OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Social Development is 3. 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 2021-03-01 to 2025-03-01.)

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
How children tell a (prosocial) lie from an (ironic) joke: The role of shared knowledge	14
Social Development	14
Chinese children show racial and skin‐tone salience but little color evasion	13
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The effect of different types of social norms on children's sharing behavior: The roles of parents, teachers, and peers	12
Examining links between affective empathy, cognitive empathy, and peer relationships at the transition to school	12
Sex differences in the relation between body mass index trajectories and adolescent social adjustment	12
Predicting children's internalizing symptoms across development from early emotional reactivity	11
What mothers can do about their toddlers’ stranger anxiety	11
Individual difference in perceptions of social structure: Social standing predicts accuracy in social network perception	11
Development and validation of the Dutch Social Attunement Questionnaire (SAQ)	10
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Adolescents’ and emerging adults’ reminisces about emotions in the context of disclosing, concealing, and lying to parents	9
“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	9
Trajectories of adolescents’ depressive symptoms surrounding the transition to vocational education	8
Secure attachment and social and personality outcomes: The moderating role of emerging adults’ autobiographical memories of parents	8
Associations among child temperament, parenting, and young children's moral and conventional understanding: The moderating role of self‐regulation	7
Intimate partner violence and preschool self‐regulation: Examining the role of maternal emotion socialization in Black families	7
Maternal caregiving, prosocial behavior, and self‐esteem in middle childhood	7
Early intergroup coalition: Toddlers attribute fair distributions to Black rather than White distributors	7
Symbolic play as a zone of proximal development: An analysis of informational exchange	7
Mothers’ communicative cues and the development of infants’ helping: Linking participation and problem solving in the first year of life	7
Solitary groups: A latent profile analysis of motivations for social withdrawal and experiences of solitude in late childhood and early adolescence	7

Emotion socialization in cultural context: Lessons from Asian‐heritage families	6
Parental psychological control perceived in adolescence predicts jealousy toward romantic partners in emerging adulthood via insecure attachment	6
The development of emotion regulation in adolescence: What do we know and where to go next?	6
Adolescents’ moral reasoning when honesty and loyalty collide	6
Issue Information	6
Socioeconomic hardship, uncertainty about the future, and adolescent mental wellbeing over a year during the COVID‐19 pandemic	6
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“Spilling the tea” on generation Z social media use and body image	6
Interactions between relationship support from mothers, fathers, and best friends as related to adolescent adjustment during the transition to high school	5
Social reward predicts false belief understanding in Namibian Hai\|\|om children	5
Black adolescents’ support to the family and educational outcomes: Differences by household income	5
The effect of social inhibition on preschoolers' behavior problems: The moderating role of maternal parenting styles	5
Negotiating Whiteness: Exploring White elementary school‐age children's racial identity development	5
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Parents’ differential trait, mental state, and coping talk about White and Black child storybook characters	5
Ethnic‐racial socialization in Chinese American immigrant families: Associations with middle childhood ethnic identity	5
Group over need: Convergence in the influence of recipient characteristics on children's sharing in Iran and Canada	5
The distinction between provoked and unprovoked aggression in toddlerhood, and associations with empathy‐related processes	4
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Issue Information	4
Moral emotions in early childhood: Validation of the Chinese moral emotion questionnaire	4
Parental affective personality and children's self‐reported internalising and externalising behaviour	4
Family functioning and emotion socialization in Chinese two‐parent households: A person‐centered approach	4
No one is going to recess: How children evaluate collective and targeted punishment	4
What is the best model of grit among junior high students: Model selection, measurement invariance, and group difference	4
Children manage their reputation by caring about gossip	4
“Let's hang out!”: Understanding social ties among linguistically diverse youth in urban afterschool programs	4
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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
Concurrent and prospective effects of income, adversity, and parenting behaviors on middle‐childhood effortful control and adjustment	3
Chinese adolescents’ attitudes and beliefs about shy, unsociable, and socially avoidant peers	3
Social Development	3
Children's interpretations of parental responses to children's negative emotions in Chinese urban and rural communities	3
Cultural differences in maternal emotion control values and children's expressive flexibility	3
Predictive utility of a novel observational assessment of child coping	3
Navigating diversity: Maternal ideologies and associations with child interethnic prejudice in the Netherlands	3
Children's and adolescents’ evaluations of wealth‐related STEM inequality	3
Bullying and social goal‐setting in youth: A meta‐analysis	3
Reputation and prosocial lies in development	3
How bad is it to eat an intelligent chicken? Children's judgments of eating animals are less ‘self‐serving’ than adults	3
Virtual reality training to improve socio‐emotional functioning in adolescents with developmental language disorders: A multiple baseline effectiveness study	3
Advancements in observing behavior in preschool classrooms: A new audiovisual approach	3
A comparison of models for inferring longitudinal reciprocal relationships between constructs: A case example with internalizing and externalizing problems	3
The role of between‐group competition in children's within‐group merit‐based resource allocation	3
Children and Adults Hold Leaders as Both Responsible and Entitled	3
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Preschool predictors of loneliness in school‐age children	3
The power of teacher‐toddler relationships and stability of care for language development	3
Cultural divergence in children's selective word learning: Korean and Canadian children differ in their trust of adult informants	3
Children's inductive inferences about individuals with gender category uncertainty	3

Issue Information	3
Social Development	3
Imaginary athletes: Prevalence, forms, and developmental functions	3