Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Experimental Child Psychology is 6. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
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Sound–symbol learning and the relationship to spelling in first-grade children44
Children’s comparison of different-length numbers: Managing different attributes in multidigit number processing39
What motivates early lies? Deception in 2½- to 5-year-olds34
Cognitive processes that underlie mathematically gifted emergent bilinguals33
A robot’s efficient demonstration cannot reduce 5- to 6-year-old children’s over-imitation31
An experimental task to measure preschool children’s frustration induced by having to wait unexpectedly: The role of sensitivity to delay and culture30
Children infer social group attitudes from evaluative behavioral information but do not extend them to unfamiliar group members28
School-aged children with higher anxiety symptoms show greater correspondence between subjective negative emotions and autonomic arousal27
The successful use of a search strategy improves with visuospatial working memory in 2- to 4.5-year-olds27
Developmental differences in the timecourse of word learning: Greater improvements for children, semantic benefits for adults26
Developing a scale for mathematics vocabulary self-efficacy: Variations among primary, middle, and high school students23
When words and pointing compete: Young children’s referential comprehension under uncertainty22
Longitudinal relations between self-regulatory skills and mathematics achievement in early elementary school children from Chinese American immigrant families22
In the presence and absence of conflicting testimony, children’s selective trust in the in-group informant in moral judgment and knowledge access21
The good, the rich, and the powerful: How young children compensate victims of moral transgressions depending on moral character, wealth, and social dominance21
Effects of test difficulty messaging on academic cheating among middle school children21
The effect of fantastical elements on preschoolers’ false belief task performance21
The influence of language on the formation of number concepts: Evidence from preschool children who are bilingual in English and Arabic20
Children’s evaluations of culturally diverse lunchbox foods20
Contribution of orthography to vocabulary acquisition in a second language: Evidence of an early word-learning advantage in elementary-school children20
Developmental effects of digitally contextualized reading on preschooler’s creative thinking: A quasi-experimental study19
Observing and producing gesture on shape categorization across learner characteristics19
Are facet-specific task trainings efficient in improving children’s executive functions and why (they might not be)? A multi-facet latent change score approach19
Children’s and adults’ evaluations of self-enhancement and self-deprecation depend on the usual performance of the self-presenter19
Preschoolers negatively evaluate conventional norm violations in pretend play19
Learning novel transitive verbs in causative action events: A cross-linguistic comparison between English- and Japanese-speaking infants19
Hearts, flowers, and fruits: All children need to reveal their post-error slowing18
Exploring audiovisual speech perception in monolingual and bilingual children in Uzbekistan18
The role of truth and bias in parents’ judgments of children’s science interests17
Children’s confidence on mathematical equivalence and fraction problems17
The past is “fake”: Facilitated processing of wishes compared with counterfactual conditionals in 4- and 5-year-olds17
The factorial structure of executive functions in preschool and elementary school children and relations with intelligence16
What makes a role model motivating for young girls? The effects of the role model’s growth versus fixed mindsets about ability and interest16
Proud to help when i should: Children’s positive emotions following sharing decisions with a needy versus not-needy other15
Executive functions and problem-solving—The contribution of inhibition, working memory, and cognitive flexibility to science problem-solving performance in elementary school students15
Finger counting as a key tool for the development of children’s numerical skills15
A cross-cultural comparison of finger-based and symbolic number representations15
Activity increases in empathy-related brain regions when children contribute to peers’ sadness and happiness14
From what I want to do to what we decided to do: 5-year-olds, but not 3-year-olds, honor their agreements with peers14
Mathematical skills of 11-year-old children born very preterm and full-term14
Tonal interference in word learning? A comparison of Cantonese and French14
Sex differences in direction giving: Are boys better than girls?14
Infant walking experience is related to the development of selective attention13
Children’s knowledge of superordinate words predicts subsequent inductive reasoning13
Observing parental behavior in challenging tasks: Its role for goal engagement and disengagement in children13
Cognitive processing features of elementary school children with mathematical anxiety: Attentional control theory-based explanation12
Learning science concepts through prompts to consider alternative possible worlds12
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The animals in moral tales: Does character realism influence children’s prosocial response to stories?12
Contributions of causal reasoning to early scientific literacy12
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Modeling item-level variance of polysyllabic word reading in developing readers: Exploring semantically related child, word, and child-by-word predictors12
Predicting mathematics achievement from subdomains of early number competence: Differences by grade and achievement level12
Multisensory and biomechanical influences on postural control in children12
From social inhibition in childhood to social facilitation in adulthood: How social presence systematically enhances the predominant response strategy in cognitive tasks12
Event-related potential correlates of implicit processing of own- and other-race faces in children12
Seeing is believing: Larger Colavita effect in school-aged children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder12
Infants’ and toddlers’ language development during the pandemic: Socioeconomic status mattered12
The number line estimation task is a valid tool for assessing mathematical achievement: A population-level study with 6484 Luxembourgish ninth-graders11
Finger counting, finger number gesturing, and basic numerical skills: A cross-sectional study in 3- to 5-year-olds11
