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Suicidality in men following relationship breakdown: A systematic review and meta-analysis of global data. Psychological Bulletin (IF 19.8) Pub Date : 2025-07-17 Michael J Wilson,Amelia J Scott,Vita Pilkington,Jacqui A Macdonald,Simon M Rice,John L Oliffe,Zac E Seidler
Factors underlying the association between intimate relationship breakdown and men's suicidality are poorly understood. This systematic review and meta-analysis examined which men are most vulnerable and the factors underpinning men's suicidal ideation, suicide attempt, and death by suicide following relationship breakdown. We reviewed 75 studies across 30 countries (N ≥ 100 million men). Of these
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Crossmodal semantics in memory: Scoping review and meta-analyses of multisensory effects in short-term and episodic memory systems. Psychological Bulletin (IF 19.8) Pub Date : 2025-07-10 Salvador Soto-Faraco, Charles Spence
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Mapping domains of life success: Insights from meta-analytic criterion profile analysis. Psychological Bulletin (IF 19.8) Pub Date : 2025-07-03 Michael P. Wilmot, Brenton M. Wiernik, Deniz S. Ones
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Trust and subjective well-being across the lifespan: A multilevel meta-analysis of cross-sectional and longitudinal associations. Psychological Bulletin (IF 19.8) Pub Date : 2025-06-12 Shanshan Bi, Marlies Maes, Gonneke W. J. M. Stevens, Coriena de Heer, Jian-Bin Li, Yue Sun, Catrin Finkenauer
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AI aversion or appreciation? A capability–personalization framework and a meta-analytic review. Psychological Bulletin (IF 19.8) Pub Date : 2025-06-09 Xin Qin, Xiang Zhou, Chen Chen, Dongyuan Wu, Hansen Zhou, Xiaowei Dong, Limei Cao, Jackson G. Lu
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How physical activity context relates to cognition across the lifespan: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Psychological Bulletin (IF 19.8) Pub Date : 2025-06-09 Myrto F. Mavilidi, Spyridoula Vazou, David R. Lubans, Katie Robinson, Andrew J. Woods, Valentin Benzing, Sofia Anzeneder, Katherine B. Owen, Celia Álvarez-Bueno, Levi Wade, Jade Burley, George Thomas, Anthony D. Okely, Caterina Pesce
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Effectiveness of psychotherapy: Synthesis of a “meta-analytic research domain” across world regions and 12 mental health problems. Psychological Bulletin (IF 19.8) Pub Date : 2025-06-09 Mathias Harrer, Clara Miguel, Wouter van Ballegooijen, Marketa Ciharova, Constantin Yves Plessen, Paula Kuper, Antonia A. Sprenger, Claudia Buntrock, Davide Papola, Ioana A. Cristea, Nino de Ponti, Đorđe Bašić, Darin Pauley, Ellen Driessen, Soledad Quero, Jorge Grimaldos, Sara Fernández Buendía, Cristina Botella, Jessica L. Hamblen, Paula P. Schnurr, Sadie E. Larsen, Rory A. Pfund, Emma Motrico, Irene
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Electronic screen use and children’s socioemotional problems: A systematic review and meta-analysis of longitudinal studies. Psychological Bulletin (IF 19.8) Pub Date : 2025-06-09 Roberta Pires Vasconcellos, Taren Sanders, Chris Lonsdale, Philip Parker, James Conigrave, Samantha Tang, Borja del Pozo Cruz, Stuart J. H. Biddle, Rachael Taylor, Christine Innes-Hughes, Katariina Salmela-Aro, Diego Vasconcellos, Katrina Wilhite, Ella Tremaine, Bridget Booker, Michael Noetel
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Acoustic exaggeration of vowels in infant-directed speech: A multimethod meta-analytic review. Psychological Bulletin (IF 19.8) Pub Date : 2025-06-02 Irena Lovčević, Titia Benders, Sho Tsuji, Riccardo Fusaroli
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Procedural skill retention and decay: A meta-analytic review. Psychological Bulletin (IF 19.8) Pub Date : 2025-06-02 Corey E. Tatel, Phillip L. Ackerman
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Supplemental Material for Procedural Skill Retention and Decay: A Meta-Analytic Review Psychological Bulletin (IF 19.8) Pub Date : 2025-05-27
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Handedness in mental and neurodevelopmental disorders: A systematic review and second-order meta-analysis. Psychological Bulletin (IF 19.8) Pub Date : 2025-05-01 Julian Packheiser, Jette Borawski, Gesa Berretz, Sarah Alina Merklein, Marietta Papadatou-Pastou, Sebastian Ocklenburg
Several meta-analyses on hand preference in mental and neurodevelopmental disorders have been published in the last decade. Some disorders, like schizophrenia, have been associated with increased rates of atypical hand preference (i.e., non-right-, left-, or mixed-hand preference)-but others, like depression, have not. To identify overarching patterns between hand preference and psychopathology and
