Infant and Child Development

Papers
(The median citation count of Infant and Child 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
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The characteristics of Chinese anxiously withdrawn children's friendships: Quantity, quality, and protecting against loneliness78
The relationship between oral language and storytelling prosody in preschool children63
Alternative perspectives: Relations between belief reasoning and ambiguous figure perception in bilingual children63
Learning in Dos Idiomas: The Impact of Codeswitching on Children's Noun and Verb Learning55
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An evaluation of the psychometric properties of the strengths and difficulties scale in Turkey: Implications for other non‐WEIRD countries43
Does surgency moderate the relationship between parenting and children's aggression in middle childhood?39
Goldilocks and the home mathematics environment: Parents' rate activities ‘too easy,’ ‘just right,’ or ‘too hard’ across early development36
We need to talk about validity – A commentary on “Six solutions for more reliable infant research” from the viewpoint of an early executive functions researcher30
Longitudinal associations between attachment representations coded in the adult attachment interview in late adolescence and perceptions of romantic relationship adjustment in adulthood29
Adolescent loneliness, stress and depressive symptoms during the COVID‐19 pandemic: The protective role of friends27
Caregiver Beliefs About Childhood Development and Schooling Outcomes: A Qualitative Study in Mahikeng, South Africa25
Black‐Asian solidarity through collective racial socialization18
Reliability and replicability in infant research: A commentary on Byers‐Heinlein et al. (2021)18
The dynamic functions of social cues during children's word learning15
Additive and synergistic relations of early mother–child and caregiver–child interactions and socioeconomic outcomes in adulthood15
Fulfilling the promise of applied developmental science: Is it time to reconsider our approach?15
U.S. and Chinese preschoolers' compliance and regulatory behaviours in two challenging contexts13
The health costs associated with “looking forward to success”: Educational expectations and children's health13
Perspectives on the impact of generative AI on early‐childhood development and education13
Pre‐K attendance and social development: The moderating role of kindergarten classroom experiences12
Examining the indirect role of perceived normativeness in the association between collectivistic values and psychological control of Turkish mothers10
Infant‐directed communication in Tanna, Vanuatu and Vancouver, Canada10
Identifying developmental adaptations to early‐life stress10
Gender attitudes and gender discrimination among ethnically and geographically diverse young children10
Temperament and behaviour problems in children: A multilevel analysis of cross‐cultural differences10
Preschool children's high‐frequency heart rate variability during low and high emotional challenge in relation to their self‐regulation10
Mediators of the relation of family income with adolescent behaviour problems and cognitive achievement: Material hardship, parent distress, and parent support10
It matters how you start: Early numeracy mastery predicts high school math course‐taking and college attendance9
Will power serve for oneself or others? An exploratory study toward 6‐ to 9‐year‐old Chinese children9
Impact of decision‐making autonomy and social distance on young Chinese children's sharing behaviour9
The Indonesian version of Ages and Stages Questionnaire III accuracy compared to Bayley Scales of Infant Development III9
Open and reproducible practices in developmental psychology research: The workflow of the WomCogDev lab as an example9
“I definitely feel like a scientist”: Exploring science identity trajectories among Latinx students in a critical race theory‐informed undergraduate research experience9
Preschool language exposure and use: A comparison study of dual‐language learners and English monolingual children8
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Child refugee's social skills and resilience: Moderating effects of time in refugee camp, parental education, and preschool attendance8
Dyslexia is not a gift, but it is not that simple8
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Do mother's socialization goals in early childhood predict children's later self?7
Do preschoolers always trust the majority? The influence of familiarity and expertise of a dissenter in a Chinese sample7
Life satisfaction trajectories among junior high school students in China: The role of parent–child communication7
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Understanding the relation between socioeconomic status and elementary science achievement: A quantile regression approach7
Toddler teachers' responses to tantrums and relations to successful resolutions7
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The role of the natural history museum in promoting word learning for young children6
The Marshmallow Test as a Screening Instrument: Sensitivity and Specificity of a Delay of Gratification Task for Later ADHD and Conduct Problems6
Variability in parenting behaviours during play and during mealtimes with toddlers6
Don't look any further: How a model's linguistic group membership limits exploration and discovery in preschool children6
Anxiety, Depression, and Behavioural Problems Among US Children and Adolescents, 2016–20226
Longitudinal associations between metaphor understanding and peer relationships in middle childhood6
Defining Parent Responsiveness: A Systematic Review‐Based Theoretical Model6
Effect of HEG biofeedback on selected cognitive functions—Randomized study in children with ADHD and neurotypical children6
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The other side of false belief: Constructing the objectivity of reality5
I copy you as I believe you know about our culture: Combining imitation and selective trust literatures5
Latent profiles of infant negative affect and respiratory sinus arrhythmia during the still‐face paradigm: The role of maternal sensitivity5
‘When my mummy and daddy aren't looking at me when I do my maths she helps me’; Children can be taught to create imaginary companions: An exploratory study5
Trauma is not the whole story: Trajectories of responses to childhood disasters intertwining with Life following the Indian Ocean tsunami5
