| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Person-Centered and Variable-Centered Approaches to Longitudinal Data | Merrill-Palmer Quarterly | 2006 | 571 |
| 2 | Prosocial and Coercive Configurations of Resource Control in Early Adolescence: A Case for the Well-Adapted Machiavellian | Merrill-Palmer Quarterly | 2003 | 457 |
| 3 | Forms and Functions of Adolescent Peer Aggression Associated With High Levels of Peer Status | Merrill-Palmer Quarterly | 2003 | 425 |
| 4 | Long-term Effects of Parents' Education on Children's Educational and Occupational Success: Mediation by Family Interactions, Child Aggression, and Teenage Aspirations | Merrill-Palmer Quarterly | 2009 | 349 |
| 5 | The Person-Oriented Versus the Variable-Oriented Approach: Are They Complementary, Opposites, or Exploring Different Worlds? | Merrill-Palmer Quarterly | 2006 | 347 |
| 6 | Theory-of-Mind Development: Retrospect and Prospect | Merrill-Palmer Quarterly | 2004 | 257 |
| 7 | Early Learning and School Readiness: Can Early Intervention Make a Difference? | Merrill-Palmer Quarterly | 2004 | 253 |
| 8 | Elementary School Children with Behavior Problems: Teacher-Child Relations and Self-Perception. A Prospective Study | Merrill-Palmer Quarterly | 2004 | 226 |
| 9 | The Predictive Value of IQ | Merrill-Palmer Quarterly | 2001 | 218 |
| 10 | Person-Oriented and Variable-Oriented Research: Concepts, Results, and Development | Merrill-Palmer Quarterly | 2006 | 213 |
| 11 | What Does It Take to Stand Up for the Victim of Bullying?: The Interplay Between Personal and Social Factors | Merrill-Palmer Quarterly | 2010 | 207 |
| 12 | Dominance in Early Adolescent Boys: Affiliative and Aggressive Dimensions and Possible Functions | Merrill-Palmer Quarterly | 2001 | 206 |
| 13 | Paying Attention to and Not Neglecting Social Withdrawal and Social Isolation | Merrill-Palmer Quarterly | 2004 | 186 |
| 14 | Infant and Early Childhood Exposure to Adult-Directed and Child-Directed Television Programming: Relations with Cognitive Skills at Age Four | Merrill-Palmer Quarterly | 2010 | 184 |
| 15 | Vulnerable Children in Varying Classroom Contexts: Bystanders' Behaviors Moderate the Effects of Risk Factors on Victimization | Merrill-Palmer Quarterly | 2010 | 175 |
| 16 | Peer Acceptance and Friendship as Predictors of Early Adolescents' Adjustment Across the Middle School Transition | Merrill-Palmer Quarterly | 2011 | 173 |
| 17 | Early Child Care: The Known and the Unknown | Merrill-Palmer Quarterly | 2004 | 167 |
| 18 | Aggressive Victims, Passive Victims, and Bullies: Developmental Continuity or Developmental Change? | Merrill-Palmer Quarterly | 2004 | 156 |
| 19 | Children's Friendships: Shifts Over a Half-Century in Perspectives on Their Development and Their Effects | Merrill-Palmer Quarterly | 2004 | 153 |
| 20 | The Relationship of Young Children's Motor Skills to Later School Achievement | Merrill-Palmer Quarterly | 2006 | 147 |
| 21 | Moral Cognition: Explaining the Gender Difference in Antisocial Behavior | Merrill-Palmer Quarterly | 2001 | 145 |
| 22 | Physical and Psychological Aggression in At-Risk Young Couples: Stability and Change in Young Adulthood | Merrill-Palmer Quarterly | 2003 | 139 |
| 23 | Aggressors, Victims, and Defenders in Preschool: Peer, Self-, and Teacher Reports | Merrill-Palmer Quarterly | 2003 | 138 |
| 24 | Increases in Maternal Education and Young Children's Language Skills | Merrill-Palmer Quarterly | 2009 | 135 |
| 25 | Emergence of White-Lie Telling in Children Between 3 and 7 Years of Age | Merrill-Palmer Quarterly | 2002 | 133 |
| 26 | Parents' Reactions to Elementary School Children's Negative Emotions: Relations to Social and Emotional Functioning at School | Merrill-Palmer Quarterly | 2002 | 129 |
