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๐Ÿ“ฃ๐Ÿ“ฃ A recent paper by Michelle A. Hurst et al. in JCD:

"Childrenโ€™s Interpretation of โ€œBeforeโ€ And โ€œAfterโ€ For Consecutive and Non-Consecutive Numbers and Events"

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

18.11.2025 20:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Cultural Constructions of Parentโ€“Child Spatial Interactions Cultural influences, such as a languageโ€™s reading direction and parentsโ€™ everyday interactions, can impact a childโ€™s asymmetric mapping of information to the left and right sides of space. To deter...

๐Ÿ“ฃ๐Ÿ“ฃ A recent paper by Abigail Wolff et al. in JCD:

"Cultural Constructions of Parentโ€“Child Spatial Interactions: Journal of Cognition and Development"

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

11.11.2025 19:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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05.11.2025 23:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Cats, Bats, and People: Cultivating Childrenโ€™s Understanding of Genes and Trait Inheritance In the United States, children typically learn about genetics during adolescence, despite early misconceptions about parental resemblance. This study explores whether U.S. 7- and 8-year-olds can co...

๐Ÿ“ฃ๐Ÿ“ฃ A recent paper by Lรฉa Tรขn Combette et al. in JCD:
"Cats, Bats, and People: Cultivating Childrenโ€™s Understanding of Genes and Trait Inheritance"
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

03.11.2025 13:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Higher Fearfulness in 4- to 6-Year-Old Children Related to Better Performance on an Emotional Than Neutral Stroop Task Executive function (EF) refers to processes involved in goal-directed behaviors. Good EF during early childhood is important for positive outcomes. However, little is known about how EF and tempera...

๐Ÿ“ฃ๐Ÿ“ฃ A recent paper by Aryn M. Vaughan & Sammy Perone in JCD:

"Higher Fearfulness in 4- to 6-Year-Old Children Related to Better Performance on an Emotional Than Neutral Stroop Task"

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

27.10.2025 11:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

A recent paper by Jessica A. Stern et al. in JCD:
"Environmental Moral Cognition in Children and Adults: Journal of Cognition and Development"

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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20.10.2025 16:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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A Training Targeting Caregiversโ€™ Responsiveness Promotes Index-Finger Pointing in 12-Month-Old Infants Index-finger pointing is a critical milestone for language development, thus requiring an account of its emergence. Empirical evidence indicates a correlation between caregiversโ€™ responsiveness and...

๐Ÿ“ฃ๐Ÿ“ฃ A recent paper by Katharina Kaletsch & Ulf Liszkowski:

A Training Targeting Caregiversโ€™ Responsiveness Promotes Index-Finger Pointing in 12-Month-Old Infants

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

13.10.2025 17:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Development and Differentiation of Executive Function Structure This study explores the development of executive function (EF), focusing on inhibition, working memory (WM), and cognitive flexibility. The sample consisted of 294 children recruited in Swiss publi...

๐Ÿ“ฃ๐Ÿ“ฃ A recent paper by Marc Yangรผez et al. in JCD:
"Development and Differentiation of Executive Function Structure"

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

30.09.2025 15:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Do Conversations and Mental States Independently Influence Theory of Mind Development in Primary School Children? A Training Study This study aimed to disentangle the impact of group conversations and mental state content on childrenโ€™s theory of mind (ToM) during middle childhood by independently manipulating these two factors...

๐Ÿ“ฃ๐Ÿ“ฃ Check out the paper by Serena Lecce et al. in JCD:

"Do Conversations and Mental States Independently Influence Theory of Mind Development in Primary School Children?"

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

24.09.2025 15:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Familiar Magic Helps Children See That Fantastical Events Can Happen in Stories Young children often show a reality bias when thinking about fictionโ€”they say that stories can include realistic events, while rejecting fantastical events. We sought to better understand this bias...

๐Ÿ“ฃ๐Ÿ“ฃ Check out a recent work by Emily E. Stonehouse et al. in JCD:

"Familiar Magic Helps Children See That Fantastical Events Can Happen in Stories"

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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15.09.2025 21:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Does Pretending Optimize Young Childrenโ€™s Future-Oriented Decision-Making? Preschoolers often make more optimal future-oriented decisions for another person than for themselves (i.e., other-over-self advantage). This advantage may reflect psychological distance from the s...

๐Ÿ“ฃ๐Ÿ“ฃA recent work by Sydney Rossiter et al. in JCD:

Does Pretending Optimize Young Childrenโ€™s Future-Oriented Decision-Making?

