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CSC Child Study Center

The Child Study Center is dedicated to promoting children’s development and well-being through the dynamic integration of research, undergraduate and graduate training, and engaged community outreach.

We are housed in the Department of Psychology in the College of the Liberal Arts.

The Child Study Center is dedicated to promoting children’s development and well-being through the dynamic integration of research, undergraduate and graduate training, and engaged community outreach.

We are housed in the Department of Psychology in the College of the Liberal Arts.

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August 13, 2026
Tenth Annual Central PA Workshop on Evidence-Based Mental Health Services
Amanda B. Nickerson, PhD, NCSP
University of Buffalo, SUNY
8:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m., Memorial Lounge, 107 Pasquerilla Spiritual Center
Co-sponsored by the Penn State Psychological Clinic
Please register here.

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October 22, 2026
The 2026-2027 Child Study Center’s Lois Bloom Lecture
Daniel S. Shaw, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor
University of Pittsburgh
4:15 p.m., Nittany Lion Inn

News

Chardée Galán and colleagues investigated whether online racial discrimination exposure predicts racism-based traumatic stress symptoms in youth, and whether racial-ethnic identity beliefs moderate the association

Handbook of Research Methods in Developmental Science, edited by Douglas M. Teti, Hobart Harrington Cleveland, and Kelly L. Rulison, now available

Maddie Politte-Corn, Katie Burkhouse and Kristin Buss provide a narrative review integrating the literature on sensitivity to social threat and risk for social anxiety and depression across clinical and developmental perspectives

Research by former graduate students and Strumpf Scholars Kristine Marceau and Chang Liu and colleagues Lijun Li and Jenae Neiderhiser, and others, found a relationship between mothers smoking during pregnancy and comorbid symptoms and externalizing behaviors among children and adolescents

Researchers, including Orfeu M. Buxton, investigated the unique associations between sleep patterns of middle childhood and later developmental outcomes

Student Spotlight

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Tiyobista Maereg

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My ultimate goal is to conduct translational research and connect my work to policy to enact positive social changes.