Social Development

Papers
(The median citation count of Social Development is 1. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
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Adolescents’ moral reasoning when honesty and loyalty collide21
Trajectories of adolescents’ depressive symptoms surrounding the transition to vocational education20
Maternal caregiving, prosocial behavior, and self‐esteem in middle childhood18
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Adolescents’ and emerging adults’ reminisces about emotions in the context of disclosing, concealing, and lying to parents17
Predicting children's internalizing symptoms across development from early emotional reactivity17
“The chug is coming through!” “There's two chuggas!”: A longitudinal study of the social function of imitation in children's play with siblings and friends17
Development and validation of the Dutch Social Attunement Questionnaire (SAQ)17
Chinese Parents’ Understanding and Socialization of Gratitude16
Children's Theory of Mind and Family Socioeconomic Status: What Can Different Approaches and Contexts Tell Us About the Same Construct?16
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Gender essentialism predicts prejudice against gender nonconformity in two cultural contexts15
A comparison of models for inferring longitudinal reciprocal relationships between constructs: A case example with internalizing and externalizing problems14
The power of teacher‐toddler relationships and stability of care for language development13
Children's and adolescents’ evaluations of wealth‐related STEM inequality12
Children's interpretations of parental responses to children's negative emotions in Chinese urban and rural communities10
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Imaginary athletes: Prevalence, forms, and developmental functions9
The role of between‐group competition in children's within‐group merit‐based resource allocation9
Adolescent intergroup connections and their developmental benefits: Exploring contributions from social network analysis8
Capacity for social contingency detection continues to develop across adolescence8
Trajectories of team and individual sports participation in childhood and links with internalizing problems8
Parenting, young children's behavioral self‐regulation and the quality of their peer relationships8
Preschoolers' Gender Identification Rigidity Relates to Their Gender‐Typed Predictions for Others8
Retrospective accounts of first exposure to minoritized sexual and gender identities8
Parental warmth and guilt induction: Associations with prosocial behaviors and the mediating role of values in Chinese adolescents8
Theory of mind, gender, gains in friendships versus peer acceptance and anxious solitude from middle childhood through early adolescence8
Prosocial behaviour between siblings exposed to intimate partner violence7
Dimensions of parenting during infancy: Testing a latent bifactor model7
When does ownership matter? Parents’ reasoning about children's conflicts over possessions7
Latine children's attributions of cultural and structural discrimination and the role of neighborhood context7
Longitudinal trajectories of maternal parenting stress in Korean families: Children's executive function and school adjustment7
Executive Functioning Across the Transition to Kindergarten: Links With Social and Academic Outcomes in Early Childhood6
Between a boy and a girl: Measuring gender identity on a continuum6
Social goals and bullying: Examining the moderating role of self‐perceived popularity, social status insecurity and classroom variability in popularity6
“Like Two Musketeers”: Socialization beliefs about toddler's friendships among Dominican, Mexican, and African American mothers6
Infants follow the gaze of same‐age peers, young children, and adults6
A Latent Class Analysis Predicting STEM Career Interest and Perceptions of Barriers6
How do early family systems predict emotion recognition in middle childhood?6
Social Cognitive Skills in African American Youth: Parental Cognitive Restructuring and Youth Support Seeking5
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Academic development and disparities in linguistically diverse middle school classrooms: The role of social network equality and linguistic integration5
Ingroup and outgroup preference and rejection among young children of different ethnic groups in the Netherlands5
Longitudinal associations between coping and peer victimization: Moderation by gender and initial peer victimization5
Adaptation and validation of the French version of empathy questionnaire in preschoolers5
Family alliance and infants’ vagal tone: The mediating role of infants’ reactions to unadjusted parental behaviors5
How dislike and bullying co‐develop: A longitudinal study of negative relationships among children5
Social development quartet: Benefits of intergroup connections: Examining associations between peer networks and academic and socio‐emotional competencies of diverse youth5
Earlier false belief understanding predicts later lie‐telling behavior in preschool children, but not vice versa5
Two forms of mother–child reciprocity and their links to children's cooperativeness4
Linguistic but not minimal group membership modulates spontaneous level‐2 perspective interference in 8‐year‐old children4