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

01.09.2025 16:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Planting the Seeds of Sustainability: The Promise of Dynamic Norms Climate change poses an increasingly dangerous threat to human life, necessitating widespread behavior change to mitigate its effects. Thus, targeting children, whose habits and norms are still for...

๐Ÿ“ฃ๐Ÿ“ฃ A recent paper by Lesenia R. Fish & Arber Tasimi at JCD:

Planting the Seeds of Sustainability: The Promise of Dynamic Norms

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

26.08.2025 16:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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How Language Influences Thought: The Case of Multiplying Fractions This study addresses the question of whether and how language influences mathematical cognition. Canadian students in Grades 4โ€“7 (N = 348) were asked fraction multiplication questions in one of the...

๐Ÿ“ฃ๐Ÿ“ฃ A recent paper by Hawes et al. at JCD:
How Language Influences Thought: The Case of Multiplying Fractions

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20.08.2025 19:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Enjoyment, Empathy, and Environmental Behavior: A Study of Young Childrenโ€™s Nature Connection in Iceland Nature connection (NC) in early childhood is increasingly recognized as a potential pathway to the development of lifelong environmental values and behaviors โ€“ a pathway that may hold growing relev...

๐Ÿ“ฃ๐Ÿ“ฃ A recent paper by Meghan C. Orman et al. in JCD:

Enjoyment, Empathy, and Environmental Behavior: A Study of Young Childrenโ€™s Nature Connection in Iceland

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

11.08.2025 20:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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More Than Words: Maternal Mental State Talk as a Form of Dynamic Scaffolding Supporting Theory of Mind This study longitudinally investigated the relation between maternal mental state (MS) language when narrating a familiar wordless storybook and preschoolersโ€™ theory of mind (ToM) abilities. Mother...

๐Ÿ“ฃ๐Ÿ“ฃ A recent paper by Hande Ilgaz et al. in JCD:

"More Than Words: Maternal Mental State Talk as a Form of Dynamic Scaffolding Supporting Theory of Mind"

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

31.07.2025 00:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

๐Ÿ“ฃ๐Ÿ“ฃ A recent article by Lizette Pizza & Roberto Posada in JCD:

How Human Exceptionalist Assumptions Impact Environmental Attitudes in Low Socioeconomic Urban Communities in Colombia

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22.07.2025 14:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

๐Ÿ“ฃ๐Ÿ“ฃ A recent article by Tal Waltzer et al.:
โ€œWhat is Climate Change and What Can I Do About It?โ€ A Survey and Educational Intervention with 10- to 13-Year-Olds

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

15.07.2025 15:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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โ€œHas the Climate Changed?โ€: How Education Shapes Beliefs in Emerging Scientific Phenomena Climate change poses global challenges to health and the economy, particularly affecting childrenโ€™s well-being in developing countries. Despite overwhelming scientific evidence for the reality and ...

๐Ÿ“ฃ๐Ÿ“ฃ Check out a recent article published in JCD by Shaocong Ma & Paul L. Harris โ€œHas the Climate Changed?โ€: How Education Shapes Beliefs in Emerging Scientific Phenomena

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

07.07.2025 18:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Object Functions and Words Reexamined: Toddlersโ€™ Recognition of Function Depends on Object Type The role of function in toddlersโ€™ object labeling has been debated for decades in developmental science. We aimed to clarify the relation between toddlersโ€™ understanding of functions and words usin...

๐Ÿ“ฃ๐Ÿ“ฃ A recent paper by Haley Weaver & Jenny Saffran:
Object Functions and Words Reexamined: Toddlersโ€™ Recognition of Function Depends on Object Type

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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30.06.2025 16:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Thatโ€™s not the One I Wanted: Feedback Improves 5-Year-oldsโ€™ Communicative Perspective-Taking Effective communication requires participants to recognize what knowledge is shared and what knowledge remains unique to each person. Although research has examined the developmental emergence of t...

๐Ÿ“ฃ๐Ÿ“ฃ In a recent paper in JCD, Narae Ju et al. found that feedback improves 5-year-oldsโ€™ communicative perspective-taking.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

25.06.2025 21:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Associations Between Young Childrenโ€™s Flexible Attention to Numerical and Spatial Magnitudes and Early Math Skills Attending to numerical and spatial magnitude information is important for many math skills (e.g. measurement, proportional reasoning). The flexible attention to magnitudes (FAM) account proposes th...

๐Ÿ“ฃ๐Ÿ“ฃ A recent paper by Mary C. Wagner et al. in JCD:

Associations Between Young Childrenโ€™s Flexible Attention to Numerical and Spatial Magnitudes and Early Math Skills

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

18.06.2025 19:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Does Focusing on the Unit of Change Help Children Learn Growing Pattern Skills? Children regularly encounter growing and decreasing patterns in songs, games, and daily routines. Over development, children learn to extend and abstract (i.e., recreate the pattern using different...

