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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.

Events

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May 2025
Join us at SRCD
for the Penn State reception
Details TBA

News

Researchers including Koraly Pérez-Edgar investigated links between maternal and paternal trait social anxiety and child stress reactions during a social performance task in 4–6-year-old children and their parents

The latest ICIS Baby Blog Researcher Spotlight is by former graduate student Santiago Morales

College course on “The Art and Science of Human Flourishing,” created by Robert Roeser and colleagues, helps students through tough times

Joscelin Rocha-Hidalgo and colleagues recently examined whether a preference for infant-directed speech, rather than exposure to, predicts later language outcomes in infants

Eunkyung Shin and colleagues including Kristin Buss and Koraly Pérez-Edgar examined bidirectional relations among infant positive emotionality, maternal positive emotions, and infant respiratory sinus arrhythmia across the first 18 months of life

Student Spotlight

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Xu (Elsie) Yan

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In the future, I hope to continue applying basic research in cognitive neuroscience to identify specific etiological pathways towards maladaptive developmental outcomes.