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Intuitive deontology? A systematic review and multivariate, multilevel meta-analysis of experimental studies on the psychological drivers of moral judgments. Psychological Bulletin (IF 19.8) Pub Date : 2025-05-01 Alina Fahrenwaldt, Jerome Olsen, Rima-Maria Rahal, Susann Fiedler
Humans often face moral dilemmas posing a conflict between two motives: deontology (rule-following, e.g., "thou shalt not kill") and utilitarianism (greater-good-maximization, e.g., sacrificing one for many). A long-standing debate concerns the influence of cognitive processing on moral judgments in such dilemmas. One popular dual process account suggests that intuition favors "deontological" judgments
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Ignored, dismissed, and minimized: Understanding the harmful consequences of invalidation in health care—A systematic meta-synthesis of qualitative research. Psychological Bulletin (IF 19.8) Pub Date : 2025-05-01 Allyson C. Bontempo, John M. Bontempo, Paul R. Duberstein
The upsurge in the prevalence of contested, ambiguous, and difficult-to-diagnose illnesses presents challenges for clinicians who too often respond by invalidating patients' symptoms. Although numerous qualitative studies have reported the effects of invalidation on patients' psychological and behavioral outcomes, this body of research has not been systematically reviewed. Informed by Linehan's (1993)
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The predictive power of autobiographical memory in shaping the mental health of young people: An individual participant data meta-analysis. Psychological Bulletin (IF 19.8) Pub Date : 2025-05-01 Uyen Doan, Dou Hong, Leo Mares, Molly Butler, Adrian Dahl Askelund, Charlotte Gutenbrunner, Rachel Hiller, Reginald D. V. Nixon, Vanessa Puetz, Paul E. Jose, Allison Metts, Lauren B. Alloy, Brandon E. Gibb, Alison E. Hipwell, Karen Salmon, Victoria Powell, Naomi Warne, Frances Rice, Caitlin Hitchcock
Reduced autobiographical memory (AM) specificity, characterized by difficulty recalling specific past events, is a feature of multiple psychiatric disorders. While meta-analyses indicate that reduced AM specificity can predict future symptom severity, its role as a premorbid risk factor for mental illness onset in young people remains unclear. Our preregistered individual participant data meta-analysis
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Structuring hierarchy concepts: Evaluating measures of power, status, dominance, and prestige on the basis of an integrative model and systematic literature review. Psychological Bulletin (IF 19.8) Pub Date : 2025-04-01 Robert Körner, Jennifer R. Overbeck, Astrid Schütz
Research on social hierarchy is flourishing. Often, researchers employ self- or peer-report measures to assess variables such as power or dominance. One drawback of studies in this line of research is that researchers use different scales to measure the same constructs and different researchers use the same scale but aim to measure different constructs. Moreover, hierarchy concepts have been used interchangeably
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Social class and prosociality: A meta-analytic review. Psychological Bulletin (IF 19.8) Pub Date : 2025-04-01 Junhui Wu, Daniel Balliet, Mingliang Yuan, Wenqi Li, Yanyan Chen, Shuxian Jin, Shenghua Luan, Paul A. M. Van Lange
Two theoretical perspectives (i.e., the risk management perspective and the resource perspective) offer competing predictions that higher class individuals-relative to lower class individuals-tend to be less versus more prosocial, respectively. Different predictions can also be drawn from each perspective about how the class-prosociality association varies across sociocultural contexts. To date, each
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Supplemental Material for Social Class and Prosociality: A Meta-Analytic Review Psychological Bulletin (IF 19.8) Pub Date : 2025-03-27
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Supplemental Material for Does Confronting Prejudice Reduce Intergroup Bias? A Meta-Analytic Review Psychological Bulletin (IF 19.8) Pub Date : 2025-02-27
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Getting comfortable with physical discomfort: A scoping review of interoceptive exposure in physical and mental health conditions. Psychological Bulletin (IF 19.8) Pub Date : 2025-02-27 Samantha G. Farris, Lilly Derby, Mindy M. Kibbey
Interoceptive exposure (IE) involves the use of exercises, activities, or tasks to intentionally induce (or exacerbate) physical symptoms in the body, to challenge misconceptions about the harmful nature of the physical symptoms that maintain fear and problematic avoidance. IE was originally developed for the cognitive behavioral treatment and prevention of panic disorder. Bodily sensations and concern
