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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Social Development21
Chinese Parents’ Understanding and Socialization of Gratitude20
Maternal caregiving, prosocial behavior, and self‐esteem in middle childhood19
Children's Theory of Mind and Family Socioeconomic Status: What Can Different Approaches and Contexts Tell Us About the Same Construct?19
Development and validation of the Dutch Social Attunement Questionnaire (SAQ)19
Predicting children's internalizing symptoms across development from early emotional reactivity18
“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
Trajectories of adolescents’ depressive symptoms surrounding the transition to vocational education17
Adolescents’ moral reasoning when honesty and loyalty collide17
Adolescents’ and emerging adults’ reminisces about emotions in the context of disclosing, concealing, and lying to parents16
16
Social Development16
Imaginary athletes: Prevalence, forms, and developmental functions14
The role of between‐group competition in children's within‐group merit‐based resource allocation14
Children's interpretations of parental responses to children's negative emotions in Chinese urban and rural communities14
The power of teacher‐toddler relationships and stability of care for language development12
Trajectories of team and individual sports participation in childhood and links with internalizing problems11
Children's and adolescents’ evaluations of wealth‐related STEM inequality10
A comparison of models for inferring longitudinal reciprocal relationships between constructs: A case example with internalizing and externalizing problems10
Preschoolers' Gender Identification Rigidity Relates to Their Gender‐Typed Predictions for Others9
Capacity for social contingency detection continues to develop across adolescence9
Adolescent intergroup connections and their developmental benefits: Exploring contributions from social network analysis9
Parental warmth and guilt induction: Associations with prosocial behaviors and the mediating role of values in Chinese adolescents9
Theory of mind, gender, gains in friendships versus peer acceptance and anxious solitude from middle childhood through early adolescence9
Gender essentialism predicts prejudice against gender nonconformity in two cultural contexts9
Infants follow the gaze of same‐age peers, young children, and adults8
Mr Predator and Mrs Prey: Gender Stereotypes in Children's Films Correlate With Explicit and Implicit Gender Stereotyping8
A Latent Class Analysis Predicting STEM Career Interest and Perceptions of Barriers8
When does ownership matter? Parents’ reasoning about children's conflicts over possessions8
Parenting, young children's behavioral self‐regulation and the quality of their peer relationships8
Executive Functioning Across the Transition to Kindergarten: Links With Social and Academic Outcomes in Early Childhood8
Longitudinal trajectories of maternal parenting stress in Korean families: Children's executive function and school adjustment8
How do early family systems predict emotion recognition in middle childhood?7
Retrospective accounts of first exposure to minoritized sexual and gender identities7
Social goals and bullying: Examining the moderating role of self‐perceived popularity, social status insecurity and classroom variability in popularity7
Social Cognitive Skills in African American Youth: Parental Cognitive Restructuring and Youth Support Seeking6
How being observed influences preschoolers’ emotions following (less) deserving help6
Latine children's attributions of cultural and structural discrimination and the role of neighborhood context6
Between a boy and a girl: Measuring gender identity on a continuum6
Social development quartet: Benefits of intergroup connections: Examining associations between peer networks and academic and socio‐emotional competencies of diverse youth6
Dimensions of parenting during infancy: Testing a latent bifactor model6
6
Academic development and disparities in linguistically diverse middle school classrooms: The role of social network equality and linguistic integration6
Prosocial behaviour between siblings exposed to intimate partner violence6
Longitudinal associations between coping and peer victimization: Moderation by gender and initial peer victimization5
Ingroup and outgroup preference and rejection among young children of different ethnic groups in the Netherlands5
Earlier false belief understanding predicts later lie‐telling behavior in preschool children, but not vice versa5
How dislike and bullying co‐develop: A longitudinal study of negative relationships among children5
Family alliance and infants’ vagal tone: The mediating role of infants’ reactions to unadjusted parental behaviors5
Same gender typicality, risky technology use, and disordered eating among adolescents5
Two forms of mother–child reciprocity and their links to children's cooperativeness5
Parental play supportiveness and kindergartners’ peer problems: Children's playfulness as a potential mediator5
Adaptation and validation of the French version of empathy questionnaire in preschoolers5
“Like Two Musketeers”: Socialization beliefs about toddler's friendships among Dominican, Mexican, and African American mothers5
