2025
Ngoh, G., Sim, L. W., Tsotsi, S., Khng, K. H., Setoh, P. P., Law, E. C., … & Rifkin-Graboi, A. (2025). Grandparental care and early childhood development: A decade’s worth of insight from three Singaporean cohorts. Developmental Psychology.
Yu, M., Tng, G. Y., Lin, Z., Chen, H., Eriksson, J. G., Chong, Y. S., … & Setoh, P. (2025). Early socioeconomic conditions to children’s trait resilience: longitudinal mediation effects of mothers’ and fathers’ parenting. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health, 19(1), 123.
Tng, G., Law, E., Chen, H., Nadarajan, R., Eriksson, J. G., Chong, Y. S., Tiemeier, H., & Setoh, P. (2025). Developmental trajectories of anxiety subtypes from childhood to early adolescence: The role of parenting practices and maternal distress. Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology.
Seow, C., Sudo, M., Kyeong, Y., Chen, H., Kee, M. Z., Meaney, M. J., … & Setoh, P. (2025). Early Maternal Parenting Profiles and Subsequent Child Well‐Being in an Asian Cohort. Journal of Marriage and Family.
Won, Y. Q., Sudo, M., Tiemeier, H., & Setoh, P. (2025). Parental physical discipline in Singapore: Childhood experiences and future behavioral intentions. Acta Psychologica, 257, 105071.
Kotlar, B., Kotlar, A., Sadikova, E., Jimenez, M., Yousafzai, A., Sudo, M., Kyeong, Y., Setoh, P., … & Tiemeier, H. (2025). Whose sleep matters? Untangling the relationships between maternal sleep, child sleep, and maternal depressive symptoms in the first two years of life. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 1-12.
Won, Y. Q., Kyeong, Y., & Setoh, P. (2025). Childhood harsh discipline and behavioral problems: the mediating roles of attachment dimensions. Child Protection and Practice, 100129.
Koyama, Y., Tan, A. P., Sadikova, E., Setoh, P., Broekman, B., Zhou, J. H., … & Tiemeier, H. (2025). Maternal depressive symptoms in childhood and offspring brain cortical and subcortical volumetric change: A repeated imaging study from age 4-10 years. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 101531.
Sudo, M., Low, P. H. X., Kyeong, Y., Meaney, M. J., Kee, M. Z. L., Chen, H., Broekman, B. F. P., Nadarajan, R., Rifkin-Graboi, A., TIemeier, H., & Setoh, P. (2025). Grandparents’ and domestic helpers’ childcare support: Implications for well-being in Asian families. Journal of Marriage and Family. Advance online publication.
Kyeong, Y., Yu, M., Tiemeier, H., Bakermans-Kranenburg, M. J., & Setoh, P. (2025). Filial Piety Across Sociocultural Context and the Life Span. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 09637214241312630.
2024
Koyama, Y., Tiemeier, H., Huang, P., Chan, S. Y., Sudo, M., Kyeong, Y., … & Tan, A. P. (2024). Harsh parenting, amygdala functional connectivity changes across childhood, and behavioral problems. Psychological Medicine, 54(14), 3809-3820.
Tan, S. Y. X., Chia, A., Tai, B. C., Toh, J. Y., Colega, M., Padmapriya, N., Setoh, P., … & Chong, M. F. F. (2024). Correlates of lifestyle patterns among children in Singapore aged 10 years: the growing up in Singapore towards healthy outcomes (GUSTO) study. BMC Public Health, 24(1), 2147.
Low, P. H. X., Kyeong, Y., & Setoh, P. (2024). Parenting by lying and children’s lying to parents: The moderating role of children’s beliefs. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 240, 105837.
Setoh, P., Low, P. H. X., Heyman, G. D., & Lee, K. (2024). Parenting by lying. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 33(1), 51-57.
2023
Sudo, M., Won, Y. Q., Chau, W. W., Meaney, M. J., Kee, M. Z., Chen, H., … & Setoh, P. (2023). Physical discipline as a normative childhood experience in Singapore. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health, 17(1), 1-17.
Setoh, P., Sudo, M., Quinn, P. C., & Lee, K. (2023). Does extended experience with other-race nannies predict racial bias in the preschool years?. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 235.