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Does confronting prejudice reduce intergroup bias? A meta-analytic review. Psychological Bulletin (IF 19.8) Pub Date : 2025-02-27 Chantelle Wood, Sofia Persson, Lilith Roberts, Oliver Allchin, Melanie Simmonds-Buckley
Confronting prejudice is a promising strategy for reducing intergroup bias. The current meta-analysis estimated the effects of confronting prejudice on intergroup bias in the confronted person and examined the impact of potential moderators. Eligible studies measured intergroup bias in participants confronted versus not confronted for intergroup bias. A three-level mixed-effects analysis on 91 effect
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The gender convergence effect in older age: A meta-analytic review comparing modern attitudes toward younger, middle-aged, and older women and men. Psychological Bulletin (IF 19.8) Pub Date : 2025-02-18 Angela Shakeri, Michael S. North
As older women drive aging population trends, it is crucial to understand how target age and gender jointly influence perceiver attitudes. Although the prevailing "double jeopardy" perspective portrays older women as the most derogated age-gender group due to facing both age and sex bias, some evidence suggests gender attitudes converge with target age (i.e., a "convergence" perspective). Investigating
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Teacher–student relationships and student outcomes: A systematic second-order meta-analytic review. Psychological Bulletin (IF 19.8) Pub Date : 2025-02-10 Valentin Emslander, Doris Holzberger, Sverre Berg Ofstad, Antoine Fischbach, Ronny Scherer
Teacher-student relationships (TSRs) play a vital role in establishing a positive classroom climate and promoting positive student outcomes. Several meta-analyses have suggested significant correlations between positive TSRs and, for example, academic achievement, motivation, executive functions, and well-being, as well as between negative TSRs that result in behavior problems or bullying. These meta-analyses
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Reasons to believe: A systematic review and meta-analytic synthesis of the motives associated with conspiracy beliefs. Psychological Bulletin (IF 19.8) Pub Date : 2025-02-06 Mikey Biddlestone, Ricky Green, Karen M. Douglas, Flávio Azevedo, Robbie M. Sutton, Aleksandra Cichocka
Belief in conspiracy theories has been linked to harmful consequences for individuals and societies. In an effort to understand and mitigate these effects, researchers have sought to explain the psychological appeal of conspiracy theories. This article presents a wide-ranging systematic review and meta-analysis of the literature on conspiracy beliefs. We analyzed 971 effect sizes from 279 independent
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Secondary benefits of family member participation in treatments for childhood disorders: A multilevel meta-analytic review. Psychological Bulletin (IF 19.8) Pub Date : 2025-02-06 Benjamin D. Johnides, Charles M. Borduin, Kaitlin M. Sheerin, Sofie Kuppens
Family-based treatments provided around the world for children with mental health, physical health, and developmental disorders often convey secondary mental health benefits to caregivers and siblings who participate in those treatments. Yet, there are no systematic evaluations of these secondary benefits, suggesting that current estimates of the effectiveness of family treatments do not accurately
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Effects of acute exercise on cognitive function: A meta-review of 30 systematic reviews with meta-analyses. Psychological Bulletin (IF 19.8) Pub Date : 2025-01-30 Yu-Kai Chang, Fei-Fei Ren, Ruei-Hong Li, Jing-Yi Ai, Shih-Chun Kao, Jennifer L. Etnier
This meta-review provides the first meta-analytic evidence from published meta-analyses examining the effectiveness of acute exercise interventions on cognitive function. A multilevel meta-analysis with a random-effects model and tests of moderators were performed in R. Thirty systematic reviews with meta-analyses (383 unique studies with 18,347 participants) were identified. Acute exercise significantly
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Parents favor daughters: A meta-analysis of gender and other predictors of parental differential treatment. Psychological Bulletin (IF 19.8) Pub Date : 2025-01-16 Alexander C. Jensen, McKell A. Jorgensen-Wells
Decades of research highlight that differential treatment can have negative developmental consequences, particularly for less favored siblings. Despite this robust body of research, less is known about which children in the family tend to be favored or less favored by parents. The present study examined favored treatment as predicted by birth order, gender, temperament, and personality. We also examined