Longitudinal associations between pet relationship quality and socio‐emotional functioning in early adolescence4
Linguistic but not minimal group membership modulates spontaneous level‐2 perspective interference in 8‐year‐old children4
Longitudinal bidirectionality of emotion knowledge and inhibitory control in low‐income children using cross‐lagged panels4
How children tell a (prosocial) lie from an (ironic) joke: The role of shared knowledge4
The effect of different types of social norms on children's sharing behavior: The roles of parents, teachers, and peers4
Differential Susceptibility to Friendship Quality: The Role of Need for Approval4
Measuring social and emotional functioning as a facet of positive youth development among children and adolescents in special education and mental health treatment4
Empathy in preschool Portuguese children: Validation of the Empathy Questionnaire (EmQue)4
Early intergroup coalition: Toddlers attribute fair distributions to Black rather than White distributors4
Preschoolers’ responses to prosocial opportunities during naturalistic interactions with peers: A cross‐cultural comparison4
Science resource inequalities viewed as less wrong when girls are disadvantaged4
Age‐related differences in reasoning about the acceptability of eating animals4
Cultural variation in the early development of initiative in children's prosocial helping4
“Spilling the tea” on generation Z social media use and body image4
Comparing methods of social preference assessment in childhood3
Developmental deviations in happy victimization across early childhood predict behavioral adjustment in middle childhood3
Virtual reality training to improve socio‐emotional functioning in adolescents with developmental language disorders: A multiple baseline effectiveness study3
Long‐term implications of childhood and adolescent popularity for social behavior and status in emerging adulthood3
How Should We Treat Farmed Animals? Adolescents Are More Speciesist Than Adults3
Child temperamental negative affectivity moderates the relation between interparental conflict and child cortisol recovery3
Toddler exuberance as an influence on positive social behavior in a high‐intensity context in middle childhood3
3
Rejection or Tolerance of Bullies: The Roles of Descriptive, Injunctive, and Popularity Norms3
A 6‐year longitudinal exploration of diversity in ethnically/racially minoritized children's early peer circles3
Siblings in lockdown: International evidence for birth order effects on child adjustment in the Covid19 pandemic3
Parental affective personality and children's self‐reported internalising and externalising behaviour3
The effect of social inhibition on preschoolers' behavior problems: The moderating role of maternal parenting styles3
Social Development3
Social intelligence as moderator in the relation between narcissism and aggression in at‐risk adolescents3
Systematic Review and Meta‐Analyses Reveal no Gender Difference in Neonatal Social Perception3
Paternal activation parenting and growth in children's inhibitory control across early childhood3
Spanish validation of the Emotion Regulation Checklist (ERC) in preschool and elementary children: Relationship with emotion knowledge3
Children's inductive inferences about individuals with gender category uncertainty3
Mother‐child bidirectional influences in the development of concern for others: Disentangling positive parenting in two predominantly white, North American Samples3
The influence of age and experience of (un)fairness on third‐party punishment in children3
Issue Information3
Making “fast friends” online in middle childhood and early adolescence3
Using wearable sensors to explore schoolyard interactions of mainstreamed deaf and hard‐of‐hearing preadolescents3
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
Parent‐ and teacher‐rated emotion regulation strategies in relation to preschoolers’ attachment representations: A longitudinal perspective3
Peers’ emotionality and children's academic achievement in second grade: Testing the moderating role of children's behavioral self‐regulation3
Social Development3
Social Development2
The co‐evolution of friendship, defending behaviors, and peer victimization: A short‐term longitudinal social network analysis2
Issue Information2
2
Preschool‐aged children's responses to unfairness and subsequent sharing behavior in dyadic contexts2
Children manage their reputation by caring about gossip2
2
Advancements in observing behavior in preschool classrooms: A new audiovisual approach2
Reputation and prosocial lies in development2
Children's and adolescents’ evaluations of peers who challenge their group: The role of gender norms and identity2
Examining links between affective empathy, cognitive empathy, and peer relationships at the transition to school2
Parent‐reported problematic lying tendencies and BIS/BAS activity as predictors of children's antisocial lie‐telling2
Developmental differences in young children's implied use of cognitive resources in their self‐regulation strategies2
The moderating effect of facial emotion recognition in maternal emotion socialization and child socioemotional adjustment2
Conscious selection: Critical consciousness informs cultivation of social networks in a living and learning community2
Preschool predictors of loneliness in school‐age children2
2
