OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
What you really want: Two‐year‐olds prioritise ultimate goals when helping	26
Developmental changes in mothers’ perception of knowledge, solicitation, and child disclosure during middle childhood	15
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How children tell a (prosocial) lie from an (ironic) joke: The role of shared knowledge	14
Sex differences in the relation between body mass index trajectories and adolescent social adjustment	13
Chinese children show racial and skin‐tone salience but little color evasion	13
Examining links between affective empathy, cognitive empathy, and peer relationships at the transition to school	12
Individual difference in perceptions of social structure: Social standing predicts accuracy in social network perception	12
The effect of different types of social norms on children's sharing behavior: The roles of parents, teachers, and peers	12
What mothers can do about their toddlers’ stranger anxiety	11
“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 friends	11
Predicting children's internalizing symptoms across development from early emotional reactivity	11
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Adolescents’ and emerging adults’ reminisces about emotions in the context of disclosing, concealing, and lying to parents	9
Secure attachment and social and personality outcomes: The moderating role of emerging adults’ autobiographical memories of parents	9
Trajectories of adolescents’ depressive symptoms surrounding the transition to vocational education	9
Early intergroup coalition: Toddlers attribute fair distributions to Black rather than White distributors	8
Solitary groups: A latent profile analysis of motivations for social withdrawal and experiences of solitude in late childhood and early adolescence	8
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Symbolic play as a zone of proximal development: An analysis of informational exchange	7
Intimate partner violence and preschool self‐regulation: Examining the role of maternal emotion socialization in Black families	7
Adolescents’ moral reasoning when honesty and loyalty collide	7
Associations among child temperament, parenting, and young children's moral and conventional understanding: The moderating role of self‐regulation	7
Parental psychological control perceived in adolescence predicts jealousy toward romantic partners in emerging adulthood via insecure attachment	7
Emotion socialization in cultural context: Lessons from Asian‐heritage families	7

Mothers’ communicative cues and the development of infants’ helping: Linking participation and problem solving in the first year of life	7
Development and validation of the Dutch Social Attunement Questionnaire (SAQ)	6
Group over need: Convergence in the influence of recipient characteristics on children's sharing in Iran and Canada	6
Maternal caregiving, prosocial behavior, and self‐esteem in middle childhood	6
Socioeconomic hardship, uncertainty about the future, and adolescent mental wellbeing over a year during the COVID‐19 pandemic	6
Physiological substrates of imagination in early childhood	6
The development of emotion regulation in adolescence: What do we know and where to go next?	6
The effect of imagined contact valence on adolescents’ and early adults’ stereotypes, emotions, and behavioral intentions toward ethnic groups	6
“Spilling the tea” on generation Z social media use and body image	6
Social Development	6
A comparison of models for inferring longitudinal reciprocal relationships between constructs: A case example with internalizing and externalizing problems	5
Trajectories of team and individual sports participation in childhood and links with internalizing problems	5
Black adolescents’ support to the family and educational outcomes: Differences by household income	5
The distinction between provoked and unprovoked aggression in toddlerhood, and associations with empathy‐related processes	5
Issue Information	5
Social Development	5
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Negotiating Whiteness: Exploring White elementary school‐age children's racial identity development	5
Predictive utility of a novel observational assessment of child coping	5
What is the best model of grit among junior high students: Model selection, measurement invariance, and group difference	5
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Maternal sensitivity and non‐intrusiveness at 12 months predict attention to emotional facial expressions at 24 months: A cross‐lagged panel approach	4
Children's and adolescents’ evaluations of wealth‐related STEM inequality	4
Children manage their reputation by caring about gossip	4
Issue Information	4
Cultural divergence in children's selective word learning: Korean and Canadian children differ in their trust of adult informants	4
“Let's hang out!”: Understanding social ties among linguistically diverse youth in urban afterschool programs	4
