faces	5
Toddlers’ expressions indicate that they track agent–object interactions but do not detect false object representations	5
Holding multiple category representations: The role of age, theory of mind, and rule switching in children’s developing cross-classification abilities	5
Dissociated contributions of working memory and inhibitory control to children’s and adults’ analogical reasoning: Analogical strategies matter	5
Maternal temperament and parenting practices as predictors of children’s behavior problems	5
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	5
Two birds in the hand: Concurrent and switching cognitive flexibility in preschoolers	5
Task demands matter in shaping how preschoolers express instrumental helping, comforting, and sharing: A longitudinal analysis	5
Being the third wheel: Toddlers use bystander learning to acquire cue-specific valence knowledge	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
Altruism and hyperaltruism in children of three cultures	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
Processing order in short-term memory is spatially biased in children	5
Young children’s updating of mental representations of story characters and events based on verbal and pictorial information	5
Editorial Board	5
The influence of group membership on false-belief attribution in preschool children	5
The effect of visuo-haptic exploration on the development of the geometric cross-sectioning ability	5
Development of false memories in 5- and 8-year-olds: The role of working memory maintenance mechanisms	5
The effects of referential continuity on novel word learning in bilingual and monolingual preschoolers	5
The role of color, contrast, and spatial complexity in infants’ visual engagement with board and picture book images	5
Chatbot dialogic reading boosts comprehension for Chinese kindergarteners with higher language skills	5
Tomorrow versus a year from now: Do children represent the near and distant future differently?	5
Children learn cause-and-effect relations from fantastical and realistic storybooks	5
Parent–child physiological concordance predicts stronger observational fear learning in children with a less secure relationship with their parent	5
The nature of order processing deficits in developmental dyscalculia: The influences of familiarity and the count-list	5
Longitudinal relations between theory of mind and academic achievement among deaf and hard-of-hearing school-aged children	5
Oral language predictors of word reading and spelling: A cross-linguistic comparison in bilingual and monolingual children	5
Does understanding others help children to be more social and less lonely? Relations among theory of mind, social skills and loneliness	5
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Children’s consideration of collaboration and merit when making sharing decisions in private	5
To lie or not to lie: The role of costs and benefits in children’s decision-making	5
Preschoolers retain more details from event sequences 1 week following an in-group demonstration	5
The effect of choice on memory across development	5
Individual differences in word learning from print and digital shared book reading	5
The impact of positive and adverse childhood experiences on social connectedness in young adults	4
Mathematics anxiety and math achievement in primary school children: Testing different theoretical accounts	4
Corrigendum to “The effects of ostracism on preschoolers’ over-imitation behaviors”. [J. Exp. Child Psychol. 249 (2025) 106110]	4
Brain bases of morphological awareness and longitudinal word reading outcomes	4
Delayed language access hampers but does not hinder visual statistical learning in deaf and hard of hearing children	4
Detecting social cues conveyed by laughter and associations with callous-unemotional traits in early childhood	4
Poor conceptual knowledge in the food domain and food rejection dispositions in 3- to 7-year-old children	4
The development of digital ownership in children	4
Social and communicative not a prerequisite: Preverbal infants learn an abstract rule only from congruent audiovisual dynamic pitch–height patterns	4
Contribution of executive functions to reading comprehension in bilingual and monolingual 3rd grade children	4