Child Development

Published on behalf of the Society for Research in Child Development

Edited by:
Jeffrey J. Lockman

ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2008: 6/55 Psychology, Developmental; 1/42 Psychology, Educational
Impact Factor: 3.821

As the flagship journal of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), Child Development has published articles, essays, reviews, and tutorials on various topics in the field of child development since 1930. Spanning many disciplines, the journal provides the latest research, not only for researchers and theoreticians, but also for child psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, psychiatric social workers, specialists in early childhood education, educational psychologists, special education teachers, and other researchers. In addition to six issues per year of Child Development, subscribers to the journal also receive a full subscription to Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development.

TopNews and Announcements

New Changes from Child Development
In 2009, Child Development welcomes new editor-in-chief, Jeffrey J. Lockman, and a new, redesigned cover. Along with these changes, every issue now features a section titled "In This Issue" section and allows authors to include full-color images in print copies of the journal.

Child Development ranked #1 in Educational Psychology!
We are proud to announce that according to 2008 ISI rankings, Child Development increased impact factor to 3.821 and remains the most cited journal with the highest impact factor in the Educational Psychology category. It also ranks 6/55 in Developmental Psychology.

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TopHighlights

• Developmental Social Cognitive Neuroscience: Insights From Deafness
  David Corina, Jenny Singleton
• Looking at Eye Gaze Processing and Its Neural Correlates in Infancy - Implications for Social Development and Autism Spectrum Disorder
  Stefanie Hoehl, Vincent M. Reid, Eugenio Parise, Andrea Handl, Letizia Palumbo, Tricia Striano
• Social Perception in Infancy: A Near Infrared Spectroscopy Study
  Sarah Lloyd-Fox, Anna Blasi, Agnes Volein, Nick Everdell, Claire E. Elwell, Mark H. Johnson
• Probing the Neural Correlates of Anticipated Peer Evaluation in Adolescence
  Amanda E. Guyer, Erin B. McClure-Tone, Nina D. Shiffrin, Daniel S. Pine, Eric E. Nelson
• Neural Correlates of Direct and Reflected Self-Appraisals in Adolescents and Adults: When Social Perspective-Taking Informs Self-Perception
  Jennifer H. Pfeifer, Carrie L. Masten, Larissa A. Borofsky, Mirella Dapretto, Andrew J. Fuligni, Matthew D. Lieberman
• The Effects of Early Experience on Face Recognition: An Event-Related Potential Study of Institutionalized Children in Romania
  Margaret C. Moulson, Alissa Westerlund, Nathan A. Fox, Charles H. Zeanah, Charles A. Nelson
• Interindividual Differences in Neonatal Imitation and the Development of Action Chains in Rhesus Macaques
  Pier Francesco Ferrari, Annika Paukner, Angela Ruggiero, Lisa Darcey, Sarah Unbehagen, Stephen J. Suomi
• Biological Motion Displays Elicit Social Behavior in 12-Month-Olds
  Jennifer M. D. Yoon, Susan C. Johnson
• Neural Correlates of Decision Making on a Gambling Task
  Stephanie M. Carlson, Vivian Zayas, Amy Guthormsen
• Revisiting the Strange Stories: Revealing Mentalizing Impairments in Autism
  Sarah White, Elisabeth Hill, Francesca Happé, Uta Frith
• Electroencephalogram and Heart Rate Regulation to Familiar and Unfamiliar People in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders
  Amy Vaughan Van Hecke, Jocelyn Lebow, Elgiz Bal, Damon Lamb, Emily Harden, Alexis Kramer, John Denver, Olga Bazhenova, Stephen W. Porges
• Does Gaze Direction Modulate Facial Expression Processing in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder?
  Hironori Akechi, Atsushi Senju, Yukiko Kikuchi, Yoshikuni Tojo, Hiroo Osanai, Toshikazu Hasegawa
• Neurodevelopmental Correlates of Theory of Mind in Preschool Children
  Mark A. Sabbagh, Lindsay C. Bowman, Lyndsay E. Evraire, Jennie M. B. Ito
• Neural Correlates of Belief- and Desire-Reasoning
  David Liu, Andrew N. Meltzoff, Henry M. Wellman
• Which Penguin Is This? Attributing False Beliefs About Object Identity at 18 Months
  Rose M. Scott, Renée Baillargeon
• Brain Regions for Perceiving and Reasoning About Other People in School-Aged Children
  Rebecca R. Saxe, Susan Whitfield-Gabrieli, Jonathan Scholz, Kevin A. Pelphrey
• Empathy Is Associated With Dynamic Change in Prefrontal Brain Electrical Activity During Positive Emotion in Children
• Sharee N. Light, James A. Coan, Carolyn Zahn-Waxler, Corrina Frye, H. Hill Goldsmith, Richard J. Davidson
• Cognitive and Neural Development of Individuated Self-Representation in Children
  Rebecca D. Ray, Amy L. Shelton, Nick Garber Hollon, Bethany D. Michel, Carl B. Frankel, James J. Gross, John D. E. Gabrieli
• Causal Supports for Early Word Learning
  Amy E. Booth
• Aspects of Fetal Learning and Memory
  Chantal E. H. Dirix, Jan G. Nijhuis, Henk W. Jongsma, Gerard Hornstra
• Recognition of Moving and Static Faces by Young Infants
  Yumiko Otsuka, Yukuo Konishi, So Kanazawa, Masami K. Yamaguchi, Hervé Abdi, Alice J. O'Toole
• The Motivational Landscape of Early Adolescence in the United States and China: A Longitudinal Investigation
  Qian Wang, Eva M. Pomerantz
• Early Attachment Organization Moderates the Parent-Child Mutually Coercive Pathway to Children's Antisocial Conduct
  Grazyna Kochanska, Robin A. Barry, Sarah A. Stellern, Jessica J. O'Bleness
• A Good Story: Children With Imaginary Companions Create Richer Narratives
  Gabriel Trionfi, Elaine Reese