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  1. Bi, Y., Ding, X. P., & Yeung, W.-J. J. (2024). The link between hours of center-based childcare and child development in 3-to 6-year-olds: Evidence from Singapore. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 68, 76–89. 

  2. Tay, C., Ng, R., Ye, N. N., & Ding, X. P. (2024). Detecting lies through others’ eyes: Children use perceptual access cues to evaluate listeners’ beliefs about informants’ deception. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 241, 105863. 

  3. Hong, R. Y., Ding, X. P., Chan, K. M. Y., & Yeung, W. J. (2024). The influence of socio‐economic status on child temperament and psychological symptom profiles. British Journal of Psychology, 115(3), 535–554. 

  4. Prodan, N., Ding, X. P., & Visu-Petra, L. (2024). Truthful yet misleading: Elementary second-order deception in school-age children and its sociocognitive correlates. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 237, 105759. 

  5. Sai, L., Bi, Y., Yu, C., & Ding, X. P. (2024). The power of the lens: Filming increases honesty in children as young as five. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 37(1), e2351. 

  6. Prodan, N., Ding, X. P., Szekely-Copîndean, R. D., Tănăsescu, A., & Visu-Petra, L. (2023). Socio-cognitive correlates of primary school children’s deceptive behavior toward peers in competitive settings. Acta Psychologica, 240, 104019.

  7. Ong, J. T., Ding, X. P., & Yu, Y. (2023). Parental Mind-mindedness and Autonomy Granting are Associated with Singaporean Children’s Free Will Beliefs. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 45(45). 

  8. Ding, X.P., Tay, C., Goh, S.J., & Hong, R.Y. (2023) Parental warmth moderates the relation between child's lying and theory-of-mind. International Journal of Behavioural Development, 01650254231175835.

  9. Ding, X.P., Cheng, J.K.T., Cheng, Q., & Heyman, G.D. (2023) An assessment of when moral stories promote children's honesty. Applied Developmental Science, 1-10.

  10. Ding, X. P., Tay, C., Chua, Y. J., & Cheng, J. K. T. (2023). Can classic moral stories with anthropomorphized animal characters promote children's honesty? Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology 85, 101498

  11. Seucan, D. T., Szekely-Copîndean, R. D., Ding, X. P., &  Visu-Petra, L. (2022). Give and take: A microgenetic study of preschoolers' deceptive and prosocial behavior in relation to their socio-cognitive development. Acta Psychologica 230, 103714

  12. ​O'Connor, A.M., Chung, D. E. K., Li, Q., Ding, X. P., & Evans, A. D. (2022). Older adults are more approving of blunt honesty than younger adults: a cross-cultural study. Current Psychology, 1-14.

  13. ​Tay, C. & Ding, X. P. (2022). Parental mental state talk in two contexts: Parents’ cognitive sentential complements are positively associated with children’s theory of mind. Cognitive Development, 101192

  14. Ding, X. P., Lim, H. Y. , & Heyman, G. D. (2022). Training young children in strategic deception promotes epistemic vigilance. Developmental Psychology , (6), 1128–1138. ​

  15. ​Ye, N. N., Heyman, G. D., & Ding, X. P. (2021). Linking young children’s teaching to their reasoning of mental states: Evidence from Singapore. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 209, 105175.

  16. ​Sai, L., Shang, S., Tay, C., Liu, X., Sheng, T., Fu, G., Ding, X. P., & Lee, K. (2021). Theory of mind, executive function, and lying in children: A meta-analysis. Developmental Science, e13096. 

  17. ​Singh, L., Moh, Y., Ding, X. P., Lee, K., & Quinn, P. C. (2021). Cognitive flexibility and parental education differentially predict implicit and explicit racial biases in bilingual children. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 204, 105059. 

  18. ​Ding, X. P., Teo, S. L. Y., & Tay, C. (2021). The link between parental mental state talk and children’s lying: An indirect effect via false belief understanding. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 201, 104990. 

  19. ​Liang, Y., Fu, G., Yu, R., Bi, Y., & Ding, X. P. (2020). The Role of Reward System in Dishonest Behavior: A Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Study. Brain Topography, 1-14. 

  20. Yeung, W.-J. J., Chen, X., Ding, X. P., & Cheung, M. W.-L. (2020). An achievement test for Chinese preschool children: Validity and social correlates. Chinese Journal of Sociology, 6(4), 497–520.

  21.  Heyman, G. D., Ding, X. P., Fu, G., Xu, F., Compton, B. J., & Lee, K. (2020). Young Children Selectively Hide the Truth About Sensitive Topics. Cognitive Science, 44(3), e12824. 

  22. Bruer, K. C., Zanette, S., Ding, X. P., Lyon, T. D., & Lee, K. (2020). Identifying Liars Through Automatic Decoding of Children's Facial Expressions. Child Development, 91(4), e995-e1011. 

  23. ​Ma, W., Sai, L., Tay, C., Du, Y., Jiang, J., & Ding, X. P. (2019). Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder’s Lying is Correlated with Their Working Memory But Not Theory of Mind. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. 49(8), 3364-3375. 

