Developmental ReviewPub Date : 2025-12-01Epub Date: 2025-11-21DOI: 10.1016/j.dr.2025.101233
Hongjian Cao , Nancy Eisenberg , Nan Zhou , Shaofan Wang , Jinhui Qiao
{"title":"Parental responses to children’s positive emotions: An integrative, heuristic framework and literature review","authors":"Hongjian Cao , Nancy Eisenberg , Nan Zhou , Shaofan Wang , Jinhui Qiao","doi":"10.1016/j.dr.2025.101233","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.dr.2025.101233","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The field of parental emotion socialization has long been dominated by studies on parental responses to children’s negative emotions rather than parental responses to children’s positive emotions (PRCPE). Further, findings on PRCPE are scattered across studies, hindering scientific progress. In this article, we (a) provide a broader developmental and theoretical grounding for existing and future research on PRCPE; (b) summarize the current measurement of PRCPE to inform future operationalization; (c) outline an integrative, heuristic framework on the antecedents, consequences, and implicated mechanisms for PRCPE; (d) review available findings relevant to the outlined framework; and (e) propose a research agenda. PRCPE probably are guided by parents’ socialization values/goals, affected by parents’ “database” (e.g., attachment) and psychopathology, as well as shaped by child characteristics (e.g., temperament). Researchers have used diverse methods to assess a variety of PRCPE, including affirming responses that validate and enhance children’s experience and expression of positive emotions and suppressive responses that discourage and dampen children’s experience and expression of positive emotions. Parental affirming responses generally predict children’s experience and appropriate regulation of positive emotions, as well as their psychological well-being, whereas parental suppressive responses tend to be negatively related to the same child outcomes. Research is scarce on the relations of PRCPE to children’s externalizing problems and social competence, as well as mediators/moderators implicated in the relations of PRCPE to developmental outcomes. By providing a common ground for comparing/interpreting results and detecting gaps/directions for future research, we hope to fuel scientific advances in this nascent area of inquiry.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48214,"journal":{"name":"Developmental Review","volume":"78 ","pages":"Article 101233"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145568719","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Developmental ReviewPub Date : 2025-12-01Epub Date: 2025-11-09DOI: 10.1016/j.dr.2025.101229
Yiyi Deng , Ye Zhang , Jiatian Zhang , Silin Huang
{"title":"The efficacy of mindful movement for improving cognitive functioning among children and adolescents: a systematic review and meta-analysis","authors":"Yiyi Deng , Ye Zhang , Jiatian Zhang , Silin Huang","doi":"10.1016/j.dr.2025.101229","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.dr.2025.101229","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Mindful movement is considered a potentially effective approach for enhancing cognitive functioning among children and adolescents. However, the beneficial effects of mindful movement interventions on cognitive functioning have yet to be fully elucidated. In particular, no previous <em>meta</em>-analyses have comprehensively examined the effectiveness of different types of mindful movements on various cognitive domains or the potential factors that may promote or inhibit the impact of mindful movement interventions. Therefore, the current <em>meta</em>-analysis aimed to investigate the impact of mindful movement on specific cognitive functions, as well as to examine whether the timing of intervention (i.e., ages), participants’ cognitive status and cultural background may influence its effectiveness. A total of 84 empirical studies involving 11,015 children and adolescents were included. The results indicated that mindful movement had significant effects on attention (<em>g</em> = 0.62), processing speed (<em>g</em> = 1.22), working memory (<em>g</em> = 0.28) and executive functioning (<em>g</em> = 0.57), with small to large effect sizes. Furthermore, age significantly and cultural background marginally moderated the effects of mindful movement on executive functioning, with greater benefits observed among older participants or among those from Eastern cultures. Duration of the intervention was a key facilitator of cognitive improvements. This study highlighted the efficacy of mindful movement interventions for enhancing cognitive functioning among children and adolescents, and the results provide important guidance for theoretical development and clinical practice.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48214,"journal":{"name":"Developmental Review","volume":"78 ","pages":"Article 101229"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145519865","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Developmental ReviewPub Date : 2025-12-01Epub Date: 2025-11-10DOI: 10.1016/j.dr.2025.101230
Valérie Camos , Nicolas Chevalier