Associations among family socioeconomic status, parenting and sustained attention for socioeconomically disadvantaged children at age 5 years5
The role of fathers in children's emotion regulation development: A systematic review5
‘The system is unfair’: Uncontrollable attributions for inequality predict more equitable giving in adolescents5
Optimal input for language development: Tailor nurture to nature4
Infancy researchers need to change the way they develop their measures: A comment on Byers‐Heinlein et al. (2021)4
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Prevalence, risk and protective factors of substance use amongst adolescents living in peri‐urban communities in Abuja, Nigeria4
Analysing infant data at the group‐ or individual‐level: The impact of measurement error on sophisticated analyses4
Infant placement and language exposure in daily life4
Bayesian sample size planning for developmental studies4
Testing prosodic development with the Headturn Preference Procedure: A test‐retest reliability study4
The developing of executive function skills through culturally organized autonomy and helping4
Examining the female‐talker default in experimental language acquisition research4
Genetic syndromes, neuroconstuctivism and replicable research; challenges and future directions4
Towards a Haudenosaunee developmental science: Perspectives from the Two Row Wampum4
Open science and metascience in developmental psychology: Introduction to the special issue4
Differences in how mothers and fathers support children playfulness4
Performance during object retrieval tasks in young children with and without Down syndrome: A pilot study4
Spanking and parental verbal aggression during early childhood: Association with later academic achievement and the mediating role of executive function4
Can we predict non‐response in developmental tasks? Assessing the longitudinal relation between toddlers' non‐response and early academic skills4
Fine motor abilities and parental input of spatial features predict object word comprehension of Turkish‐learning children4
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Children's preferences of the colour composition of art paintings4
Beliefs, practices and support needs of preschool teachers toward shy‐withdrawn behaviours4
The cost–benefit trade‐off in young children's overimitation behaviour4
Temperament ratings by parents and teachers as predictors of non‐verbal ability in Argentinean preschoolers3
Inhibitory control and problem solving in early childhood: Exploring the burdens and benefits of high self‐control3
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Utilising Non‐Nutritive Sucking in Developmental Language Research: Past, Current and Future3
Some considerations for social cognition assessment in children3
Father–newborn vocal interaction: A contribution to the theory of innate intersubjectivity3
Predicting child problem behaviour at school age: The role of maternal sensitivity, child temperament and theory of mind3
Excluded Now What? Families' Perceptions of Subsequent Care Arrangements Following Preschool Expulsion3
Toddlers' emotion vocalizations during peer conflicts and contingent teacher interventions in early care and education settings3
Black American adolescent's efficacy in the face of discrimination3
Childhood fantasy play relates to adult socio‐emotional competence3
Toward inclusive and identity safe learning for supporting racialized student achievement3
The seventh solution: A commentary on Byers‐Heinlein, Bergmann, and Savalei (2022)3
Broadening perspectives: The case for ecologically valid infant research3
Changing the conversation: A culturally responsive perspective on executive functions, minoritized children and their families3
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Use them or lose them: Are manipulatives needed to assess numeracy and geometry performance in preschool?3
Maternal distress and body mass index in preschoolers living in families experiencing low‐income3
Longitudinal assessment of social cognition in infants born preterm using eye‐tracking and parent–child play3
The relation between social acceptance and school well‐being in early childhood3
Great expectations: The construct validity of the violation‐of‐expectation method for studying infant cognition3
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A Script and Tutorial for Using Rev AI's Automatic Speech Transcription3
When to use a cookie, and when to use a ruler: A response to Byers‐Heinlein, Bergmann and Savelei's “six solutions for more reliable infant research”3
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Are we all on the same page? Subfield differences in open science practices in psychology2
An investigation of children's empathic dispositions and behaviours across seven countries2
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A three‐wave study on the development of prosocial behaviours across toddlerhood: The role of socialization2
The First Year: Profiling the Home Environment of Infants From Low‐Income Homes2
Keeping track of language: Can monolingual and bilingual infants associate a speaker with the language they speak?2
A nuanced look into youth journeys of gender transition and detransition2
Measuring morality in infancy: A scoping methodological review2
Behavioural Interventions for Problematic Infant Sleeping and Cry/Fuss Behaviour: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analyses2
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Phonological–semantic flexibility and its role in reading for Chinese kindergarten children2
Six solutions for more reliable infant research2
Is sleep longitudinally related to children's achievement, executive function and classroom behaviour?2
Effects of maternal picture book knowledge on language development of 15‐month olds2
“Side by side”: Comparing how Israeli secular and religious mothers read a story about the Israeli‐Palestinian conflict to young children2
They are the best: The significance of others to emerging adults and well‐being2
Exploring Inter‐Brain Coherence Between Fathers and Infants During Maternal Storytelling: An fNIRS Hyperscanning Study2
Baseline and Rest: A Need for Conceptual Clarity When Measuring Parasympathetic Reactivity and Recovery2
Chinese child unsociability, maternal maladaptive parenting, and peer exclusion among preschoolers: A cross‐lagged model2
Proving and improving the reliability of infant research with neuroadaptive Bayesian optimization2
The feasibility of remote measurement of infant sleep and motor development2