Lee, K. J., & Setoh, P. (2023). Early prosociality is conditional on opportunity cost and familiarity with the target. Evolution and Human Behavior.
Gabrieli, G., Bornstein, M. H., Setoh, P., & Esposito, G. (2023). Machine learning estimation of users’ implicit and explicit aesthetic judgments of web-pages. Behaviour & Information Technology, 42(4), 392-402.
Carollo, A., Rigo, P., Bizzego, A., Lee, A., Setoh, P., & Esposito, G. (2023). Exposure to Multicultural Context Affects Neural Response to Out-Group Faces: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study. Sensors, 23(8), 4030.
Tolomeo, S., Lau, S., Ragunath, B. L., Setoh, P., & Esposito, G. (2023). A voxel‐based morphometry study on gray matter correlates of need for cognition and exploratory information seeking. Brain and Behavior, 13(9), e3138.
Neoh, M. J. Y., Teng, J. H., Setoh, P., & Esposito, G. (2023). Perceptions of sexism interact with perceived criticism on women’s response to sexist remarks in different relationship types. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 18393.
2022
Neoh, M.J.Y., Teng, J.H., Setoh, P. & Esposito, G. (2022). Perceptions of sexism interact with perceived criticism on women’s response to sexist remarks in different relationship types. Scientific Reports, 13, 18393.
Lai, J., Pham, P. T., Bate, J., Prout, T. A., Carollo, A., Setoh, P., … & Borelli, J. L. (2022). Being a Parent during COVID-19: Risk for Psychological Distress in the United States and Italy. Social Sciences, 11(4), 173.
Raghunath, B. L., Sng, K. H. L., Chen, S. H., Vijayaragavan, V., Gulyás, B., Setoh, P., & Esposito, G. (2022). Stronger brain activation for own baby but similar activation toward babies of own and different ethnicities in parents living in a multicultural environment. Scientific Reports, 12(1), 1-13.
Zhao, S., Setoh, P., Storage, D., & Cimpian, A. (2022). The Acquisition of the Gender-Brilliance Stereotype: Age Trajectory, Relation to Parents’ Stereotypes, and Intersections with Race/Ethnicity. Child Development.
Setoh, P., Santos, R., Zhao, S., Zhang, L., Heyman, G. D., & Lee, K. (2022). Parents with greater religiosity lie less to their children. Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, 14(1), 108.
Neoh, M. J. Y., Setoh, P., Bizzego, A., Tandiono, M., Foo, J. N., Lee, A., … & Esposito, G. (2022). Gene–environment interactions in face categorization: Oxytocin receptor genotype x childcare experience shortens reaction time. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 873676.
Neoh, M. J. Y., Teng, J. H., Lee, A., Setoh, P., Mulatti, C., & Esposito, G. (2022). Negative emotional reactions to criticism: Perceived criticism and source affects extent of hurt and relational distancing. Plos one, 17(8), e0271869.
Lee, K. J., & Setoh, P. (2022). The developmental trajectories of racial categorization and explicit racial biases in Singapore. Acta Psychologica, 229, 103694.
2021
Setoh, P., & Esposito, G. (2021). Determinants of liking: a call for multilevel assessment of wine preferences–a commentary on Werner and colleagues. Food Quality and Preference.
Esposito, G., Raghunath, B. L., Azhari, A., Setoh, P., & Bornstein, M. H. (2021). Predicting mother and child emotional availability in Singaporean bilingual English and mandarin dyads: A multilevel approach to the specificity principle. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 73, 101241.
Gabrieli, G., Lee, A., Setoh, P., & Esposito, G. (2021). An analysis of the generalizability and stability of the halo effect during the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak. Frontiers in psychology, 12, 631871.
Cataldo, I., Bonassi, A., Lepri, B., Foo, J. N., Setoh, P., & Esposito, G. (2021). Recalled parental bonding interacts with oxytocin receptor gene polymorphism in modulating anxiety and avoidance in adult relationships. Brain sciences, 11(4), 496.
Navarini, N., Venturoso, L., Gabrieli, G., Truzzi, A., Lim, M., Setoh, P., & Esposito, G. (2021). The influence of Baby Schema effect and mere exposure effect on implicit and explicit face processing: a follow-up study. Experimental Psychology (Russia), 14(2), 124-140.
