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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Chinese Parents’ Understanding and Socialization of Gratitude	33
Children's Theory of Mind and Family Socioeconomic Status: What Can Different Approaches and Contexts Tell Us About the Same Construct?	27
Maternal caregiving, prosocial behavior, and self‐esteem in middle childhood	24
Predicting children's internalizing symptoms across development from early emotional reactivity	22
Trajectories of adolescents’ depressive symptoms surrounding the transition to vocational education	21
Social Development	20
“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	19
Children's Perspective on Parental Lying and Its Effect on Trust: Co‐Creation of an Instrument and Pilot Results	18
Adolescents’ moral reasoning when honesty and loyalty collide	18
Development and validation of the Dutch Social Attunement Questionnaire (SAQ)	14
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Trajectories of team and individual sports participation in childhood and links with internalizing problems	12
The role of between‐group competition in children's within‐group merit‐based resource allocation	11
The power of teacher‐toddler relationships and stability of care for language development	10
A comparison of models for inferring longitudinal reciprocal relationships between constructs: A case example with internalizing and externalizing problems	10
Gender essentialism predicts prejudice against gender nonconformity in two cultural contexts	10
Children's interpretations of parental responses to children's negative emotions in Chinese urban and rural communities	10
Social Development	10
Parental warmth and guilt induction: Associations with prosocial behaviors and the mediating role of values in Chinese adolescents	10
Imaginary athletes: Prevalence, forms, and developmental functions	10
Children's and adolescents’ evaluations of wealth‐related STEM inequality	10
Theory of mind, gender, gains in friendships versus peer acceptance and anxious solitude from middle childhood through early adolescence	10
Preschoolers' Gender Identification Rigidity Relates to Their Gender‐Typed Predictions for Others	9
Parenting, young children's behavioral self‐regulation and the quality of their peer relationships	9
When does ownership matter? Parents’ reasoning about children's conflicts over possessions	9

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

Comparing methods of social preference assessment in childhood