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2026

  • Chan, M. H. M., Kathuria, T., Friedlmeier, W., Feng, X., & Kapadia, S. (2026) Maternal Emotion Socialization in Chinese, Indian, and European American Families: Socialization Goals as a Culturally Embedded Factor. Frontiers in Psychology, 17, 1772882. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1772882
  • Chan, M. H.-M., Feng, X., Wang, Z., & Wang, L. (2026). Maternal Meta-Emotion Philosophy Across Cultures: How Beijing Chinese, Hong Kong Chinese, and European American Mothers Make Sense of Dismissing Children’s Negative Emotions. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 00220221251406548. https://doi.org/10.1177/00220221251406548
  • Chan, M. H.-M., Merrill, S. S., Zhuang, B. C., Lin, D. T. S., Macisaac, J. L., Miegakanda, V., Lew-Levy, S., Boyette, A. H., Kobor, M. S., & Gettler, L. T. (2026). Children’s DNA Methylation and Family Dynamics in a Congo Basin Subsistence Community: Links with Parental Conflict and Fathers’ Caregiving. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.06.15.732362
  • Chan, M. H., Meijer, M., Merrill, S. M., Fu, M. P. Y., Lin, D., MacIsaac, J. L., Riis, J. L., Granger, D. A., Thomas, E. A., & Kobor, M. S. (2026). Not All Saliva Samples Are Equal: The Role of Cellular Heterogeneity in DNA methylation and Epigenetic Age Analyses with Biological and Psychosocial Factors. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 107688. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2025.107688
  • Gong, Y., Wang, J., Chan, M. H., Xu, X., & Feng, X. (2026). Sentiment analysis of parent–child emotional co-regulation: The roles of child temperament. Emotion.  https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001739
  • Meijer, M., Fu, M. P. Y., Navarro-Delgado, E. I., Engelbrecht, H.-R., Turecki, G., Chan, M. H., & Kobor, M. S. (2026). Peripheral blood DNA methylation partially reports on immune cell type composition in the frontal brain. Brain, Behavior, & Immunity – Health, 56, 101316. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbih.2026.101316

2025

  • Chan, M. H., Merrill, S. M., Fatima, F., MacIsaac, J. L., Obradović, J., Boyce, W. T., & Kobor, M. S. (2025). Cross-tissue specificity of pediatric DNA methylation associated with cumulative family stress. Developmental Psychobiology 67(6), e70097. https://doi.org/10.1002/dev.70097
  • Chan, M. HM., Feng, X., Gong, Y., & Inboden, K. (2025). Longitudinal changes in preschoolers’ self-reported psychological and social problems: Feasibility, reliability, and cross-informant agreement. Child Psychiatry & Human Development. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10578-025-01864-w
  • Ha, A. S., Zeng, T., Chan, M. H. M., Chan, C. H. S., Okely, A. D., Leung, S. K. Y., & Ng, J. Y. Y. (2025). Effects of a teacher-led social cognitive theory-based multicomponent movement education program on preschoolers’ fundamental movement skills and physical activity: The PA-REALITY cluster-randomized controlled trial. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12966-025-01864-y
  • Gong, Y., Feng, X., Chan, M. H.-M., & Inboden, K. (2025). Coping in crisis: Family processes and maternal-child psychological well-being during COVID-19. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/ort0000895
  • Feng, X., Gong, Y., Chan, M. H.-m., Inboden, K., & Wang, Q. (2025). Mother–child reminiscing of emotional events during the pandemic: The role of changing family relationships and maternal prepandemic depression. Developmental Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0002036

2024

  • Gong, Y., Feng, X., Chan, M. H., & Slesnick, N. (2024). Prospective associations of maternal depressive symptoms and emotion dysregulation with children’s internalizing problems: The moderating role of fathers. Child Psychiatry & Human Development. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10578-024-01752-9

2023

2022

  • Foley, S., Ronchi, L., Lecce, S., Feng, X., Chan, M. H., Hughes, C. & i-FAM COVID-19 Consortium (2022). Cross-cultural equivalence of parental ratings of child difficulties during the pandemic: findings from a six-site study. International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research. https://doi.org/10.1002/mpr.1933.

2021

  • Chan, M. H.-m., Feng, X., Inboden, K., Hooper, E. G., & Gerhardt, M. (2021). Dynamic, bidirectional influences of children’s emotions and maternal regulatory strategies. Emotion. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001005.
  • Ribner, A. D., Coulanges, L., Friedman, S., Libertus, M. E., Hughes, C., Foley, S., Devine, R., Fink, E., Selby, A., Brocki, K., Frick, M., Badinlou, F., Feng, X., Chan, M., Slaughter, V., Clark, S., Su, Y., Wan, S., Lecce, S., … Silver, A. (2021). Screen time in the Coronavirus 2019 era: International trends of increasing use among 3- to 7-year-old children. The Journal of Pediatrics, 239, 59-66.e1. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpeds.2021.08.068
  • Gerhardt, M., Feng, X., & Chan, M. H.-m. (2021). Long-term association of parental warmth with depression and obesity: Mediation by conscientiousness. Health Psychology, 40(3), 188–195. https://doi.org/10.1037/hea0001061

2020

  • Chan, M. H., Wang, Z., Devine, R. T., & Hughes, C. (2020). Parental mental-state talk and false belief understanding in Hong Kong children. Cognitive Development, 55, 100926. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2020.100926
  • Gerhardt, M., Feng, X., Wu, Q., Hooper, E. G., Ku, S., & Chan, M. H. (2020). A naturalistic study of parental emotion socialization: Unique contributions of fathers. Journal of Family Psychology, 34(2), 204

2019

  • Chan, M. H., Gerhardt, M., & Feng, X. (2019). Measurement invariance across age groups and over twenty years’ time of the Negative and Positive Affect Scale (NAPAS). European Journal of Psychological Assessment. https://doi.org/10.1027/1015-5759/a000529
  • Wu, Q., Feng, X., Hooper, E. G., Gerhardt, M., Ku, S., & Chan, M. H. M. (2019). Mother’s emotion coaching and preschooler’s emotionality: Moderation by maternal parenting stress. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 65, 101066. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appdev.2019.101066
  • Tse, C. S., Chan, M. H. M., Tse, W. S., & Wong, S. W. H. (2019). Can the testing effect for general knowledge facts be influenced by distraction due to divided attention or experimentally-induced anxious mood?. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 969. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00969
  • Gu, X., Tse, C. S., & Chan, M. H. (2019). Are older adults in Hong Kong “living in history” in their autobiographical memories?. Applied Cognitive Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.3603

2017

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