Esposito, G., & Setoh, P. (2021). Parental involvement in developmental disabilities across cultures. Research in developmental disabilities.
Carollo, A., Bonassi, A., Lim, M., Gabrieli, G., Setoh, P., Dimitriou, D., … & Esposito, G. (2021). Developmental disabilities across the world: A scientometric review from 1936 to 2020. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 117, 104031.
Setoh, P., Cheng, M., Bornstein, M. H., & Esposito, G. (2021). Contrasting lexical biases in bilingual English–Mandarin speech: Verb-biased mothers, but noun-biased toddlers. Journal of Child Language, 48(6), 1185-1208.
2020
Raghunath, B., Azhari, A., Bornstein, M. H., Setoh, P., & Esposito, G. (2020). Experimental manipulation of maternal proximity during short sequences of sleep and infant calming responses. Infant Behavior and Development, 59, 101426.
Setoh, P., Scott, R. M., & Baillargeon, R. (2020). Reply to Fenici and Garofoli: Why Would Toddlers Act on Low-Level Associations Only when Processing Demands Are Reduced? Human Development, 1–3.
Scott, R. M., Roby, E., & Setoh, P. (2020). 2.5-year-olds succeed in identity and location elicited-response false-belief tasks with adequate response practice. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 198, 104890
Azhari, A., Truzzi, A., Neoh, M. J. Y., Balagtas, J. P. M., Tan, H. H., Goh, P. P., Ang, A. A., Setoh, P., … & Esposito, G. (2020). A decade of infant neuroimaging research: what have we learned and where are we going?. Infant Behavior and Development, 58, 101389.
Bizzego, A., Lim, M., Schiavon, G., Setoh, P., Gabrieli, G., Dimitriou, D., & Esposito, G. (2020). Child disability and caregiving in low and middle income countries: Big data approach on open data. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 107, 103795.
Gabrieli, G., Balagtas, J. P. M., Esposito, G., & Setoh, P. (2020). A Machine Learning approach for the automatic estimation of fixation-time data signals’ quality. Sensors, 20(23), 6775.
Bizzego, A., Gabrieli, G., Azhari, A., Setoh, P., & Esposito, G. (2020). Computational methods for the assessment of empathic synchrony. In Progresses in Artificial Intelligence and Neural Systems (pp. 555-564). Singapore: Springer Singapore.
Azhari, A., Wong, A. W. T., Lim, M., Balagtas, J. P. M., Gabrieli, G., Setoh, P., & Esposito, G. (2020). Parents’ past bonding experience with their parents interacts with current parenting stress to influence the quality of interaction with their child. Behavioral Sciences, 10(7), 114.
Cheng, M., Setoh, P., Bornstein, M. H., & Esposito, G. (2020). She thinks in English, but she wants in Mandarin: Differences in Singaporean bilingual English–Mandarin maternal mental-state-talk. Behavioral Sciences, 10(7), 106.
Setoh, P., Zhao, S., Santos, R., Heyman, G. D., & Lee, K. (2020). Parenting by lying in childhood is associated with negative developmental outcomes in adulthood. Journal of experimental child psychology, 189, 104680.
2019
Setoh, P., Zhao, S., Santos, R., Heyman, G. D., & Lee, K. (2019). Parenting by lying in childhood is associated with negative developmental outcomes in adulthood. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology.
Setoh, P., Zhao, S., Santos, R., Heyman, G. D., & Lee, K. (2019). Dataset on childhood exposure to parenting by lying and its associations with adulthood psychosocial outcomes in a Singapore sample Data in Brief, 26, 104472.
Azhari, A., Leck, W. Q., Gabrieli, G., Bizzego, A., Rigo, P., Setoh, P., … & Esposito, G. (2019). Parenting Stress Undermines Mother-Child Brain-to-Brain Synchrony: A Hyperscanning Study. Scientific reports, 9(1), 1-9.
Setoh, P., & Esposito, G. (2019). What men do when a baby cries: Increasing testosterone may lead to less nurturant care but more environmental vigilance. Parenting, 19(1-2), 62-64.