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Cognitive factors underlying mathematical skills: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Psychological Bulletin (IF 19.8) Pub Date : 2024-12-19 Tonje Amland,Germán Grande,Ronny Scherer,Arne Lervåg,Monica Melby-Lervåg
In understanding the nature of mathematical skills, the most influential theories suggest that mathematical cognition draws on different systems: numerical, linguistic, spatial, and general cognitive skills. Studies show that skills in these areas are highly predictive of outcomes in mathematics. Nonetheless, the strength of these relations with mathematical achievement varies, and little is known
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The development of children's gender stereotypes about STEM and verbal abilities: A preregistered meta-analytic review of 98 studies. Psychological Bulletin (IF 19.8) Pub Date : 2024-12-01 David I Miller,Jillian E Lauer,Courtney Tanenbaum,Lauren Burr
This meta-analysis studied the development of ability stereotypes that could limit girls' and women's participation in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields, as well as contribute to boys' underachievement in reading and writing. We integrated findings from 98 studies measuring children's gender stereotypes about STEM and verbal abilities. The data comprised 145,204 children
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Cultural diversity climate in school: A meta-analytic review of its relationships with intergroup, academic, and socioemotional outcomes. Psychological Bulletin (IF 19.8) Pub Date : 2024-12-01 Lisa Bardach,Sebastian Röhl,Sophie Oczlon,Aki Schumacher,Marko Lüftenegger,Rosa Lavelle-Hill,Miriam Schwarzenthal,Steffen Zitzmann
This first-of-its-kind meta-analysis (N = 79 studies; 56,552 students; k = 640 effects) provides a comprehensive assessment of five cultural diversity climate approaches that capture different ways of addressing cultural diversity in K-12 schools. We examined how intergroup contact theory's optimal contact conditions, multiculturalism climate, colorblind climate, critical consciousness climate, and
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Supporting the status quo is weakly associated with subjective well-being: A comparison of the palliative function of ideology across social status groups using a meta-analytic approach. Psychological Bulletin (IF 19.8) Pub Date : 2024-11-01 Salvador Vargas Salfate,Julia Spielmann,D A Briley
Research has suggested that the endorsement of ideologies supporting the status quo leads to higher subjective psychological well-being-an idea labeled as the palliative function of ideology within system justification theory. Furthermore, this approach has suggested that this association should be moderated by social status. Specifically, the association between the endorsement of ideologies supporting
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Who am I? A second-order meta-analytic review of correlates of the self in childhood and adolescence. Psychological Bulletin (IF 19.8) Pub Date : 2024-11-01 Thorben Jansen,Jennifer Meyer,John Hattie,Jens Möller
People's subjective beliefs about themselves affect what people think and, consequently, what they do. Positive self-beliefs are important for many life outcomes, from academic success to well-being, especially during K-12 education as a crucial developmental period. Many empirical studies and meta-analyses have examined correlates of self-beliefs. The present second-order meta-analytic review integrates
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Reporting bias, not external focus: A robust Bayesian meta-analysis and systematic review of the external focus of attention literature. Psychological Bulletin (IF 19.8) Pub Date : 2024-11-01 Brad McKay,Abbey E Corson,Jeswende Seedu,Celeste S De Faveri,Hibaa Hasan,Kristen Arnold,Faith C Adams,Michael J Carter
Evidence has ostensibly been accumulating over the past 2 decades suggesting that an external focus on the intended movement effect (e.g., on the golf club during a swing) is superior to an internal focus on body movements (e.g., on your arms during a swing) for skill acquisition. Seven previous meta-studies have all reported evidence of external focus superiority. The most comprehensive of these concluded
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When connecting with LGBTQ+ communities helps and why it does: A meta-analysis of the relationship between connectedness and health-related outcomes. Psychological Bulletin (IF 19.8) Pub Date : 2024-11-01 G Tyler Lefevor,Sydney A Sorrell,Samuel J Skidmore,Kiet D Huynh,Rachel M Golightly,Eleanor Standifird,Kyrstin Searle,Madelyn Call
We conducted a multilevel meta-analysis of 390 effect sizes from 167 studies with 157,923 participants examining the relationship between connectedness with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer/questioning (LGBTQ+) communities and health-related outcomes, following Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines. We conducted our initial search in January 2023