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Piloting a battery to evaluate parasympathetic reactivity and externalizing behaviours during early childhood in autism spectrum disorder2
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Reliability and acceptability of web‐based administration of Spanish ages and stages questionnaires third edition®2
Exploring the cognitive development of children born to adolescent mothers in South Africa2
Having the talk when our little ones just learned to walk: Racial socialization with young children in contemporary times2
Why not both? Using multiple measures to improve reliability in infant studies2
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Three‐component mathematics for students2
Exploring profiles of hormone exposure: Associations with cognition in a population‐based cohort of early adolescents2
Maternal sensitivity as a predictor of change in respiratory sinus arrhythmia activity from infancy to toddlerhood2
Infants in Dutch daycare: Exploring fine‐grained dimensions of temperament2
Qualitative and quantitative measures of joint attention development in the first year of life: A scoping review2
Valid points and looks: Reliability and validity go hand‐in‐hand when improving infant methods1
Brain Morphometry of Toddlers With Language Delay: An Exploratory Study1
Infant's recognition of three‐dimensional form: Mirror image and structurally distinct objects1
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Improving data quality in online parenting research1
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Attention profiles following preterm birth: A review of methods and findings from infancy to adulthood1
Children presume confident informants will be accurate (until proven otherwise)1
Exploring opportunities for math learning within parent–infant interactions1
Coparenting conflict moderates the association between maternal prenatal depressive symptoms and infant regulatory capacity1
Associated biological and environmental factors of impaired executive function in preschool‐aged children: A population‐based study1
Factors influencing kindergarten Families' perceptions of home–school interactions1
Strengthening Developmental Science With Psychometric Evaluations: An Examination of the Spatial Arrangement Method as a Measure of Semantic Structure in Children1
Associations between risk factors, developmental outcomes, and executive function in neonatal intensive care unit graduates at 2 years: A retrospective study1
Socialisation of Emotion Regulation in Preschool Classrooms: How Do Peers Matter?1
Sharing is caring for developmental psychology1
Susceptibility to prosocial and antisocial influence in adolescence following mindfulness training1
Investigating the association between socioeconomic status and language skills in children with autism spectrum disorder or other developmental delays1
Individual differences in preschoolers' spatial thinking: Comprehension of dimensional adjectives and their relation to children's performance on non‐verbal spatial tasks1
Parental Math Beliefs and Home Math Experiences of Preschoolers in Chile: A Qualitative Study1
Biomarker adoption in developmental science: A data‐driven modelling of trends from 90 biomarkers across 20 years1
Maternal depressive symptoms and early childhood temperament before and during the COVID‐19 pandemic in the United Kingdom1
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The ‘scars’ left on children by exclusion, but re‐inclusion may ‘heal up’1
Applying Research Domain Criteria to the study of emotion dysregulation in infancy and early childhood1
Prescriptions from history: A case for replications that control for leading1
The role of effort type and intensity in children's decisions about effort‐based outcomes1
Mother–infant shared book reading in the first year of life1
Tests of bidirectional relations of TV exposure and effortful control as predictors of adjustment in early childhood in the context of family risk factors1
Into the unknown: Maternal responsiveness influences young children's support‐giving expectations of fathers but not unfamiliar others1
An open developmental science will be more rigorous, robust, and impactful1
Preterm‐born children's development: A bioecological perspective1
The impact of theory of mind and executive function on math and reading abilities: A longitudinal study1
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How do children answer questions from a physically present humanoid robot?1
Maternal substance use, unpredictability of sensory signals and child cognitive development: An exploratory study1
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Teachers matter in early childhood: The relation between teacher behaviours and executive function development in toddlerhood1
The myth of normative development1
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Security of attachment and trust beliefs in close others during middle childhood1
Pre‐K attendance and social development: The moderating role of kindergarten classroom experiences1
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The self‐concept questionnaire offers a multidimensional, developmentally sensitive measure of the capacity for self‐reflection in young children1
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Beyond bias to Western participants, authors, and editors in developmental science1
Investigating correlates of children's emotional well‐being: Parenting stress and child temperament1
Prosocial development throughout the toddlerhood: A person‐centred approach1
Exploratory study of best friendship dissolution characteristics and psychological difficulties during early adolescence1
COVID‐19 pandemic impacts on kindergarteners' mental health: A qualitative study of perspectives of U.S. mothers with low income1
Maternal depression and the timing of mother–child dialogue1
Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act, family care plans and infants with prenatal substance exposure: Theoretical framework and directions for future research1
Social competence with peers and theory of mind among Chinese preschool children1
In search of a measure to investigate mental performance among children: Development of the mental speed test1
Understanding the effects of rhythmic coordination on children's prosocial behaviours1
Implementation of a multiverse approach in developmental research: The longitudinal relation between self‐esteem and peer victimization1
Contributions of executive function to spatial thinking in young children1
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