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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
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“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 friends75
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Children's Theory of Mind and Family Socioeconomic Status: What Can Different Approaches and Contexts Tell Us About the Same Construct?17
Children's Perspective on Parental Lying and Its Effect on Trust: Co‐Creation of an Instrument and Pilot Results16
Adolescents’ moral reasoning when honesty and loyalty collide15
Development and validation of the Dutch Social Attunement Questionnaire (SAQ)15
Real‐Time Contingencies of Emotion Socialization During Parent–Adolescent Conflicts14
Predicting children's internalizing symptoms across development from early emotional reactivity14
Co‐Regulation Within Adolescent Friendships12
Trajectories of adolescents’ depressive symptoms surrounding the transition to vocational education12
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Using a Continuous Measure of Child Gender Identity to Explore Mother–Child Agreement11
What Are the Consequences of Online Civic Engagement for Youth? A Longitudinal Study of Bidirectional Links With Civic and Social Outcomes11
The power of teacher‐toddler relationships and stability of care for language development11
Chinese Parents’ Understanding and Socialization of Gratitude11
Gender essentialism predicts prejudice against gender nonconformity in two cultural contexts10
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Children's interpretations of parental responses to children's negative emotions in Chinese urban and rural communities10
A comparison of models for inferring longitudinal reciprocal relationships between constructs: A case example with internalizing and externalizing problems10
The role of between‐group competition in children's within‐group merit‐based resource allocation9
Longitudinal Associations Between Pubertal Development and Youth Behavioral Adjustment in the Context of Parent and Peer Relationships9
Children's and adolescents’ evaluations of wealth‐related STEM inequality9
Imaginary athletes: Prevalence, forms, and developmental functions9
Ethno‐Religious Socialization Among Majority and Minority Group Children in a Post‐Conflict Society8
Chaos, Distress and Crowding in the Home: Disentangling Associations With Child Behaviour8
Mr Predator and Mrs Prey: Gender Stereotypes in Children's Films Correlate With Explicit and Implicit Gender Stereotyping8
“We Might Get What We Need, but Not What We Want”: Children's and Adolescents' Perceptions of Subjective Socioeconomic Status in Türkiye8
Preschoolers' Gender Identification Rigidity Relates to Their Gender‐Typed Predictions for Others8
Trajectories of team and individual sports participation in childhood and links with internalizing problems8
Theory of mind, gender, gains in friendships versus peer acceptance and anxious solitude from middle childhood through early adolescence7
Executive Functioning Across the Transition to Kindergarten: Links With Social and Academic Outcomes in Early Childhood7
Parental warmth and guilt induction: Associations with prosocial behaviors and the mediating role of values in Chinese adolescents7
Dimensions of parenting during infancy: Testing a latent bifactor model7
Retrospective accounts of first exposure to minoritized sexual and gender identities7
Latine children's attributions of cultural and structural discrimination and the role of neighborhood context7
Parental Warmth and Emotion Reactivity in the Brain: Differences by Assigned Sex6
Firstborn Behavioral Problems Predict Later Sibling Relationship Quality: The Moderating Role of Maternal Sensitivity and Mind‐Mindedness6
Longitudinal trajectories of maternal parenting stress in Korean families: Children's executive function and school adjustment6
Infants follow the gaze of same‐age peers, young children, and adults6
A Latent Class Analysis Predicting STEM Career Interest and Perceptions of Barriers6
Family alliance and infants’ vagal tone: The mediating role of infants’ reactions to unadjusted parental behaviors5
Parental Threat Perception and Hyper‐Parenting as Potential Risk Factors for Adolescents’ Test Anxiety5
Longitudinal associations between coping and peer victimization: Moderation by gender and initial peer victimization5
“Like Two Musketeers”: Socialization beliefs about toddler's friendships among Dominican, Mexican, and African American mothers5
Social Cognitive Skills in African American Youth: Parental Cognitive Restructuring and Youth Support Seeking5
Supporting Early Social‐Emotional Competencies Through Reading and Play: Findings From an RCT of the Tiered Smart Beginnings Program5
Adaptation and validation of the French version of empathy questionnaire in preschoolers5
Does Theory of Mind Predict Social Withdrawal in 4–5‐Year‐Old Children? The Moderating Role of Emotion Contagion5
Earlier false belief understanding predicts later lie‐telling behavior in preschool children, but not vice versa5
Hostile Caregiving, ADHD Symptoms, and Child Behavior5
Ingroup and outgroup preference and rejection among young children of different ethnic groups in the Netherlands5
Metamotivational Beliefs in Middle Childhood: Evaluating Children's Understanding of Task‐Motivation Fit5
White Italian Parents’ Ethnic‐Racial Socialization and Young Children's Prosocial Behavior Toward Outgroup Peers4
Science resource inequalities viewed as less wrong when girls are disadvantaged4
Preschoolers’ responses to prosocial opportunities during naturalistic interactions with peers: A cross‐cultural comparison4
How children tell a (prosocial) lie from an (ironic) joke: The role of shared knowledge4