Social reward predicts false belief understanding in Namibian Hai||om children2
Concurrent and prospective effects of income, adversity, and parenting behaviors on middle‐childhood effortful control and adjustment2
Social Development2
Investigating the skills of a preschool leader: A latent profile analysis2
Mothers’ communicative cues and the development of infants’ helping: Linking participation and problem solving in the first year of life2
Parental unconditional acceptance: An antidote to parental conditional regard2
Social Development2
Dimensional model of socioemotional learning built on a large‐scale sample of Chilean students2
2
No one is going to recess: How children evaluate collective and targeted punishment2
Black adolescents’ support to the family and educational outcomes: Differences by household income2
Eight‐ to 12‐year‐old US children's emerging subjective social status identity and intergroup attitudes2
Predictive utility of a novel observational assessment of child coping2
Chinese adolescents’ attitudes and beliefs about shy, unsociable, and socially avoidant peers2
Intimate partner violence and preschool self‐regulation: Examining the role of maternal emotion socialization in Black families2
Solitary groups: A latent profile analysis of motivations for social withdrawal and experiences of solitude in late childhood and early adolescence2
Parental emotion coaching moderates the effects of family stress on internalizing symptoms in middle childhood and adolescence1
1
Social Development1
Secure attachment and social and personality outcomes: The moderating role of emerging adults’ autobiographical memories of parents1
Prosocial risk taking and interpersonal regret in children: An individual differences study1
Parent‐child relationship buffers the impact of maternal psychological control on aggression in temperamentally surgent children1
Young Children's Strategic Evaluation of Others’ Work1
Correlates of children's sympathy: Recognition and regulation of sadness and anger1
Trusting others who vary in consistency between their personal standards and behavior: Differences by age, gender, and honesty trust beliefs1
Is knowledge of racial identity development necessary? White transracial adoptive parents' intentions to promote Black adoptees’ racial‐ethnic identity1
Emotion matters in early polite lies: Preschoolers’ polite lie‐telling in relation to cognitive and emotion‐related abilities1
Assessing children's relationships with pet dogs: A multi‐method approach1
The effect of intent and character information on children's evaluations of third‐party transgressions1
Turkish adaptation of the mindful parenting inventories for parents and children1
Children's help‐seeking expectations during preschool years: The effects of situational stress levels and help‐seekers’ competence1
Young children's differential use of power during family conflict: A longitudinal study1
Young Children Use Direct and Indirect Evidence in Their Inferential Reasoning1
Emotion socialization in cultural context: Lessons from Asian‐heritage families1
Fighting stigma‐based bullying in primary school children: An experimental intervention using vicarious intergroup contact and social norms1
Decisions and mechanisms of intergroup bias in children's third‐party punishment1
Student, classroom, and teacher factors associated with teachers’ attunement to bullies and victims1
Through thick and thin?: Young adults’ implicit beliefs about friendship and their reported use of dissolution and maintenance strategies with same‐gender friends1
Aggression in toddlers: Associations with temper loss and parent‐child conflict1
Empathy as a Risky Strength: Associations With Parent and Child Depressive Symptoms in Middle Childhood1
Repeated Transgressions Promote Costly Third‐Party Punishment in 6‐Year‐Olds1
A latent class examination of affinity for aloneness in late adolescence and emerging adulthood1
Children's understanding of values as mental concepts: Longitudinal changes and association with theory of mind1
Cross‐group contact predicts positive beliefs about girls’ and Black peers’ STEM abilities and occupational prospects1
Need, effort, or integration? The development of intuitive distributive justice decisions in children, adolescents, and adults1
Moral emotions in early childhood: Validation of the Chinese moral emotion questionnaire1
Does Children's Developing Understanding of Linguistic Register Impact Their Social Preferences?1
Sulking behavior and the emergence of hurt feelings in young children1
A meta‐analysis of the association between teacher support and school engagement1
What mothers can do about their toddlers’ stranger anxiety1
Shyness, social engagement, and conversational response times in children's dyadic interactions with an unfamiliar peer1
Judgements of identity claims vary for monoracial and biracial people1
Broadening gender self‐categorization development to include transgender identities1
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
Within‐ and between‐person associations among internalizing and externalizing problems during middle childhood1
The effects of parenting styles and parental positivity on preschoolers’ self‐perception1
Text mining and sentiment analysis: A new lens to explore the emotion dynamics of mother‐child interactions1
0.41981101036072