{"title":"Conceptualising the links between working memory, executive function, and attention across the lifespan","authors":"Valérie Camos , Nicolas Chevalier","doi":"10.1016/j.dr.2025.101230","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.dr.2025.101230","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48214,"journal":{"name":"Developmental Review","volume":"78 ","pages":"Article 101230"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145683616","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Developmental ReviewPub Date : 2025-12-01Epub Date: 2025-11-21DOI: 10.1016/j.dr.2025.101234
Stefanie Hoehl , Anna Bánki , Alicja Brzozowska , Alessandro Carollo , Kathrin Kostorz , Trinh Nguyen , Carolina Pletti , Susanne Reisner , Verena T. Schäfer , Christina Schaetz , Markus R. Tünte
{"title":"A developmental framework of interpersonal neural synchrony","authors":"Stefanie Hoehl , Anna Bánki , Alicja Brzozowska , Alessandro Carollo , Kathrin Kostorz , Trinh Nguyen , Carolina Pletti , Susanne Reisner , Verena T. Schäfer , Christina Schaetz , Markus R. Tünte","doi":"10.1016/j.dr.2025.101234","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.dr.2025.101234","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Interpersonal neural synchrony (INS), the temporal alignment of brain activities between individuals, has been proposed as a biomarker for successful communication and smooth social interaction. Surging empirical evidence shows that INS emerges spontaneously between infants, children, and their caregivers from early on in development. Yet, little is known about the developmental preconditions and functions of INS in childhood. This paper presents a developmental framework for understanding INS, integrating insights from structural and functional brain maturation, as well as behavioral, social, and cognitive development. We discuss how early caregiver-infant interactions, characterized by shared perceptual rhythms, facilitate the emergence of INS. Given initial limitations in temporal precision of neural processing, early INS is likely constrained to low-frequency brain rhythms and evolves alongside the maturation of neural networks and socio-cognitive abilities. We outline how INS may support critical developmental processes, including social learning, language acquisition, and attachment formation, through enabling mutual prediction and co-regulation between caregivers and children. Furthermore, we hypothesize that tasks requiring higher-order mutual understanding are linked to qualitative changes in INS patterns over time. This framework highlights the potential of INS as both a marker and a driver of developmental change, offering new avenues for research and intervention. Longitudinal studies and rhythm-based interventions could deepen our understanding of how INS supports development, with implications for enhancing social learning and attachment in populations at risk for developmental challenges. This work underscores the importance of adopting a developmental perspective in INS research.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48214,"journal":{"name":"Developmental Review","volume":"78 ","pages":"Article 101234"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145568718","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Developmental ReviewPub Date : 2025-12-01Epub Date: 2025-11-05DOI: 10.1016/j.dr.2025.101231
Qiyu Huang , Xiuli Liu
{"title":"The instability of sensitivity to false beliefs: How and why","authors":"Qiyu Huang , Xiuli Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.dr.2025.101231","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.dr.2025.101231","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Sensitivity to false beliefs is an early-developing ability to spontaneously exhibit adaptive responses towards others who hold false beliefs, thereby serving as an important indicator of social nature. Current research on sensitivity to false beliefs typically operates under the assumption that stability and existence are mutually inferable, positing that if sensitivity to false beliefs exists, it should be expressed stably across individuals and situations. However, this perspective overlooks the potential instability inherent in sensitivity to false beliefs. We argue that stability is not a necessary condition for the existence of sensitivity to false beliefs. Instead, sensitivity to false beliefs is inherently unstable, as evidenced by individual and situational differences in its manifestation. To account for this instability, we propose a Three-Stage Processing Model of sensitivity to false beliefs. According to this model, the complete manifestation of sensitivity to false beliefs is better conceptualized as a dynamic <em>process</em>, which sequentially includes processing stages of motivation arousal, knowledge access, and response formation. The core reason for the instability of sensitivity to false beliefs lies in the susceptibility of these three processing stages to individual and situational factors. Shifting the research focus to the dynamic process of sensitivity to false beliefs has the potential to break through the bottleneck of interpreting mixed findings in the field and to broaden research avenues for uncovering the patterns governing the variations of sensitivity to false beliefs.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48214,"journal":{"name":"Developmental Review","volume":"78 ","pages":"Article 101231"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145466646","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Developmental ReviewPub Date : 2025-12-01Epub Date: 2025-09-27DOI: 10.1016/j.dr.2025.101227