Setoh, P., Lee, K. J., Zhang, L., Qian, M. K., Quinn, P. C., Heyman, G. D., & Lee, K. (2019). Racial categorization predicts implicit racial bias in preschool children. Child Development, 90(1), 162-179.
Setoh, P., Zhao, S., Storage, D., & Cimpian, A. (2019). Singaporean children’s implicit ethnic stereotypes about intelligence. Paper presented at 2019 Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, 21-23 March 2019, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Boston, J., Lei, R., Chestnut, E., Vraneski-Shachna, R., Setoh, P., Zhao, S., Storage, D., & Cimpian, A. (2019). The acquisition of gender stereotypes about brilliance: A cross-cultural and intersectional perspective. Paper presented at 2019 Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, 21-23 March 2019, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Cimpian, A., Boston, J., Lei, R., & Setoh, P. (2019). The early development of gender stereotypes about intellectual ability: An intersectional and cross-cultural perspective. Paper presented at 2019 Society for Personality and Social Psychology’s Annual Convention, 7-9 February 2019, Portland, Oregon, USA.
2018
Lee, K. J. J., Esposito, G., & Setoh, P. (2018). Preschoolers Favor Their Ingroup When Resources Are Limited. Frontiers in Psychology, 9.
Setoh, P., & Cheng, M. (2018). Fostering character strengths and its influence on prosocial behaviors. Poster presented at Promoting Character Development Among Diverse Children and Adolescents, Society for Research in Child Development Special Topics Conference, 18-20 October 2018, Philadelphia, USA.
Truzzi, A., Poquérusse, J., Setoh, P., Shinohara, K., Bornstein, M. H., & Esposito, G. (2018). Oxytocin receptor gene polymorphisms (rs53576) and early paternal care sensitize males to distressing female vocalizations. Developmental Psychobiology, 60(3), 333-339
2017
Esposito, G., Truzzi, A., Setoh, P., Putnick, D. L., Shinohara, K., & Bornstein, M. H. (2017). Genetic predispositions and parental bonding interact to shape adults’ physiological responses to social distress. Behavioral Brain Research, 325(B), 156-162
Truzzi, A., Bornstein, M. H., Senese, V. P., Shinohara, K. Setoh, P., & Esposito, G. (2017). Serotonin transporter gene polymorphisms and early parent-infant interactions are related to adult male heart rate response to female crying. Frontiers in Physiology, 8(2017), 111.
Esposito, G., Setoh, P., Shinohara, K., Bornstein, M. H. (2017). The development of attachment: Integrating genes, brain, behavior, and environment. Behavioural Brain Research, 325(B), 87-89.
Scott, R. M., Setoh, P., & Baillargeon, R. (2017). Reply to Rubio-Fernández et al.: Different traditional false-belief tasks impose different processing demands for toddlers. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(19), E3751-E3752.
Setoh, P., Marschik, P. B., Einspieler, C., & Esposito, G. (2017). Autism spectrum disorder and early motor abnormalities: Connected or coincidental companions?. Research in developmental disabilities, 60, 13-15.
Bonassi, A., Ghilardi, T., Truzzi, A., Cataldo, I., Azhari, A., Setoh, P., … & Esposito, G. (2017). Dataset on genetic and physiological adults׳ responses to social distress. Data in brief, 13, 742-748.
2009 – 2016
Zhang, X., Pomerantz, E. M., Setoh, P., Qu, Y., & Wang, M. (2016). The role of affect in the positive self: Two longitudinal investigations of young adolescents in the United States and China. Journal of personality and social psychology, 111(1), 83.
Truzzi, A., Senese, V. P., Setoh, P., Ripoli, C., & Esposito, G. (2016). In utero testosterone exposure influences physiological responses to dyadic interactions in neurotypical adults. Acta Neuropsychiatrica, 28(5), 304-309.
Truzzi, A., Setoh, P., Shinohara, K., & Esposito, G. (2016). Physiological responses to dyadic interactions are influenced by neurotypical adults’ levels of autistic and empathy traits. Physiology & behavior, 165, 7-14.
Setoh, P., Scott, R. M., & Baillargeon, R. (2016). Two-and-a-half-year-olds succeed at a traditional false-belief task with reduced processing demands. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113(47), 13360-13365.