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Defining social reward: A systematic review of human and animal studies. Psychological Bulletin (IF 19.8) Pub Date : 2024-10-21 Ana Stijovic,Magdalena Siegel,Asena U Kocan,Isidora Bojkovska,Sebastian Korb,Giorgia Silani
Social rewards are strong drivers of behavior and fundamental to well-being, yet there is a lack of consensus regarding what actually defines a reward as "social." Because a systematic overview of existing social reward operationalizations is currently absent, a review of the literature seems necessary to advance toward a unified framework and to better guide research and theory. To bridge this gap
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Associations between cognitive appraisals and emotions: A meta-analytic review. Psychological Bulletin (IF 19.8) Pub Date : 2024-10-14 Gerard C Yeo,Desmond C Ong
The core premise of cognitive appraisal theories of emotion is that emotions are produced from our interpretation of what we experience. Compared to other major theoretical frameworks in emotion, the appraisal perspective emphasizes the centrality of these cognitive interpretations in giving rise to emotions. Decades of research have yielded numerous studies that broadly agree on the centrality of
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Fadeout and persistence of intervention impacts on social-emotional and cognitive skills in children and adolescents: A meta-analytic review of randomized controlled trials. Psychological Bulletin (IF 19.8) Pub Date : 2024-10-01 Emma R Hart,Drew H Bailey,Sha Luo,Pritha Sengupta,Tyler W Watts
Researchers and policymakers aspire for educational interventions to change children's long-run developmental trajectories. However, intervention impacts on cognitive and achievement measures commonly fade over time. Less is known, although much is theorized, about social-emotional skill persistence. The current meta-analysis investigated whether intervention impacts on social-emotional skills demonstrated
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Categories of training to improve empathy: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Psychological Bulletin (IF 19.8) Pub Date : 2024-10-01 Xiao Wu,Su-Chen Yao,Xue-Jing Lu,Yu-Qing Zhou,Ya-Zhuo Kong,Li Hu
Due to the vital role of empathy in promoting prosocial behaviors and nurturing social bonds, there is a growing interest in cultivating empathy. Yet, the effectiveness of existing training methods on empathy, especially on different dimensions of empathy (i.e., affective, cognitive, motivational, and behavioral empathy), varies tremendously, and the underlying causes for this heterogeneity remain
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Does the apple fall far from the tree? A meta-analysis linking parental factors to children's intrinsic and extrinsic goals. Psychological Bulletin (IF 19.8) Pub Date : 2024-10-01 Kelly A Ferber,Emma L Bradshaw,Michael Noetel,Tsz Ying Wong,Jiseul S Ahn,Philip D Parker,Richard M Ryan
Self-determination theory (Ryan & Deci, 2017) has highlighted the differential roles that intrinsic life goals (for personal growth, close relationships, community connections, and physical health) and extrinsic life goals (i.e., for wealth, image, and status) play in supporting well-being. Less is known about how orientations toward these two types of aspirations develop. It is likely that early environmental
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Early childhood executive function predicts concurrent and later social and behavioral outcomes: A review and meta-analysis. Psychological Bulletin (IF 19.8) Pub Date : 2024-10-01 Nicole J Stucke,Sabine Doebel
Executive function (EF), the set of mental processes and skills involved in goal-oriented planning, organizing, and controlling behavior, is believed to support child development across many domains of life. However, although ample evidence suggests a relation between childhood EF and academic skills, it is less clear what its role is in domains beyond academics. We report a meta-analysis of relations
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Age-related changes in emotion recognition across childhood: A meta-analytic review. Psychological Bulletin (IF 19.8) Pub Date : 2024-09-01 Christopher Riddell,Milica Nikolić,Elise Dusseldorp,Mariska E Kret
Children's ability to accurately recognize the external emotional signals produced by those around them represents a milestone in their socioemotional development and is associated with a number of important psychosocial outcomes. A plethora of individual studies have examined when, and in which order, children acquire emotion knowledge over the course of their development. Yet, very few attempts have