The wind in the willows effect: Does age affect human versus animal faux pas recognition?11
Elucidating mechanisms linking mothers’ and fathers’ mind-mindedness in infancy with children’s self-regulation at early preschool age11
Children are eager to take credit for prosocial acts, and cost affects this tendency11
The development of self-initiated visuo-spatial working memory11
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Executive functions in deaf and hearing children: The mediating role of language skills in inhibitory control11
The development of third-party intervention in children aged 4–10: Balancing unfairness aversion and self-interest11
“Yay! Yuck!” toddlers use others’ emotional responses to reason about hidden objects11
Examining the cognitive and perceptual perspectives of music-to-language transfer: A study of Cantonese–English bilingual children10
Lying behavior in adolescents with conduct disorder: An experimental study of the role of executive functioning10
Children plan manual actions similarly in structured tasks and in free play10
Children can consider social relationships when evaluating liars10
Siblings at home: Moderating influence of sibling presence and composition on the relation between problem behaviors and Theory of Mind in early childhood10
Receptive and expressive vocabulary performance in 2- to 5-year-olds in care: The role of different care types and temperament10
Category learning is shaped by the multifaceted development of selective attention10
“But the poor needed it more”: Children’s judgments on procedural justice to allocate resources between two candidates equal in merit, different in need10
Sleep disturbances moderate the association between effortful control and executive functioning in early childhood10
Infants’ representation of asymmetric social influence10
The effect of feedback and recollection rejection instructions on the development of memory monitoring and accuracy10
Sources of variation in preschoolers’ relational reasoning: The interaction between language use and working memory10
Affordances of fractions and decimals for arithmetic among middle school students in the United States and China10
Associations between parents’ autonomy supportive management language and children’s science, technology, engineering, and mathematics talk during and after tinkering at home10
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
Children expect national group membership to guide food choice10
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Perceptual narrowing continues throughout childhood: Evidence from specialization of face processing10
The effect of visual parameters on nonsymbolic numerosity estimation varies depending on the format of stimulus presentation9
Developmental patterns and computational mechanisms of school-aged children’s fairness-related decision making under social comparison9
The relation of bilingual cognitive skills to the second language writing performance of primary grade students9
Infants’ intention-based evaluations of distributive actions9
Speech rate development in Japanese-speaking children and proficiency in mora-timed rhythm9
Preschoolers’ in-group bias promotes altruistic sharing and reduces second-party punishment: The role of theory of mind9
Balancing accuracy and speed in the development of inhibitory control9
Successful comparisons in novel word generalization: Executive functions or semantic knowledge?9
Preschool children weigh accuracy against partisanship when seeking information9
The longitudinal (in)stability and cognitive underpinnings of children’s cheating behavior9
Effects of praise and “easy” feedback on children’s persistence and self-evaluations9
Relieved or disappointed? Children’s understanding of how others feel at the cessation of events9
Episodic future thinking and delay of gratification in children: An individual differences study9
Understanding the link between theory of mind and loneliness among primary school students: A cross-lagged panel model analysis9
Parental criticism affects adolescents’ mood and ruminative state: Self-perception appears to influence their mood response9
Martial arts enhances working memory and attention in school-aged children: A functional near-infrared spectroscopy study9
In one ear and out the other: Verbal reminders do not improve young children’s prospective memory performance on a virtual task9
Parent education, not income-to-needs ratio, relates to preschool home executive function environment9
Reconsidering conceptual knowledge: Heterogeneity of its components9
The squeaky wheel gets the grease: Recipients’ responses influence children’s costly third-party punishment of unfairness9
Early presence of a “power = males” association: Girls link power to their gender less often than boys but can be as motivated to gain it9
Compensatory prosocial behavior in high-risk adolescents observing social exclusion: The effects of emotion feedback9
From age two, children use pronouns to predict who will speak next in conversation8
The development of spoken word recognition in informative and uninformative sentence contexts8
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Balanced time perspective and aggression in left-behind children: The mediating role of self-esteem8
Building lexical networks: Preschoolers extract different types of information in cross-situational learning8
Children use race to infer who is “in charge”8
The roles of behavioral and affective cues and false belief in children’s trait attributions8
Spatial associations of number and pitch in human newborns8
Even young children make multiple predictions in the complex visual world8
Cognitive and home predictors of precocious reading and math before formal education8
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Punish, compensate, or both? Children’s fairness decisions in varying choice contexts8
Impacts of number lines and circle visual displays on caregivers’ fraction understanding8
The developmental trajectories of implicit and explicit metacognitive monitoring and control in cued recall8
Chinese parents’ support of preschoolers’ mathematical development8
Cognitive and academic growth among emergent bilingual children at risk and not at risk for math difficulties8
Moral evaluations of children’s truths and lies in a prosocial context: The role of reputation8
Recognition of emotional body language from dyadic and monadic point-light displays in 5-year-old children and adults8
The development of children’s and adults’ use of kinematic cues for visual anticipation and verbal prediction of action8
Reduced perceptual span in dyslexic children: a gaze-contingent eye-tracking study8
