OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Social Development is 4. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Chinese Parents’ Understanding and Socialization of Gratitude	37
Children's Theory of Mind and Family Socioeconomic Status: What Can Different Approaches and Contexts Tell Us About the Same Construct?	30
Children's Perspective on Parental Lying and Its Effect on Trust: Co‐Creation of an Instrument and Pilot Results	27
“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	22
Maternal caregiving, prosocial behavior, and self‐esteem in middle childhood	22
Social Development	21
Adolescents’ moral reasoning when honesty and loyalty collide	21
Development and validation of the Dutch Social Attunement Questionnaire (SAQ)	18
Trajectories of adolescents’ depressive symptoms surrounding the transition to vocational education	18
Predicting children's internalizing symptoms across development from early emotional reactivity	14
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Trajectories of team and individual sports participation in childhood and links with internalizing problems	12
The power of teacher‐toddler relationships and stability of care for language development	12
A comparison of models for inferring longitudinal reciprocal relationships between constructs: A case example with internalizing and externalizing problems	11
Social Development	11
Children's and adolescents’ evaluations of wealth‐related STEM inequality	11
Children's interpretations of parental responses to children's negative emotions in Chinese urban and rural communities	11
Imaginary athletes: Prevalence, forms, and developmental functions	11
Gender essentialism predicts prejudice against gender nonconformity in two cultural contexts	11
Mr Predator and Mrs Prey: Gender Stereotypes in Children's Films Correlate With Explicit and Implicit Gender Stereotyping	10
Capacity for social contingency detection continues to develop across adolescence	10
Parenting, young children's behavioral self‐regulation and the quality of their peer relationships	10
Parental warmth and guilt induction: Associations with prosocial behaviors and the mediating role of values in Chinese adolescents	10
Preschoolers' Gender Identification Rigidity Relates to Their Gender‐Typed Predictions for Others	10
The role of between‐group competition in children's within‐group merit‐based resource allocation	10

Latine children's attributions of cultural and structural discrimination and the role of neighborhood context	9
When does ownership matter? Parents’ reasoning about children's conflicts over possessions	9
Infants follow the gaze of same‐age peers, young children, and adults	9
Theory of mind, gender, gains in friendships versus peer acceptance and anxious solitude from middle childhood through early adolescence	9
Retrospective accounts of first exposure to minoritized sexual and gender identities	9
Adolescent intergroup connections and their developmental benefits: Exploring contributions from social network analysis	9
Metamotivational Beliefs in Middle Childhood: Evaluating Children's Understanding of Task‐Motivation Fit	8
Executive Functioning Across the Transition to Kindergarten: Links With Social and Academic Outcomes in Early Childhood	8
Firstborn Behavioral Problems Predict Later Sibling Relationship Quality: The Moderating Role of Maternal Sensitivity and Mind‐Mindedness	8
Longitudinal trajectories of maternal parenting stress in Korean families: Children's executive function and school adjustment	8
A Latent Class Analysis Predicting STEM Career Interest and Perceptions of Barriers	7
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Parental Warmth and Emotion Reactivity in the Brain: Differences by Assigned Sex	7
Dimensions of parenting during infancy: Testing a latent bifactor model	7
Between a boy and a girl: Measuring gender identity on a continuum	7
Prosocial behaviour between siblings exposed to intimate partner violence	7
Supporting Early Social‐Emotional Competencies Through Reading and Play: Findings From an RCT of the Tiered Smart Beginnings Program	7
Social Cognitive Skills in African American Youth: Parental Cognitive Restructuring and Youth Support Seeking	6
Family alliance and infants’ vagal tone: The mediating role of infants’ reactions to unadjusted parental behaviors	6
Ingroup and outgroup preference and rejection among young children of different ethnic groups in the Netherlands	6
Earlier false belief understanding predicts later lie‐telling behavior in preschool children, but not vice versa	6
Parental Threat Perception and Hyper‐Parenting as Potential Risk Factors for Adolescents’ Test Anxiety	6
How being observed influences preschoolers’ emotions following (less) deserving help	5
“Like Two Musketeers”: Socialization beliefs about toddler's friendships among Dominican, Mexican, and African American mothers	5
How dislike and bullying co‐develop: A longitudinal study of negative relationships among children	5
Cultural variation in the early development of initiative in children's prosocial helping	5
Science resource inequalities viewed as less wrong when girls are disadvantaged	5
Preschoolers’ responses to prosocial opportunities during naturalistic interactions with peers: A cross‐cultural comparison	5
Longitudinal associations between coping and peer victimization: Moderation by gender and initial peer victimization	5
Social development quartet: Benefits of intergroup connections: Examining associations between peer networks and academic and socio‐emotional competencies of diverse youth	5
Adaptation and validation of the French version of empathy questionnaire in preschoolers	5
Age‐related differences in reasoning about the acceptability of eating animals	5
Empathy in preschool Portuguese children: Validation of the Empathy Questionnaire (EmQue)	5
Parental play supportiveness and kindergartners’ peer problems: Children's playfulness as a potential mediator	5
Academic development and disparities in linguistically diverse middle school classrooms: The role of social network equality and linguistic integration	5
Hostile Caregiving, ADHD Symptoms, and Child Behavior	5
Differential Susceptibility to Friendship Quality: The Role of Need for Approval	5
Measuring social and emotional functioning as a facet of positive youth development among children and adolescents in special education and mental health treatment	5
Rejection or Tolerance of Bullies: The Roles of Descriptive, Injunctive, and Popularity Norms	4
The effect of social inhibition on preschoolers' behavior problems: The moderating role of maternal parenting styles	4
Linguistic but not minimal group membership modulates spontaneous level‐2 perspective interference in 8‐year‐old children	4
Longitudinal associations between pet relationship quality and socio‐emotional functioning in early adolescence	4
Parental affective personality and children's self‐reported internalising and externalising behaviour	4
How Should We Treat Farmed Animals? Adolescents Are More Speciesist Than Adults	4
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	4
How children tell a (prosocial) lie from an (ironic) joke: The role of shared knowledge	4
Same gender typicality, risky technology use, and disordered eating among adolescents	4
Virtual reality training to improve socio‐emotional functioning in adolescents with developmental language disorders: A multiple baseline effectiveness study	4
Comparing methods of social preference assessment in childhood	4
Children's inductive inferences about individuals with gender category uncertainty	4

“Spilling the tea” on generation Z social media use and body image	4
The effect of different types of social norms on children's sharing behavior: The roles of parents, teachers, and peers	4
Early intergroup coalition: Toddlers attribute fair distributions to Black rather than White distributors	4