Bullying and social goal‐setting in youth: A meta‐analysis	4
Trajectories of low‐income mothers’ and fathers’ engagement in learning activities and child socioemotional skills in middle childhood	4
How bad is it to eat an intelligent chicken? Children's judgments of eating animals are less ‘self‐serving’ than adults	4
Moral emotions in early childhood: Validation of the Chinese moral emotion questionnaire	3
The role of between‐group competition in children's within‐group merit‐based resource allocation	3
Reputation and prosocial lies in development	3
Social Development	3
Issue Information	3
Children's inductive inferences about individuals with gender category uncertainty	3
Young children evaluate and follow others’ arguments when forming and revising beliefs	3
Gender essentialism predicts prejudice against gender nonconformity in two cultural contexts	3
A social identity perspective on conformity to cyber aggression among early adolescents on WhatsApp	3
Comparing methods of social preference assessment in childhood	3
Family functioning and emotion socialization in Chinese two‐parent households: A person‐centered approach	3
Children's interpretations of parental responses to children's negative emotions in Chinese urban and rural communities	3
Chinese adolescents’ attitudes and beliefs about shy, unsociable, and socially avoidant peers	3
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The power of teacher‐toddler relationships and stability of care for language development	3
Preschool predictors of loneliness in school‐age children	3
Is the majority always right? Young children's normative interpretations of majority and dissenting peer behavior	3
Eight‐ to 12‐year‐old US children's emerging subjective social status identity and intergroup attitudes	3
Quality over quantity: A transactional model of social withdrawal and friendship development in late adolescence	3
How are mental state references represented in English and Japanese picture books? An analysis of the frequency of emotional and cognitive words and their relation to the self or others	3

No one is going to recess: How children evaluate collective and targeted punishment	3
Navigating diversity: Maternal ideologies and associations with child interethnic prejudice in the Netherlands	3
Advancements in observing behavior in preschool classrooms: A new audiovisual approach	3
Concurrent and prospective effects of income, adversity, and parenting behaviors on middle‐childhood effortful control and adjustment	3
Cultural differences in maternal emotion control values and children's expressive flexibility	3
Parents’ differential trait, mental state, and coping talk about White and Black child storybook characters	3
Parental affective personality and children's self‐reported internalising and externalising behaviour	3
Children's and adolescents’ evaluations of peers who challenge their group: The role of gender norms and identity	3
The effect of social inhibition on preschoolers' behavior problems: The moderating role of maternal parenting styles	2
Virtual reality training to improve socio‐emotional functioning in adolescents with developmental language disorders: A multiple baseline effectiveness study	2
Making “fast friends” online in middle childhood and early adolescence	2
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Predicting the development of dependency on the teacher in late childhood: The role of peer victimization and peer beliefs	2
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Social reward predicts false belief understanding in Namibian Hai\|\|om children	2
Interactions between relationship support from mothers, fathers, and best friends as related to adolescent adjustment during the transition to high school	2
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Issue Information	2
Long‐term implications of childhood and adolescent popularity for social behavior and status in emerging adulthood	2
Peer persuasion strategies during rule following in 4‐ to 6‐year‐olds	2
Social intelligence as moderator in the relation between narcissism and aggression in at‐risk adolescents	2
Parenting, young children's behavioral self‐regulation and the quality of their peer relationships	2
Children and Adults Hold Leaders as Both Responsible and Entitled	2
Ethnic‐racial socialization in Chinese American immigrant families: Associations with middle childhood ethnic identity	2
Achieving status and reducing loneliness during the transition to college: The role of entitlement, intrasexual competitiveness, and dominance	2
Growth in positive relationship quality with mothers, fathers, and siblings and associations with depressive symptoms and emotionally supportive prosocial behaviors during the transition to adulthood	2
Turkish adaptation of the mindful parenting inventories for parents and children	2
Preschool‐aged children's responses to unfairness and subsequent sharing behavior in dyadic contexts	2
Encouraging a peer in need: The impacts of social anxiety and peer familiarity	2