“Spilling the tea” on generation Z social media use and body image4
Linguistic but not minimal group membership modulates spontaneous level‐2 perspective interference in 8‐year‐old children4
Measuring social and emotional functioning as a facet of positive youth development among children and adolescents in special education and mental health treatment4
The effect of different types of social norms on children's sharing behavior: The roles of parents, teachers, and peers4
From Mother–Child Attachment Security in Toddlerhood to Moral Reasoning in Adolescence: The Moderating Role of Child Temperamental Fearfulness4
Virtual reality training to improve socio‐emotional functioning in adolescents with developmental language disorders: A multiple baseline effectiveness study4
How Family Assets and Debts Relate to Children's Achievement and Behavior Problems Across Development4
Age‐related differences in reasoning about the acceptability of eating animals4
Same gender typicality, risky technology use, and disordered eating among adolescents4
Differential Susceptibility to Friendship Quality: The Role of Need for Approval4
Early intergroup coalition: Toddlers attribute fair distributions to Black rather than White distributors4
Longitudinal associations between pet relationship quality and socio‐emotional functioning in early adolescence4
Developmental deviations in happy victimization across early childhood predict behavioral adjustment in middle childhood3
A Cross‐Cultural Study of Different Types of Shyness: Associations With Depression and Aggression in Canadian and Chinese Children3
Little Scientists & Social Apprentices: Active Word Learning in Dynamic Social Contexts Using a Transparent Dyadic Interaction Platform3
Early‐Life Antecedents of Distrust and Social Isolation in Adolescence: A Large‐Scale, Exploratory Analysis of the UK's Millennium Cohort Study3
Using Language to Test Developmental Differences in Attitudes Toward Solitude in Adolescents and Emerging Adults3
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
Paternal activation parenting and growth in children's inhibitory control across early childhood3
Parent Emotion Socialization Framework During Early Childhood in Eastern Cultures3
An Observational Study of Parents Reading a Storybook About Bullying to Their Young Child: Are Bystander Responses Discussed?3
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
Making “fast friends” online in middle childhood and early adolescence3
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Rejection or Tolerance of Bullies: The Roles of Descriptive, Injunctive, and Popularity Norms3
The effect of social inhibition on preschoolers' behavior problems: The moderating role of maternal parenting styles3
The Role of Caregiver Attachment in Vicarious Fear Learning in Children3
“Children Understand More at that Age”: African American, Mexican, Dominican, and Chinese Heritage US Mothers’ Conceptions of Race Readiness3
Dimensional model of socioemotional learning built on a large‐scale sample of Chilean students3
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Social intelligence as moderator in the relation between narcissism and aggression in at‐risk adolescents3
Adolescents’ and Their Friends’ Coping Strategies: Implications for Behaviors and Subjective Experiences During Problem Talk3
Peers’ emotionality and children's academic achievement in second grade: Testing the moderating role of children's behavioral self‐regulation3
Comparing methods of social preference assessment in childhood3
Mother‐child bidirectional influences in the development of concern for others: Disentangling positive parenting in two predominantly white, North American Samples3
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Parent‐reported problematic lying tendencies and BIS/BAS activity as predictors of children's antisocial lie‐telling2
Prenatal Sleep Quality, Neonatal Brain Volume, and Infant Emotion at 6 Months of Age2
Parental unconditional acceptance: An antidote to parental conditional regard2
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Solitary groups: A latent profile analysis of motivations for social withdrawal and experiences of solitude in late childhood and early adolescence2
Moderating Effects of Group‐ and Self‐Orientations on the Relations Between Peer Victimization and Adjustment in Chinese Adolescents2
Intimate partner violence and preschool self‐regulation: Examining the role of maternal emotion socialization in Black families2
Reputation and prosocial lies in development2
No one is going to recess: How children evaluate collective and targeted punishment2
Tracking Changes in Maternal Mind‐Mindedness Across Children's Transition to Siblinghood in China2
Investigating the skills of a preschool leader: A latent profile analysis2
The Effect of Pretend Play on Children's Social Competence: An Intervention Study in Early Childhood Education2
Systematic Review and Meta‐Analyses Reveal no Gender Difference in Neonatal Social Perception2
Using wearable sensors to explore schoolyard interactions of mainstreamed deaf and hard‐of‐hearing preadolescents2
Conscious selection: Critical consciousness informs cultivation of social networks in a living and learning community2
Examining links between affective empathy, cognitive empathy, and peer relationships at the transition to school2
Black adolescents’ support to the family and educational outcomes: Differences by household income2
Chinese adolescents’ attitudes and beliefs about shy, unsociable, and socially avoidant peers2
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Less is More: Parent Talk and Child Executive Function From Age 5 to 62