๐Ÿ“ฃ๐Ÿ“ฃ A recent paper by Nicholas A. Vest and colleagues:

Does Focusing on the Unit of Change Help Children Learn Growing Pattern Skills? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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12.06.2025 13:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Will it Sink or Float? No Gender Differences in Five- to Seven-Year-Old Childrenโ€™s Persistence on a Science Task Recent studies suggest that girls as young as 4 years of age in the US are affected by negative gender-science stereotypes and persist less than boys on science tasks. However to date, no studies h...

๐Ÿ“ฃ๐Ÿ“ฃ A recent paper by Nicole J. Stucke & Sabine Doebel in JCD:

Will it Sink or Float? No Gender Differences in Five- to Seven-Year-Old Childrenโ€™s Persistence on a Science Task

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

09.06.2025 16:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Longitudinal Mediated Relations Between Screen Time and School Adjustment Through Executive Function Difficulties As screen time (ST) constitutes an integral part of the daily lives of children today, parents, educators, and researchers have explored the associations of ST with childrenโ€™s cognitive, behavioral...

๐Ÿ“ฃ๐Ÿ“ฃ A recent paper in JCD:

"Longitudinal Mediated Relations Between Screen Time and School Adjustment Through Executive Function Difficulties" by Juyoung Kim & Monica Tsethlikai

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

26.05.2025 19:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Spatial Uncertainty and Information Processing Speed in Infants and Adults: Age Differences in Saccadic Reaction Time Sensitivity Speed of information processing (SIP) as determined by the response to spatial uncertainty is an important, perhaps limiting, factor for cognitive development. With adults, although their manual re...

๐Ÿ“ฃ๐Ÿ“ฃ A recent paper by Scott A. Adler & Thomas J. Baker in JCD:

Spatial Uncertainty and Information Processing Speed in Infants and Adults: Age Differences in Saccadic Reaction Time Sensitivity
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

20.05.2025 17:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Full-Term Children with Lower Vocabulary Scores Receive More Multimodal Math Input Than Preterm Children One of the earliest sources of mathematical input arises in dyadic parentโ€“child interactions. However, the emphasis has been on parental input only in speech and how input varies across different e...

๐Ÿ“ฃ๐Ÿ“ฃ A recent paper by Dilay Karadรถller, Ece Demir-Lira, & Tilbe Gรถksun:

Full-Term Children with Lower Vocabulary Scores Receive More Multimodal Math Input Than Preterm Children

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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13.05.2025 12:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Climate Change, Families, and Human Development: Review of the Evidence Climate change comprises acute shocks and protracted hazards that threaten societies, communities, and families worldwide. Still, little work has investigated the potential impacts of climate chang...

๐Ÿ“ฃ๐Ÿ“ฃ A recent paper by Jorge Cuartas et al. in JCD: "Climate Change, Families, and Human Development: Review of the Evidence"

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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07.05.2025 15:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Role of Dialect, Gender, and Race in Childrenโ€™s Friendship Choices: Evidence from Mexican Monolinguals and Mexican-American Bilinguals This work investigated whether Mexican-American bilingual children and Mexican monolingual children (ages 4โ€“6; N = 245) use Spanish varieties (Puerto Rican vs. Mexican) when making friendship judgm...

๐Ÿ“ฃ๐Ÿ“ฃ A recent paper by Maria M. Arredondo and colleagues in JCD:

The Role of Dialect, Gender, and Race in Childrenโ€™s Friendship Choices: Evidence from Mexican Monolinguals and Mexican-American Bilinguals

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

02.05.2025 20:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Bridging the Divide: Understanding Language Beliefs and Practices Among Caregivers in the Deep South to Inform Culturally Responsive Interventions The 30 million word gap refers to the disparity in early language exposure between low socioeconomic status (SES) children and their higher SES peers, a gap that is thought to negatively impact chi...

๐Ÿ“ฃ๐Ÿ“ฃ A recent paper in JCD on "Understanding Language Beliefs and Practices Among Caregivers in the Deep South to Inform Culturally Responsive Interventions" by Julie M. Schneider & Maria Maldonado

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

29.04.2025 12:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Future of Cognitive Development in Challenging Times Published in Journal of Cognition and Development (Ahead of Print, 2025)

๐Ÿ“ฃ๐Ÿ“ฃ Check out this commentary by Vikram Jaswal et al.:
"The Future of Cognitive Development in Challenging Times"

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25.04.2025 18:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

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