Symeonidou, M., Doherty, M. & Ross, J. (2025). Thinking about thinking: A longitudinal investigation of the developmental link between metacognition, self-control and theory of mind. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 249, 106103. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2024.106103
Ross, J., Hutchison, J., Cunningham, S. (2024). The self-memory system: Exploring bidirectional links between self and memory across early to late childhood. Child Development. http://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.14163
Rumble, H., Jindal-Snape, D. & Ross, J. (2024). The effects of visual art participation on the development of attachment and psychological wellbeing in infants and young children: a mixed methods systematic review of dyadic engagement in non-clinical settings. Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/aca0000642
Clarkson, T.R., Paff, H, Cunningham, S.J., Ross, J, Haslam, C, and Kritikos, A. (2024). Mine for life: Charting Ownership Effects in Memory from Adolescence to Old Age. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218241254119
Cunningham, S.J., McMillan, K., Gow, A, Ahmed, Z., Rhodes, S., Hutchison, J. & Ross, J. (2024). The Self Referent Effect in Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. British Journal of Developmental Psychology. http://doi.org/10.1111/bjdp.12489
Mentzou, A. & Ross, J. (2024). The Emergence of Self-Awareness: Insights from Robotics. Human Development. https://doi.org/10.1159/000538027
Rumble, H., Jindal-Snape, D. & Ross, J. (2024). Visual art participation and young children’s social wellbeing: a scoping review. Education 3-13. https://doi.org/10.1080/03004279.2024.2304790
Chambers, J., Munro, R., Ross, J. & Wimmer, M. (2023). Vernacular cinema, self-concept and the perceptual–conceptual shift: exploring conversations between film education and developmental psychology. Film Education Journal. https://doi.org/10.14324/FEJ.06.2.02
Goncharova, Y. & Ross, J. (2023). The Self-Concept Questionnaire offers reliable multidimensional measurement of the development of self-awareness. Infant and Child Development. https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.2459
Armstrong, V.G. & Ross, J. (2023). Actually, today was a good day, so today we’re doing all right: Parental perspectives on a dyadic group art therapy intervention for parent and infant wellbeing and attachments. The Arts in Psychotherapy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aip.2023.102057
Armstrong, V.G. & Ross, J. (2023). A controlled trial and close observation of parent-infant art therapy groups as an intervention for early attachments. Infant Mental Health. https://doi.org/10.1002/imhj.22078
Symeonidou, M., Mizokawa, A., Kabaya, S., Doherty, M. & Ross, J. (2023). Contrasting one’s share of the shared life space: Comparing the roles of metacognition and inhibitory control in the development of theory of mind among Scottish and Japanese children. Developmental Science, Special Issue: Towards a Globalized Developmental Science. http://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13417
Cunningham, S., Ahmed, Z., March, J., Golden, K., Wilks, C. E. H., Ross, J., & McLean, J. F. (2023). EXPRESS: Put you in the problem: Effects of self-pronouns on mathematical problem solving. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 0(ja). https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218231174229
Mentzou, A., Sixsmith, J., Ellis, M. P., & Ross, J. (2023). Change in the psychological self in people living with dementia: A scoping review. Clinical Psychology Review, 102268. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpr.2023.102268
Mentzou, A. & Ross, J. (2022). A developmental understanding of the self may provide valuable insight into the experience of selfhood in dementia. Infant and Child Development. e2388, https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.2388
Armstrong, V.G. & Ross, J. (2022). The experiences of parents and infants using a home-based art intervention aimed at improving wellbeing and connectedness in their relationship. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 732562. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.732562
Hutchison, J., Ross, J., & Cunningham, S. J. (2021). Development of evaluative and incidental self-reference effects in childhood. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2021.105197. Data available at https://osf.io/h4yc5/
Armstrong, V.G. & Ross, J. (2021). Art boxes supporting parents and infants to share creative interactions at home: an art based response to improve wellbeing during Covid-19 restrictions. Public Health, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2021.01.031
Armstrong, V.G. & Ross, J. (2020). The evidence base for art therapy with parent and infant dyads: an integrative literature review. International Journal of Art Therapy. https://doi.org/10.1080/17454832.2020.1724165
Ross, J., Hutchison, J., & Cunningham, S. J. (2020). The Me in Memory: The Role of the Self in Autobiographical Memory Development. Child Development. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13211
Taranu, M, Wimmer, M.C., Ross, J., Farkas, D., Van Ee, R., Winkler, I., &. Denham, S. (2019). Children’s perception of visual and auditory ambiguity and its link to executive function and creativity. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 184, 123-138. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2019.03.010
Armstrong, V.G, Dalinkeviciute, E. & Ross, J. (2019). A Dyadic Art Psychotherapy Group for Parents and Infants – Piloting Quantitative Methodologies for Evaluation. International Journal of Art Therapy. https://doi.org/10.1080/17454832.2019.1590432
Cunningham, S.J., Scott, L., Hutchison, J., Ross, J. & Martin, D. (2018). Applications of the self-memory bias: Improving learning through ownership. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jarmac.2018.04.004
Ross, J. (2017). You and me: Investigating the role of self-evaluative emotion in preschool prosociality. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. doi: 10.1016/j.jecp.2016.11.001 (pdf)
Ross, J. & Melinger, A. (2017). Bilingual advantage, bidialectal advantage or neither?: Comparing performance across three tests of executive function in middle childhood. Developmental Science. doi: (pdf , supplementary materials: table 3, and Appendix)
Ross, J., Yilmaz, M., Dale, R., Cassidy, R., Yildirim, I. & Zeedyk, M.S. (2017). Cultural differences in self-recognition: The early development of autonomous and related selves? Developmental Science. doi: 10.1111/desc.12387 (And summarised in the BPS Research digest here). (pdf)
Ross, J., Anderson, J.R., & Campbell, R.N. (2011). I remember me: Investigating mnemonic self-reference effects in preschool children. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 76, 1-102. doi: 10.1111/mono.2011.76.issue-3/issuetoc (pdf)
Ross, J., Anderson, J.R., & Campbell, R.N. (2011). Situational self-awareness influences 3- and 4-year-olds’ self-regulation. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 108, 126-138. doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2010.08.003 (pdf)