Preschoolers’ responses to prosocial opportunities during naturalistic interactions with peers: A cross‐cultural comparison4
How being observed influences preschoolers’ emotions following (less) deserving help4
Empathy in preschool Portuguese children: Validation of the Empathy Questionnaire (EmQue)4
Science resource inequalities viewed as less wrong when girls are disadvantaged4
Measuring social and emotional functioning as a facet of positive youth development among children and adolescents in special education and mental health treatment4
Parental play supportiveness and kindergartners’ peer problems: Children's playfulness as a potential mediator4
Same gender typicality, risky technology use, and disordered eating among adolescents4
Longitudinal bidirectionality of emotion knowledge and inhibitory control in low‐income children using cross‐lagged panels4
Parent‐ and teacher‐rated emotion regulation strategies in relation to preschoolers’ attachment representations: A longitudinal perspective3
The influence of age and experience of (un)fairness on third‐party punishment in children3
Mother‐child bidirectional influences in the development of concern for others: Disentangling positive parenting in two predominantly white, North American Samples3
Long‐term implications of childhood and adolescent popularity for social behavior and status in emerging adulthood3
A 6‐year longitudinal exploration of diversity in ethnically/racially minoritized children's early peer circles3
Virtual reality training to improve socio‐emotional functioning in adolescents with developmental language disorders: A multiple baseline effectiveness study3
Longitudinal associations between pet relationship quality and socio‐emotional functioning in early adolescence3
“Spilling the tea” on generation Z social media use and body image3
Age‐related differences in reasoning about the acceptability of eating animals3
Social intelligence as moderator in the relation between narcissism and aggression in at‐risk adolescents3
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Developmental deviations in happy victimization across early childhood predict behavioral adjustment in middle childhood3
Siblings in lockdown: International evidence for birth order effects on child adjustment in the Covid19 pandemic3
Growth in positive relationship quality with mothers, fathers, and siblings and associations with depressive symptoms and emotionally supportive prosocial behaviors during the transition to adulthood3
Making “fast friends” online in middle childhood and early adolescence3
Children's inductive inferences about individuals with gender category uncertainty3
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The effect of different types of social norms on children's sharing behavior: The roles of parents, teachers, and peers3
Peers’ emotionality and children's academic achievement in second grade: Testing the moderating role of children's behavioral self‐regulation3
The effect of social inhibition on preschoolers' behavior problems: The moderating role of maternal parenting styles3
Spanish validation of the Emotion Regulation Checklist (ERC) in preschool and elementary children: Relationship with emotion knowledge3
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Paternal activation parenting and growth in children's inhibitory control across early childhood3
Toddler exuberance as an influence on positive social behavior in a high‐intensity context in middle childhood3
Parental affective personality and children's self‐reported internalising and externalising behaviour3
Comparing methods of social preference assessment in childhood3
Cultural variation in the early development of initiative in children's prosocial helping3
How children tell a (prosocial) lie from an (ironic) joke: The role of shared knowledge3
Early intergroup coalition: Toddlers attribute fair distributions to Black rather than White distributors3
Parent‐reported problematic lying tendencies and BIS/BAS activity as predictors of children's antisocial lie‐telling2
Investigating the skills of a preschool leader: A latent profile analysis2
Child temperamental negative affectivity moderates the relation between interparental conflict and child cortisol recovery2
Using wearable sensors to explore schoolyard interactions of mainstreamed deaf and hard‐of‐hearing preadolescents2
Systematic Review and Meta‐Analyses Reveal no Gender Difference in Neonatal Social Perception2
Examining links between affective empathy, cognitive empathy, and peer relationships at the transition to school2
No one is going to recess: How children evaluate collective and targeted punishment2
Children manage their reputation by caring about gossip2
Children's and adolescents’ evaluations of peers who challenge their group: The role of gender norms and identity2
Predictive utility of a novel observational assessment of child coping2
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The moderating effect of facial emotion recognition in maternal emotion socialization and child socioemotional adjustment2
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Conscious selection: Critical consciousness informs cultivation of social networks in a living and learning community2
Mothers’ communicative cues and the development of infants’ helping: Linking participation and problem solving in the first year of life2