Viviane Valdes
{"title":"Rethinking adversity and psychopathology as multidimensional constructs: identifying shared patterns of brain dysconnectivity","authors":"Viviane Valdes","doi":"10.1016/j.dr.2025.101227","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.dr.2025.101227","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Accumulating evidence suggests that experiences of adversity interact with genetic vulnerability to shape brain development in ways that increase risk for psychopathology. However, the complexity of these interactions—and the multidimensional nature of both adversity and psychopathology symptom presentations—has made it challenging to identify consistent mechanistic pathways or patterns. This review uses conceptual framework that integrates pleiotropic genetic risk, epigenetic modifications, and neurobiological signaling pathways to provide an overview for how adversity may shape neurodevelopmental processes and alter large-scale brain network connectivity. Drawing on the triple network model and existing empirical work, the review synthesizes how specific features of adversity may map onto patterns of dysconnectivity in the salience network (SN), default mode network (DMN), and frontoparietal network (FPN). These network-level changes appear to align with transdiagnostic symptom dimensions: for instance, hypoconnectivity patterns are more commonly associated with neglect dimensions and “negative” symptoms (e.g., anhedonia, cognitive impairments), while hyperconnectivity patterns are linked to trauma dimensions and “positive” symptoms (e.g., hypervigilance, intrusive thoughts). The review concludes by highlighting the value of a multidimensional frameworks of both adversity and psychopathology to guide future research on mechanistic and transdiagnostic pathways from adversity to psychopathology, particularly work on neural networks.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48214,"journal":{"name":"Developmental Review","volume":"78 ","pages":"Article 101227"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145159639","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Developmental ReviewPub Date : 2025-12-01Epub Date: 2025-10-08DOI: 10.1016/j.dr.2025.101228
Nicolas Murgueitio , Cathi B. Propper , Margaret A. Sheridan
{"title":"Social circuits under developmental threat: Bridging rodent and human neuroscience","authors":"Nicolas Murgueitio , Cathi B. Propper , Margaret A. Sheridan","doi":"10.1016/j.dr.2025.101228","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.dr.2025.101228","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Over the past decade, research has increasingly focused on the neurodevelopmental pathways through which specific dimensions of childhood adversity, such as threat (i.e., interpersonal violence), contribute to psychopathology risk in children and adolescents. Rodent models of rough maternal care have provided novel insights, suggesting that threat disrupts the neural circuitry underlying fear learning and emotional reactivity. While some of these findings have been translated, neurodevelopmental mechanisms identified in rodent research remain unexplored in the human neuroscience literature. In this review, we draw on the rodent literature to propose novel mechanisms through which childhood threat shapes brain development and influence long-term risk for psychopathology.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48214,"journal":{"name":"Developmental Review","volume":"78 ","pages":"Article 101228"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145268314","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Developmental ReviewPub Date : 2025-09-01Epub Date: 2025-07-22DOI: 10.1016/j.dr.2025.101217
Ran Wei , Paul L. Harris , Catherine E. Snow , Meredith L. Rowe
{"title":"From the “Here and Now” to the “There and Then”: How parent–child decontextualized conversations support early development","authors":"Ran Wei , Paul L. Harris , Catherine E. Snow , Meredith L. Rowe","doi":"10.1016/j.dr.2025.101217","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.dr.2025.101217","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Decontextualized language (DL), language referring to concepts and events that are abstract or spatially, temporally, or personally displaced from the immediate context, has been shown to bolster children’s language, cognitive, and socioemotional development. Because research on parent–child DL spans multiple disciplinary, theoretical, and methodological traditions, a comprehensive framework defining DL and examining the mechanistic pathways linking DL’s unique attributes to early development remains absent. This review proposes a framework that delineates DL along three interrelated yet distinct dimensions: its function, relation to the perceptual context, and linguistic form. It also analyzes how cultural, social, personal, and contextual factors contribute to individual differences in parents’ DL input, emphasizing social and cultural factors. Additionally, this review elucidates the demonstrated links between parent–child decontextualized conversation and children’s language, cognitive, and socioemotional skills, along with the underlying mechanisms. We argue that a three-dimensional, gradient-based view of DL can enable a more refined and systematic exploration of developmental shifts and individual variation in DL. This approach also promises to enhance our understanding of its developmental implications and underlying mechanisms. In the concluding remarks, we provide practical recommendations on using this framework to inform coding and analytical choices and discuss areas we deem as priorities in DL research.