| 27 | Children's Effortful Control and Academic Competence: Mediation through School Liking | Merrill-Palmer Quarterly | 2007 | 125 |
| 28 | Peer Group Influence and Selection in Adolescents' School Burnout: A Longitudinal Study | Merrill-Palmer Quarterly | 2008 | 125 |
| 29 | Mother and Caregiver Sensitivity Over Time: Predicting Language and Academic Outcomes With Variable- and Person-Centered Approaches | Merrill-Palmer Quarterly | 2006 | 124 |
| 30 | Adolescent Substance Use With Friends: Moderating and Mediating Effects of Parental Monitoring and Peer Activity Contexts | Merrill-Palmer Quarterly | 2010 | 123 |
| 31 | Coping, Attachment, and Mother-Child Narratives of Stressful Events | Merrill-Palmer Quarterly | 2006 | 118 |
| 32 | Attachment Security and Child's Empathy: The Mediating Role of Emotion Regulation | Merrill-Palmer Quarterly | 2012 | 115 |
| 33 | Trajectories of Reading Development: A Follow-up From Birth to School Age of Children With and Without Risk for Dyslexia | Merrill-Palmer Quarterly | 2006 | 114 |
| 34 | The Protective Role of Friendships in Overtly and Relationally Victimized Boys and Girls | Merrill-Palmer Quarterly | 2007 | 111 |
| 35 | IQ of Children Growing Up in Children's Homes: A Meta-Analysis on IQ Delays in Orphanages | Merrill-Palmer Quarterly | 2008 | 110 |
| 36 | Order in the House! Associations among Household Chaos, the Home Literacy Environment, Maternal Reading Ability, and Children’s Early Reading | Merrill-Palmer Quarterly | 2008 | 109 |
| 37 | Mother-Child Joint Writing and Storybook Reading: Relations With Literacy Among Low SES Kindergartners | Merrill-Palmer Quarterly | 2002 | 108 |
| 38 | Rethinking Aggression: A Typological Examination of the Functions of Aggression | Merrill-Palmer Quarterly | 2003 | 108 |
| 39 | Constructing Emotional and Relational Understanding: The Role of Affect and Mother-Child Discourse | Merrill-Palmer Quarterly | 2006 | 107 |
| 40 | Adolescent Peer Victimization, Peer Status, Suicidal Ideation, and Nonsuicidal Self-Injury: Examining Concurrent and Longitudinal Associations | Merrill-Palmer Quarterly | 2010 | 105 |
| 41 | Behavioral Characteristics Associated with Stable and Fluid Best Friendship Patterns in Middle Childhood | Merrill-Palmer Quarterly | 2006 | 102 |
| 42 | Sociometric Status and Children's Peer Experiences: Use of the Daily Diary Method | Merrill-Palmer Quarterly | 2003 | 100 |
| 43 | Ethnic Heterogeneity of Social Networks and Cross-Ethnic Friendships of Elementary School Boys and Girls | Merrill-Palmer Quarterly | 2007 | 100 |
| 44 | Clarifying the Link between Parental Psychological Control and Adolescents’ Depressive Symptoms: Reciprocal versus Unidirectional Models | Merrill-Palmer Quarterly | 2008 | 98 |
| 45 | Mother-Child Discourse Surrounding a Child's Past Behavior at 30 Months: Links to Emotional Understanding and Early Conscience Development at 36 Months | Merrill-Palmer Quarterly | 2004 | 97 |
| 46 | Beyond Hurt Feelings: Investigating Why Some Victims of Bullying Are at Greater Risk for Suicidal Ideation | Merrill-Palmer Quarterly | 2010 | 95 |
| 47 | Gender Stereotypes about Mathematics and Science and Self-Perceptions of Ability in Late Childhood and Early Adolescence | Merrill-Palmer Quarterly | 2008 | 92 |
| 48 | Does Parental Mood or Efficacy Mediate the Influence of Environmental Chaos Upon Parenting Behavior? | Merrill-Palmer Quarterly | 2002 | 91 |
| 49 | Emotion-Related Regulation: An Emerging Construct | Merrill-Palmer Quarterly | 2004 | 91 |
| 50 | The Developmental Trajectories of Peer Victimization in Middle to Late Childhood and the Changing Nature of Their Behavioral Correlates | Merrill-Palmer Quarterly | 2010 | 90 |