Advancements in observing behavior in preschool classrooms: A new audiovisual approach2
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Reputation and prosocial lies in development2
Parental unconditional acceptance: An antidote to parental conditional regard2
The co‐evolution of friendship, defending behaviors, and peer victimization: A short‐term longitudinal social network analysis2
Dimensional model of socioemotional learning built on a large‐scale sample of Chilean students2
Developmental differences in young children's implied use of cognitive resources in their self‐regulation strategies2
Solitary groups: A latent profile analysis of motivations for social withdrawal and experiences of solitude in late childhood and early adolescence2
Concurrent and prospective effects of income, adversity, and parenting behaviors on middle‐childhood effortful control and adjustment2
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Black adolescents’ support to the family and educational outcomes: Differences by household income2
Intimate partner violence and preschool self‐regulation: Examining the role of maternal emotion socialization in Black families2
Assessing children's relationships with pet dogs: A multi‐method approach1
Broadening gender self‐categorization development to include transgender identities1
Chinese adolescents’ attitudes and beliefs about shy, unsociable, and socially avoidant peers1
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Preschool‐aged children's responses to unfairness and subsequent sharing behavior in dyadic contexts1
Correlates of children's sympathy: Recognition and regulation of sadness and anger1
Fighting stigma‐based bullying in primary school children: An experimental intervention using vicarious intergroup contact and social norms1
Young children's differential use of power during family conflict: A longitudinal study1
Aggression in toddlers: Associations with temper loss and parent‐child conflict1
A latent class examination of affinity for aloneness in late adolescence and emerging adulthood1
Is knowledge of racial identity development necessary? White transracial adoptive parents' intentions to promote Black adoptees’ racial‐ethnic identity1
Children's understanding of values as mental concepts: Longitudinal changes and association with theory of mind1
Repeated Transgressions Promote Costly Third‐Party Punishment in 6‐Year‐Olds1
Turkish adaptation of the mindful parenting inventories for parents and children1
Through thick and thin?: Young adults’ implicit beliefs about friendship and their reported use of dissolution and maintenance strategies with same‐gender friends1
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Social reward predicts false belief understanding in Namibian Hai||om children1
Preschool predictors of loneliness in school‐age children1
Shyness, social engagement, and conversational response times in children's dyadic interactions with an unfamiliar peer1
Empathy as a Risky Strength: Associations With Parent and Child Depressive Symptoms in Middle Childhood1
Judgements of identity claims vary for monoracial and biracial people1
Trusting others who vary in consistency between their personal standards and behavior: Differences by age, gender, and honesty trust beliefs1
Within‐ and between‐person associations among internalizing and externalizing problems during middle childhood1
Sulking behavior and the emergence of hurt feelings in young children1
Parent‐child relationship buffers the impact of maternal psychological control on aggression in temperamentally surgent children1
Parental emotion coaching moderates the effects of family stress on internalizing symptoms in middle childhood and adolescence1
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Decisions and mechanisms of intergroup bias in children's third‐party punishment1
Children's help‐seeking expectations during preschool years: The effects of situational stress levels and help‐seekers’ competence1
Need, effort, or integration? The development of intuitive distributive justice decisions in children, adolescents, and adults1
The effects of parenting styles and parental positivity on preschoolers’ self‐perception1
Eight‐ to 12‐year‐old US children's emerging subjective social status identity and intergroup attitudes1
The effect of intent and character information on children's evaluations of third‐party transgressions1
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Student, classroom, and teacher factors associated with teachers’ attunement to bullies and victims1
Trajectories of temperamental shyness and attention shifting in Chinese children and their relations to psychosocial adjustment at entry to elementary school1
Is the development of diversification in executive functioning universal? Longitudinal evidence from Ghana1
Text mining and sentiment analysis: A new lens to explore the emotion dynamics of mother‐child interactions1
Emotion matters in early polite lies: Preschoolers’ polite lie‐telling in relation to cognitive and emotion‐related abilities1
Cross‐group contact predicts positive beliefs about girls’ and Black peers’ STEM abilities and occupational prospects1
A meta‐analysis of the association between teacher support and school engagement1
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