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48214,"journal":{"name":"Developmental Review","volume":"77 ","pages":"Article 101217"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144687150","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Developmental ReviewPub Date : 2025-09-01Epub Date: 2025-07-26DOI: 10.1016/j.dr.2025.101218
Katrina R. Abela , Randi E. McCabe , Teresa Bennett , Nicholas Bock , Andrea Gonzalez
{"title":"Evaluating parent-mediated interventions to support child emotion regulation: a review of preventative approaches across childhood","authors":"Katrina R. Abela , Randi E. McCabe , Teresa Bennett , Nicholas Bock , Andrea Gonzalez","doi":"10.1016/j.dr.2025.101218","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.dr.2025.101218","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Parenting plays an important role in children’s emotion regulation (ER) development. Parent-mediated interventions, preventative approaches that equip caregivers with skills to enhance their children’s emotional, behavioural, or developmental outcomes, have emerged as a promising strategy to address difficulties in child ER, particularly during the early to middle childhood years (<span><span>Morawska et al., 2019</span></span>). This narrative review synthesized studies evaluating the effectiveness of parent-mediated preventative interventions aimed at enhancing ER in children aged 0–12 years. A search across three databases yielded 3189 articles, with 24 studies retained after applying inclusion criteria. Key interventions included Tuning in to Kids, Incredible Years, Parent-Child Interaction Therapy, Family Check-Up, and Triple P – Positive Parenting Program. While the interventions varied in design, all included a parental and child ER element (albeit using varied terminology to describe it), providing caregivers with skills to regulate their emotions, engage in effective parenting practices, and model healthy ER behaviours. Despite these promising outcomes, significant methodological limitations, such as inconsistent and imprecise measurement of ER and limited research on middle childhood, restricted a comprehensive understanding of the impact of these interventions. Future research should incorporate rigorous and comprehensive ER assessments and expand the focus of inquiry to include children in middle childhood to addressing the identified gaps in current literature and further promote adaptive ER development in children.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48214,"journal":{"name":"Developmental Review","volume":"77 ","pages":"Article 101218"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144711731","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Developmental ReviewPub Date : 2025-06-01Epub Date: 2025-04-06DOI: 10.1016/j.dr.2025.101200
Franklin Moreno , Paul Boxer
{"title":"Advancing a transnational ecological systems framework for research on exposure to violence","authors":"Franklin Moreno , Paul Boxer","doi":"10.1016/j.dr.2025.101200","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.dr.2025.101200","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Scholars have underscored the need to integrate research from more diverse contexts and local realities across national borders to inform global perspectives on developmental science. As multination developmental studies have increased, one area requiring further attention is the ways in which countries that wield greater power influence the local realities of youth in other countries. The domain of public safety, insecurity, and violence for youth evinces important issues related to local conditions shaped by foreign government policy interventions. In this paper we draw from multinational studies, research on exposure to community violence, Bronfenbrenner’s ecological model of human development, and policy between the United States and Central America. Utilizing Central America as a case study, our analysis examines how transnational governmental policies of the US are distal processes that have real-life impacts on youth’s proximal experiences with violence and safety in Honduras. We propose a <em>transnational ecological systems framework</em> for advancing developmental theory and research on violence to expand from a <em>within</em> country application of ecological systems to a <em>between</em> country model to account for these transnational, distal processes. We conclude with theoretical and research implications and applications with the aim of advancing a more comprehensive and accurate understanding of context-specific and general developmental processes and outcomes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48214,"journal":{"name":"Developmental Review","volume":"76 ","pages":"Article 101200"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143785966","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}