Dalsant, A., Truzzi, A., Setoh, P., & Esposito, G. (2015). Maternal bonding in childhood moderates autonomic responses to distress stimuli in adult males. Behavioural Brain Research, 292(2015), 428-431.
Esposito, G., Setoh, P., & Bornstein, M. H. (2015). Beyond practices and values: Toward a Physio-BioEcological analysis of sleeping arrangements in early infancy. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 264.
Esposito, G., Setoh, P., Yoshida, S., & Kuroda, K. O. (2015). The calming effect of maternal carrying in different mammalian species. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 445.
Setoh, P., Qin, L., Zhang, X., & Pomerantz, E. M. (2015). The Social Self in Early Adolescence: Two Longitudinal Investigations in the United States and China. Developmental Psychology, 51(7), 949.
Zhang, X., Pomerantz, E. M., Setoh, P., Qu, Y., & Wang, M. (2015). The Role of Affect in the Positive Self: Two Longitudinal Investigations of Young Adolescents in the United States and China. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 111(1), 83.
Baillargeon, R., Scott, R. M., He, Z., Sloane, S., Setoh, P., Jin, K., Wu, D., & Bian, L. (2015). Psychological and sociomoral reasoning in infancy. In M. Mikulincer, P. R. Shaver (Eds.), E. Borgida, & J. A. Bargh (Assoc. Eds.), APA handbook of personality and social psychology: vol. 1. attitudes and social cognition (pp. 79-150). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Baillargeon, R., Setoh, P., Sloane, S., Jin, K., & Bian, L. (2014). Infant social cognition: Psychological and sociomoral reasoning. In M. S. Gazzaniga & G. R. Mangun (Eds.-in-chief), The cognitive neurosciences (5th ed., pp. 7-14). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Baillargeon, R., He, Z., Setoh, P., Scott, R., & Yang, D. (2014). The development of false-belief understanding and why it matters. In The Development of Social Cognition. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Barrett, H., Broesch, T., Scott, R. M., He, Z., Baillargeon, R., Wu, D., Bolz, M., Henrich, J., Setoh, P., Wang, J., & Laurence, S. (2013). Early false-belief understanding in traditional non-Western societies. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 280(1755), 20122654.
Setoh, P., Wu, D., Baillargeon, R., & Gelman, R. (2013). Young infants have biological expectations about animals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 110(40), 15937-15942.
Scott, R. M., Setoh, P., & Baillargeon, R. (2013). Processing demands affect young children’s performance in both spontaneous-and elicited-response false-belief tasks. Symposium conducted at the meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Seattle, Washington, USA.
Setoh, P., Wu, D., & Baillargeon, R. (2013). 8-month-old Infants Expect Animals to Have Guts. Paper presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development.
Baillargeon, R., He Z., Setoh P., Scott R. M., Sloane S., & Yang Y., (2013). False-belief understanding and why it matters: The social-acting hypothesis. In M. R. Banaji & S. Gelman (Eds.), Navigating the social world: what infants, children, and other species can teach us (pp. 88-95). New York: Oxford Press.
Baillargeon, R., Stavans, M., Wu, D., Gertner, Y., Setoh, P., Kittredge, A. K., Bernard, A. (2012). Object individuation and physical reasoning in infancy: An integrative account. Language Learning and Development, 8(1), 4-46.
Scott, R. M., & Setoh, P. (2012). Nature of response practice affects 2.5-year-olds’ performance in elicited-response false-belief tasks. Paper presented at the biennial international conference on infant studies, Minneapolis, MN.
Setoh, P., & Baillargeon, R. (2011, March). How do infants generalize new physical expectations. Paper presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development.
Setoh, P., Scott, R. M., & Baillargeon, R. (2011). False-belief reasoning in 2.5-year-olds: Evidence from an elicited-response low-inhibition task. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Montreal, Canada.
Setoh, P., & Baillargeon, R. (2010, March). Infants generalize food preferences across novel animals based on shape. Paper presented at the Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Chen, J., Setoh, P. P., Meng, X. Z., & Tardif, T. (2009). The influence of adult input on children’s early word learning: A case study of a Mandarin-speaking child. Acta Psychologica Sinica.