Publications

Journal Articles

Tan, E., Troller-Renfree, S. V., Morales, S., Buzzell, G. A., McSweeney, M., Antúnez, M., & Fox, N. A. (2024). Theta activity and cognitive functioning: Integrating evidence from resting-state and task-related developmental electroencephalography (EEG) research. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 67, 101404. doi:10.1016/j.dcn.2024.101404 📄

Antúnez, M., McSweeney, M., Zeytinoglu, S., Tan, E., Zeanah, C. H., Nelson, C. A., & Fox, N. A. (in press). Exploring background aperiodic EEG activity in the Bucharest Early Intervention Project. Developmental Psychology.

Tan, E., & Hamlin, J. K. (2024). Toddlers’ affective responses to sociomoral scenes: Insights from physiological measures. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 237, 105757. doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2023.105757 📄

Tan, E., Tang, A., Debnath, R., Humphreys, K. L., Zeanah, C. H., Nelson, C. A., & Fox, N. A. (2023). Resting brain activity in early childhood predicts IQ at 18 years. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 63, 101287. doi:10.1016/j.dcn.2023.101287 📄

Tan, E., Zeytinoglu, S., Morales, S., Buzzell, G. A., Almas, A. N., Degnan, K. A., Chronis-Tuscano, A., Henderson, H., Pine, D. S., & Fox, N. A. (2023). Social versus non-social behavioral inhibition: Differential prediction from early childhood of long-term psychosocial outcomes. Developmental Science, e13427. doi:10.1111/desc.13427 📄

Conte, S., Richards, J. E., Fox, N. A., Valadez, E. A., McSweeney, M., Tan, E., Pine, D. S., Winkler, A. M., Liuzzi, L., Cardinale, E. M., White, L. K., Buzzell, G. A. (2023). Multimodal study of the neural sources of error monitoring in adolescents and adults. Psychophysiology, e14336. doi:10.1111/psyp.14336 📄

Drew, R., Tan, E., Yuen, F., & Hamlin, J. K. (2023). We aren’t especially fearful apes, and fearful apes aren’t especially prosocial (Commentary on Grossmann, 2022: The human fear paradox: Affective origins of cooperative care). Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 46, E60. doi:10.1017/S0140525X22001807 📄

Woo, B. M., Tan, E., Yuen, F. L., & Hamlin, J. K. (2023). Socially evaluative contexts facilitate mentalizing. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 27(1), 17-29. doi:10.1016/j.tics.2022.10.003 📄

Woo, B. M., Tan, E., & Hamlin, J. K. (2022). Human morality is based on an early-emerging moral core. Annual Review of Developmental Psychology, 4, 41-61. doi:10.1146/annurev-devpsych-121020-023312 📄

Tan, E., & Hamlin, J. K. (2022). Infants’ neural responses to helping and hindering scenarios. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 54, 101095. doi:10.1016/j.dcn.2022.101095 📄

Tan, E., & Hamlin, J. K. (2022). Mechanisms of social evaluation in infancy: A preregistered exploration of infants’ eye-movement and pupillary responses to prosocial and antisocial events. Infancy, 27(2), 255-276. doi:10.1111/infa.12447 📄

Tan, E., Mikami, A. Y., Luzhanska, A., & Hamlin, J. K. (2021). The homogeneity and heterogeneity of moral functioning in preschool. Child Development, 92(3), 959-975. doi:10.1111/cdev.13458 📄

Woo, B. M., Tan, E., & Hamlin, J. K. (2021). Theory of mind in context: Mental-state representations for social evaluation. (Commentary on Phillips et al., 2021: Knowledge before belief). Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 44, e176, Article e176. doi:10.1017/S0140525X20001818 📄

Tan, E., Mikami, A. Y., & Hamlin, J. K. (2018). Do infant sociomoral evaluation and action studies predict preschool social and behavioral adjustment? Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 176, 39-54. doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2018.07.003 📄

Tan, E., Wu, X., Nishida, T., Huang, D., Chen, Z., & Yi, L. (2018). Analogical reasoning in children with autism spectrum disorder: Evidence from an eye-tracking approach. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 847. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00847 📄

Chen, Z., Honomichl, R., Kennedy, D., & Tan, E., (2016). Aiming to complete the matrix: Eye-movement analysis of processing strategies in children’s relational thinking. Developmental Psychology, 52(6), 867-878. doi:10.1037/dev0000113 📄

Yi, L., Tan, E., Fan, Y., Liu, Y., & Zhou, G. (2014). Autism spectrum disorder individuals’ processing of own- and other-race faces in ethnic scene backgrounds: An eye-movement study. Journal of Psychological Science [Chinese], 37(2), 478-482.

Tan, E., Zou, Y., He, J., & Huang, M. (2011). Empathy and subjective well-being: Emotion regulation as a mediator. Chinese Journal of Clinical Psychology [Chinese], 19(5), 672-674.

Book Chapters

Hamlin, J. K., & Tan, E. (2020). The emergence of moral responses and sensitivity. In L. Jensen (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Moral Development (pp. 267-287). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. 📄

Manuscripts Under Review or in Preparation

Tan, E., Van de Vondervoort, J. W., Dhaliwal, J. , Aknin, L. B., & Hamlin, J. K. (in preparation). Sharing resources with others is emotionally rewarding for toddlers.

Zeytinoglu, S., Buzzell, G., Morales, S., Valadez, E., Tan, E., McSweeney, M., Degnan, K., Chronis-Tuscano, A., Hendeson, H., Pine, D. S., & Fox, N. A. (under review). A neurobehavioral mechanism linking parent personality and early temperament with social anxiety in young adulthood.