Developmental differences in young children's implied use of cognitive resources in their self‐regulation strategies2
Growth in Early Mother–Child Dyadic Qualities and Relations to Preschool Problem Behavior2
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Child temperamental negative affectivity moderates the relation between interparental conflict and child cortisol recovery2
Mothers’ communicative cues and the development of infants’ helping: Linking participation and problem solving in the first year of life2
Is It Corruption? Late Adolescents’ Moral and Nonmoral Judgments and Reasoning in Different Contexts2
Social reward predicts false belief understanding in Namibian Hai||om children2
Eight‐ to 12‐year‐old US children's emerging subjective social status identity and intergroup attitudes2
Children's understanding of values as mental concepts: Longitudinal changes and association with theory of mind1
Can You Make Me Laugh? Toddlers’ and Parents’ Shared Positive Expressions in Playful Interactions1
Parent‐child relationship buffers the impact of maternal psychological control on aggression in temperamentally surgent children1
Prosocial risk taking and interpersonal regret in children: An individual differences study1
The effect of intent and character information on children's evaluations of third‐party transgressions1
Preschool predictors of loneliness in school‐age children1
Trajectories of temperamental shyness and attention shifting in Chinese children and their relations to psychosocial adjustment at entry to elementary school1
“Direct Reciprocity” or “Indirect Reciprocity” ‐ The Mechanisms of Infants’ Sharing Behavior1
Parents’ differential trait, mental state, and coping talk about White and Black child storybook characters1
Is the development of diversification in executive functioning universal? Longitudinal evidence from Ghana1
Does Children's Developing Understanding of Linguistic Register Impact Their Social Preferences?1
A meta‐analysis of the association between teacher support and school engagement1
Secure attachment and social and personality outcomes: The moderating role of emerging adults’ autobiographical memories of parents1
Broadening gender self‐categorization development to include transgender identities1
Creation of an Adapted Short‐Form Version of The Coping With Toddlers’ Negative Emotions Scale, an Emotion Socialization Measure for Parents of Toddlers1
Is knowledge of racial identity development necessary? White transracial adoptive parents' intentions to promote Black adoptees’ racial‐ethnic identity1
Exploring Definitions and Experiences of Loneliness: Insights From Interviews With Children and Early Adolescents in Italy1
Assessing children's relationships with pet dogs: A multi‐method approach1
Trusting others who vary in consistency between their personal standards and behavior: Differences by age, gender, and honesty trust beliefs1
Text mining and sentiment analysis: A new lens to explore the emotion dynamics of mother‐child interactions1
Student, classroom, and teacher factors associated with teachers’ attunement to bullies and victims1
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Judgements of identity claims vary for monoracial and biracial people1
Hostile Attribution Biases and Evaluation of Vocally Enacted Responses to Peer Provocation in Early Adolescents1
The Bidirectional Relationship Between Connectedness to Nature and Empathy Among Adolescents and Gender Differences1
Trajectories of low‐income mothers’ and fathers’ engagement in learning activities and child socioemotional skills in middle childhood1
Turkish adaptation of the mindful parenting inventories for parents and children1
Emotion socialization in cultural context: Lessons from Asian‐heritage families1
Understanding Diverse Preschoolers’ Knowledge of Emotion Regulation Strategies1
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Examining the Interactions Between Subjective Social Status and Self‐Referential Processing on Social Anxiety and Depressive Symptoms in Early Adolescents1
Young Children Use Direct and Indirect Evidence in Their Inferential Reasoning1
Children's help‐seeking expectations during preschool years: The effects of situational stress levels and help‐seekers’ competence1
Empathy as a Risky Strength: Associations With Parent and Child Depressive Symptoms in Middle Childhood1
Preschool‐aged children's responses to unfairness and subsequent sharing behavior in dyadic contexts1
Young Children's Strategic Evaluation of Others’ Work1
Cross‐group contact predicts positive beliefs about girls’ and Black peers’ STEM abilities and occupational prospects1
Talking Minds: Group Gender Composition and Educators’ Mental State Language in Early Childhood Education and Care1
How Did the Relationship Between Technology Use and Sleep Change During the Pandemic for High Schoolers? Evidence from a County‐Wide Sample1
Within‐ and between‐person associations among internalizing and externalizing problems during middle childhood1
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Cultural differences in maternal emotion control values and children's expressive flexibility1
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Children's Decision‐Making About Others Reflects Gender Stereotypes More Than Race: Evidence From a US Sample1
Shyness, social engagement, and conversational response times in children's dyadic interactions with an unfamiliar peer1
The distinction between provoked and unprovoked aggression in toddlerhood, and associations with empathy‐related processes1
Repeated Transgressions Promote Costly Third‐Party Punishment in 6‐Year‐Olds1
Aggression in toddlers: Associations with temper loss and parent‐child conflict1
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