Parenting style and the cognitive development of preschool-aged children: Evidence from rural China8
Children’s understanding of counterfactual and temporal relief in others8
Exploring the role of classroom quality and student-teacher relationship in the executive function and academic performance of first grade children7
Cognitive processes associated with working memory in children with developmental language disorder7
Longitudinal associations between parental mathematics anxiety and attitudes and young children’s mathematics attainment7
How are cognitive abilities and mathematical abilities related in early childhood? Unraveling the mediation mechanism and age-related influences7
Unveiling neurodevelopmental changes in multisensory integration while controlling attention7
Relations between parental metacognitive talk and children’s early metacognition and memory7
The role of social comparison and emotion in children’s fairness judgments7
Economic risk proneness in middle childhood: Uncertainty-driven exploration or novelty-seeking?7
Adaptive variability in children’s conceptual models of division7
Infants’ short-term memory for consonant–vowel syllables7
Sources of error in numerical estimation: Insights from the wisdom of crowds effect7
From error to insight: Removing non-systematic responding data in the delay discounting task may introduce systematic bias7
Evaluations of epistemic and practical reasons for belief in a predominantly White U.S. sample of preschoolers7
Attentional blink in infants under 7 months7
How youth think about structural, individual, and random sources of wealth inequality7
Turkish- and English-speaking 3-year-old children are sensitive to the evidential strength of claims when revising their beliefs7
Children’s science vocabulary uniquely predicts individual differences in science knowledge7
The roots of compassion in early childhood: Relationships between theory of mind and attachment representations with empathic concern and prosocial behavior7
“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 home7
Finger counting to relieve working memory in children with developmental coordination disorder: Insights from behavioral and three-dimensional motion analyses7
Does executive function moderate the spatial-math link in preschoolers?7
Dragging but not tapping promotes preschoolers’ numerical estimating with touchscreens7
Children’s expectations about the stability of others’ knowledge and preference states7
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Cross-linguistic relations of morphological awareness between Korean and English to language and reading skills for Korean adolescents7
Initial interactions matter: Warm-up play affects 2-year-olds’ cooperative ability with an unfamiliar same-aged peer7
Negative mood induction in children: An examination across mood, physiological, and cognitive variables7
Children infer counterfactual information from others’ facial expressions6
Give some, keep some, put some: The language of sharing in children6
Math talk by mothers, fathers, and toddlers: Differences across materials and associations with children’s math understanding6
A longitudinal study of theory of mind and listening comprehension: Is preschool theory of mind important?6
Can gamification improve children’s performance in mental rotation?6
How executive functioning, sentence processing, and vocabulary are related at 3 years of age6
Do preschoolers trust a competent robot pointer?6
Children endorse deterrence motivations for third-party punishment but derive higher enjoyment from compensating victims6
The role of conventionality and design in children’s function judgments about malfunctioning artifacts6
Developing mental number line games to improve young children’s number knowledge and basic arithmetic skills6
Inside a child’s mind: The relations between mind wandering and executive function across 8- to 12-year-olds6
A bird’s-eye view of research practices in mathematical cognition, learning, and instruction: Reimagining the status quo6
Considering the associations of adverse and positive childhood experiences with health behaviors and outcomes among emerging adults6
Children’s and adults’ social partner choices are differently affected by statistical information6
Tomorrow versus a year from now: Do children represent the near and distant future differently?6
Preference matters: Knowledge of beneficiary’s preference influences children’s evaluations of the act of leaving a choice for others6
Where does language come from? The development of a naïve biological understanding of language6
US and Korean children prefer equality, but Korean children are more tolerant of ingroup-favoring allocations6
Neural correlates of unconventional verb extensions reveal preschoolers’ analogical abilities6
Exploring relative strengths in people with Down syndrome: Spatial thinking and its role in mathematics6
High variability in learning materials benefits children’s pattern practice6
Children’s developing ability to recognize deceptive use of true information6
Testing the generalizability of minimal group attitudes in minority and majority race children6
Facial impressions of niceness influence children’s interpretations of peers’ ambiguous behavior6
Numerical Understanding Mentored by Expert Researchers (NUMBERs) workshop: Special issue overview6
A happy face advantage for pareidolic faces in children and adults6
The profit motive: Implications for children’s reasoning about merit-based resource distribution6
Adolescents’ state authenticity and inauthenticity when socialising online with a friend: Motivations in friendship6
But Why?: Children’s belief in the necessity of explanations6
The role of semantic similarity in verb learning events: Vocabulary-related changes across early development6
A structural equation model of emotion knowledge and verbal intelligence in peer acceptance in a sample of Portuguese preschoolers6
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 experienc6
Examining the relationship between psychosocial adversity and inhibitory control: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study of children growing up in extreme poverty6
Examining the factor structure of the home learning environment6
Schadenfreude or empathy? Children’s emotional responses to the physical pain and pleasure of prosocial and antisocial others6
Perception of visual and audiovisual trajectories toward and away from the body in the first postnatal year6
Rapport building with adolescents to enhance reporting and disclosure6
Intuitive mapping between nonsymbolic quantity and observed action across development6
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