📙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. (2024). Grandparents’ and domestic helpers’ childcare support: Implications for well-being in Asian families. Journal of Marriage and Family. Advance online publication.
📙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.
📙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, e3138.
📙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.
📙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.
📙Lee, K. J., & Setoh, P. (2022). Early prosociality is conditional on opportunity cost and familiarity with the target. Evolution and Human Behavior.
📙Lee, K. J., Setoh, P. (2022). The developmental trajectories of racial categorization and explicit racial biases in Singapore. Acta Psychologica.
📙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. & Esposito, G. (2021). Determinants of liking: A call for multilevel assessment of wine preferences – A commentary on Werner and colleagues 2021. Food Quality and Preference, 94 (2021), 104317.
📙Carollo, A., Bonassi, A., Lim, M., Gabrieli, G., Setoh, P., Dimitriou, D., Aryadoust, V., & Esposito, G. (2021). Developmental disabilities across the world: A scientometric review from 1936 to 2020. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 117(2021), 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 (2021), 1–24.
📙Setoh, P., Santos, R., Zhang, L., Zhao, S., Heyman, G. & Lee, K. (2020). Religious parents lie less to their children. Psychology of Religion and Spirituality.
📙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
📙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., 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.
📙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.
📙Bizzego, A., Atiqah, A., Campostrini, N., Truzzi, A., Ng L.Y., Gabrieli, G., Bornstein, M. H., Setoh, P. & Esposito, G. (2020). Strangers, friends, and lovers show specific physiological synchronies in different emotional contexts. Behavioral Sciences, 10(1), 11.
📙Azhari, A., Truzzi, A., Neoh, J.M., Balagtas, J.P.M., Tan, H.A.H., Goh, P.L.P., Ang, X.H.A., Setoh, P., Rigo, P., Bornstein, M.H. and Esposito, G. (2020). A Decade of Infant Neuroimaging Research: What have we learned and where are we going? Infant Behavior and Development, 58, 101389.
📙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.
📙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.
Lum, C., Setoh, P., Tsai, J., & Ling, L. (2019). 不一样的庆祝会 [A different kind of celebration]. Singapore: ChildEd. (ISBN 978-981-228-458-7)
Lum, C., Setoh, P., Tsai, J., & Ling, L. (2019). 苏菲上幼儿园的第一天 [Sophie’s first day at kindergarten]. Singapore: ChildEd (ISBN 978-981-228-454-9)
Lum, C., Setoh, P., Tsai, J., & Ling, L. (2019). 猜猜我在说什么 [Guess what I am saying!]. Singapore: ChildEd. (ISBN 978-981-228-455-6)
Lum, C., Setoh, P., Tsai, J., & Ling, L. (2019). 大成叔叔 [Uncle Chen]. Singapore: ChildEd. ISBN (978-981-228-456-3)
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.
📙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.
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📙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.
📙Poquérusse, J., Azhari, A., Setoh, P., Cainelli, S., Ripoli, C., Venuti, P., & Esposito, G. (2018). Salivary α‐amylase as a marker of stress reduction in individuals with intellectual disability and autism in response to occupational and music therapy. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 62(2), 156-163.
📙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.
Setoh, P., Ting, F., & Baillargeon, R. (2017). 2.5-year-old toddlers understand social pretense in ingroup life. Poster presented at the 2017 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, 6-8 April 2017, Austin, Texas.
Lee, K. J. J., & Setoh, P. (2017). Preschoolers selectively enforce conventional and moral norms in an intergroup resource distribution task. Poster presented at the 2017 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, 6-8 April 2017, Austin, Texas.
Lee, K. J. J., & Setoh, P. (2017). Fairness and group loyalty in resource distribution among Singaporean preschoolers. Poster presented at the 2017 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, 6-8 April 2017, Austin, Texas.
Zhang, L., & Setoh, P. (2017). Infants’ expectations about authority figures. Poster presented at the 2017 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, 6-8 April 2017, Austin, Texas.
📙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.
📙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.
📙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.
📙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.
📙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.
📙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.
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📙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.
📙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.
📙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.
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📙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.
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., 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, 41(8), 715-725.