Peers’ emotionality and children's academic achievement in second grade: Testing the moderating role of children's behavioral self‐regulation	2
Imaginary athletes: Prevalence, forms, and developmental functions	2
Children's understanding of values as mental concepts: Longitudinal changes and association with theory of mind	1
Social Development	1
A transactional model of expressive control and inhibitory control across childhood	1
Longitudinal study examining academic expectation stress and distrust for Chinese adolescents: The roles of internalizing problems and hope	1
Time alone well spent? A person‐centered analysis of adolescents' solitary activities	1
Social Development	1
Parent‐child relationship buffers the impact of maternal psychological control on aggression in temperamentally surgent children	1
Longitudinal trajectories of maternal parenting stress in Korean families: Children's executive function and school adjustment	1
A latent class examination of affinity for aloneness in late adolescence and emerging adulthood	1
Associations between dyadic language style matching and classroom observations of behaviorally inhibited children's sociability	1
The effects of parenting styles and parental positivity on preschoolers’ self‐perception	1
The feeling thinking talking intervention with teachers advances young children's emotion knowledge	1
Parent emotion talk with preschoolers from low‐income Mexican American and Chinese American families: Links to sociocultural factors	1
Social goals and bullying: Examining the moderating role of self‐perceived popularity, social status insecurity and classroom variability in popularity	1
Peer attachment in adolescence: What are the individual and relational associated factors?	1
Text mining and sentiment analysis: A new lens to explore the emotion dynamics of mother‐child interactions	1
Development of synchrony‐dominant expectations in observers	1
The effect of intent and character information on children's evaluations of third‐party transgressions	1
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Preschoolers’ moral judgment and punishment attribution: Longitudinal links to theory of mind and emotion understanding	1
Social support and motivation for parenthood as resources against prenatal parental distress	1
Parental emotion coaching moderates the effects of family stress on internalizing symptoms in middle childhood and adolescence	1
Connecting adolescent friendships to physical health outcomes: A narrative review	1
When does ownership matter? Parents’ reasoning about children's conflicts over possessions	1
Examining launch and snare effects in the longitudinal associations between shyness and socio‐emotional difficulties in childhood	1
Paternal activation parenting and growth in children's inhibitory control across early childhood	1
Toddler exuberance as an influence on positive social behavior in a high‐intensity context in middle childhood	1
Within‐ and between‐person associations among internalizing and externalizing problems during middle childhood	1
Assessing children's relationships with pet dogs: A multi‐method approach	1
Making the case for youth participatory action research opportunities to enhance social developmental scholarship	1
Children's help‐seeking expectations during preschool years: The effects of situational stress levels and help‐seekers’ competence	1
Adolescent intergroup connections and their developmental benefits: Exploring contributions from social network analysis	1
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Capacity for social contingency detection continues to develop across adolescence	1
A 6‐year longitudinal exploration of diversity in ethnically/racially minoritized children's early peer circles	1
Domain‐general or specific: How is children's understanding of deception socialized?	1
Through thick and thin?: Young adults’ implicit beliefs about friendship and their reported use of dissolution and maintenance strategies with same‐gender friends	1
Parental warmth and guilt induction: Associations with prosocial behaviors and the mediating role of values in Chinese adolescents	1
Self‐perceptions moderate the effect of implicit theories on preadolescent's attributions of their positive and negative social experiences	1
Parent‐ and teacher‐rated emotion regulation strategies in relation to preschoolers’ attachment representations: A longitudinal perspective	1
Cross‐group contact predicts positive beliefs about girls’ and Black peers’ STEM abilities and occupational prospects	1
Adolescents’ perceptions of social risk and prosocial tendencies: Developmental change and individual differences	1
Theory of mind, gender, gains in friendships versus peer acceptance and anxious solitude from middle childhood through early adolescence	1
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If looks could talk: Threat and familiarity influence with whom and how infants interact in ambiguous situations	1