Merrill-Palmer Quarterly

Journal presenting original experimental, theoretical, and review papers on issues of human development.

School engagement and language achievement: a longitudinal study of ge...
October 01, 2009

Aggressive and prosocial behaviors within early adolescent friendship ...
October 01, 2009

Understanding adolescent delinquency: the role of older siblings' deli...
October 01, 2009

Coping with achievement-related failure: an examination of conversatio...
October 01, 2009

Narrative interaction in family dinnertime conversations.(Report)
October 01, 2009

Erratum.(Correction notice)
July 01, 2009

A developmental process analysis of cross-generational continuity in e...
July 01, 2009

Race differences in parental influences on child achievement: multiple...
July 01, 2009

Increases in maternal education and young children's language skills.(...
July 01, 2009

Education from one generation to the next: mechanisms of mediation.(Re...
July 01, 2009

Parenting and academic development.
July 01, 2009

Educational attainment in developmental perspective: longitudinal anal...
July 01, 2009

Long-term effects of parents' education on children's educational and ...
July 01, 2009

Predicting young children's externalizing problems: interactions among...
April 01, 2009

Young children's self-concepts: associations with child temperament, m...
April 01, 2009

Gender similarities and differences in preadolescent peer groups: grou...
April 01, 2009

Children's and adults' evaluation of their own inductive inferences, d...
April 01, 2009

Clarifying the link between parental psychological control and adolesc...
October 01, 2008

Order in the house! Associations among household chaos, the home liter...
October 01, 2008

Homesickness at summer camp: associations with the mother-child relati...
October 01, 2008

Early competitive game playing in same- and mixed-gender peer groups.(...
October 01, 2008

Chinese children's conceptions of shyness: a prototype approach.(Repor...
October 01, 2008

Mother-child dyadic synchrony in European American and African America...
July 01, 2008

The relation between childhood aggression and depressive symptoms: the...
July 01, 2008

IQ of children growing up in children's homes a meta-analysis on IQ de...
July 01, 2008

Relations between mother-child talk and 3- to 5-year-old children's un...
July 01, 2008

Gender stereotypes about mathematics and science and self-perceptions ...
July 01, 2008

Children's peer relations and their psychological adjustment: differen...
April 01, 2008

Predicting youth out-of-school time participation: multiple risks and ...
April 01, 2008

Peer contextual influences on the growth of authority-acceptance probl...
April 01, 2008

Gender and mother-child interactions during mathematics homework: the ...
April 01, 2008

Migrating from Mexico and sharing pretend with peers in the United Sta...
April 01, 2008

Relations of perceived maternal parenting style, practices, and learni...
January 01, 2008

Peer group influence and selection in adolescents' school burnout: a l...
January 01, 2008

Portraits of early moral sensibility in two children's everyday conver...
January 01, 2008

Different fear-regulation behaviors in toddlerhood: relations to prece...
January 01, 2008

Emotion and cognition processes in preschool children.(Report)
January 01, 2008

Individual differences in preschoolers' self-regulation and theory of ...
January 01, 2008

Moving away or fitting in? Understanding shyness in Chinese children.(...
October 01, 2007

Peer relations at school entry: sex differences in the outcomes of fos...
October 01, 2007

Monthly changes in the composition of friendship networks in early ado...
October 01, 2007

The mediating and moderating effects of teacher preference on the rela...
October 01, 2007

Impression formation and modifiability: testing a theoretical model.(R...
October 01, 2007

Girl talk: gossip, friendship, and sociometric status.(Report)
July 01, 2007

Same-gender versus cross-gender friendship conceptions: similar or dif...
July 01, 2007

Ethnic heterogeneity of social networks and cross-ethnic friendships o...
July 01, 2007

Introduction to the special issue gender and children's friendships: d...
July 01, 2007

Girlfriends and boyfriends diverging in middle childhood and coming to...
July 01, 2007

The study of sex, gender, and relationships with peers: a full or empt...
July 01, 2007

Structure, content, and socioemotional correlates of girls' and boys' ...
July 01, 2007

Gender differences in the interpersonal consequences of early-onset de...
July 01, 2007

The protective role of friendships in overtly and relationally victimi...
July 01, 2007

Friendship features and social exclusion: an observational study exami...
July 01, 2007

Adaptive emotion regulation among low-income African American children...
April 01, 2007

Ethnic identity, acculturation, parenting beliefs, and adolescent adju...
April 01, 2007

Assessment of adolescents' preference- and reputation-based peer statu...
April 01, 2007

Clique membership and social adjustment in children's same-gender cliq...
April 01, 2007

The role of reciprocity in romantic relationships in middle childhood ...
April 01, 2007

Kindergarten teachers' beliefs and responses to hypothetical prosocial...
April 01, 2007

The role of context in risk for pediatric injury: influences from the ...
January 01, 2007

Temperamental and joint attentional predictors of language development...
January 01, 2007

Gender differences in moral motivation.
January 01, 2007

Perspectives on the ethics of sociometric research with children: how ...
January 01, 2007

Explaining friendship formation and friendship stability: the role of ...
January 01, 2007

Children's effortful control and academic competence: mediation throug...
January 01, 2007

Maternal emotional expressiveness and attachment security: links to re...
October 01, 2006

Behavioral characteristics associated with stable and fluid best frien...
October 01, 2006

Perceptions of friendship quality and observed behaviors with friends:...
October 01, 2006

How children's justifications of the "best thing to do" in peer confli...
October 01, 2006

The relationship of young children's motor skills to later reading and...
October 01, 2006

Predicting preschool cognitive development from infant temperament, ma...
October 01, 2006

Variable--and person-centered approaches to the analysis of early adol...
July 01, 2006

Mother and caregiver sensitivity over time: predicting language and ac...
July 01, 2006

Trajectories of reading development: a follow-up from birth to school ...
July 01, 2006

Emotional availability in mother-child dyads: short-term stability and...
July 01, 2006

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