  24. ​Ding, X. P., O'Connor, A. M., Weng, M., Tang, Q., Fu, G., & Evans, A. D. (2019). The effects of self- and other-awareness on Chinese children's truth-telling. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 37(3), 323-335.

  25. ​Sai, L.#, Ding, X. P.#, Gao, X., & Fu, G. (2018). Children’s second-order lying: Young children can tell the truth to deceive. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 176, 128-139. (# co-first author)

  26. ​Ding, X. P., Heyman, G. D., Sai, L., Yuan, F., Winkielman, P., Fu, G., & Lee, K. (2018). Learning to deceive has cognitive benefits. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 176, 26-38.

  27. ​Ding, X. P., Heyman, G. D., Fu, G., Zhu, B., & Lee, K. (2018). Young children discover how to deceive in 10 days: a microgenetic study. Developmental Science, 21(3), e12566.

  28. ​Ding, X. P., Wu, S. J., Liu, J., Fu, G., & Lee, K. (2017). Functional neural networks of honesty and dishonesty in children: Evidence from graph theory analysis. Scientific Reports, 7(1), 12085.

  29. ​Zhao, J., Liu, J., Jiang, X., Zhou, G., Chen, G., Ding, X. P., . . . Lee, K. (2016). Linking resting-state networks in the prefrontal cortex to executive function: A functional near-infrared spectroscopy study. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 10.

  30. Zhou, G., Liu, J., Ding, X. P., Fu, G., & Lee, K. (2016). Development of effective connectivity during own-and other-race face processing: A granger causality analysis. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 10.

  31. ​Ding, X. P., Wellman, H. M., Wang, Y., Fu, G., & Lee, K. (2015). Theory-of-mind training causes honest young children to lie. Psychological Science, 26(11), 1812-1821.

  32. ​Sai, L., Zhou, X., Ding, X. P., Fu, G., & Sang, B. (2014). Detecting concealed information using functional near-infrared spectroscopy. Brain Topography, 27(5), 652-662.

  33. ​Ding, X. P., Omrin, D. S., Evans, A. D., Fu, G., Chen, G. & Lee, K. (2014). Elementary school children's cheating behavior and its cognitive correlates. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 121, 85–95.

  34. ​Ding, X. P., Sai, L., Fu, G., Liu, J., & Lee, K. (2014). Neural correlates of second-order verbal deception: A functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) study. NeuroImage, 87, 505–514.

  35. ​Ding, X. P., Fu, G., & Lee, K. (2014). Neural correlates of own- and other-race face recognition in children: A functional near-infrared spectroscopy study. NeuroImage, 85, 335-344.

  36. ​Fu, G., Mondloch, C., Ding, X. P., Short, L., Sun, L., & Lee, K. (2014). The neural correlates of the face attractiveness aftereffect: A functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) study. NeuroImage, 85, 363-371.

  37. ​Ding, X. P., Gao, X., Fu, G., & Lee, K.  (2013). Neural correlates of spontaneous deception: A functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) study. Neuropsychologia, 51(4), 704-712.

  38. ​Ding, X. P., Du, X., Lei, D., Hu, C. S., Fu, G., & Chen, G. (2012). The neural correlates of identity faking and concealment: An fMRI study. PloS One, 7(11), e48639.

  39. ​Fu, G., Brunet, M. K., Lv, Y., Ding, X. P., Heyman, G. D., Cameron, C. A., & Lee, K. (2010). Chinese children's moral evaluation of lies and truths—roles of context and parental individualism–collectivism tendencies. Infant and Child Development, 19(5), 498-515.

  40. ​Ding, X. P., & Fu, G. (2013). The application of the functional near-infrared spectroscopy in child development. Early Childhood Education, 12, 11-14. [in Chinese]

  41. ​Fu, G., Ma, Y. & Ding, X. P. (2009). Cognition or deception: GKT laboratory research with the card test paradigm. Chinese Psychological Science, 32(1), 173-175. [in Chinese]

  42. ​Fu, G., Ma, Y. & Ding, X. P. (2009). GKT laboratory research with the mock-crime paradigm. The Journal of Chinese Clinical Psychology, 16(5), 481-484. [in Chinese]

  43. ​Ding, X. P., & Fu, G. (2008). Children’s evaluation of sources of information about psychological traits. Chinese Psychological Science, 31(3), 754-758. [in Chinese]

  44. ​Fu, G., Ma, Y. & Ding, X. P. (2008). Research on guilty knowledge test lie detection pattern. The Journal of Chinese Clinical Psychology, 16(1), 106-109. [in Chinese]

  45. ​Ding, X. P., Yu, X., Ma, J., Hu, H., & Fu, G. (2008). An ERP study on visual illusory motion. Space Medicine & Medical Engineering, 21(1), 70-72. [in Chinese]

  46. ​Fu, G., & Ding, X. P. (2006). Children’s evaluation of self-report about psychological traits. Chinese Psychological Science, 31(3), 754-758. [in Chinese]

  47. ​Xu, Q., Ding, X. P. & Fu, G. (2005). Investigation on autistic children and treatments. Chinese Special Education, 6, 59-64. [in Chinese]

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