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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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Save the date!
March 19, 2026
Child Study Center Speaker Series
Robert Nix, Ph.D.
Audrey Rothermel Bascom Professor
Professor of Human Development & Family Studies
University of Wisconsin-Madison
4:00 p.m., Memorial Lounge, Pasquerilla Spiritual Center

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April 23, 2026
Child Study Center Speaker Series
Vanessa LoBue, Ph.D.
Professor, School of Arts and Sciences
Rutgers University
4:00 p.m., Memorial Lounge, Pasquerilla Spiritual Center

 

News

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New publication by Hlutkowsky, Yan, Shapiro, Feldman, and Huang-Pollock (2026): A Diffusion Model Analysis of Task Set Inertia and Task Set Reconfiguration in ADHD
Faculty affiliate Janette M. Watkins and colleagues examined associations between meeting physical activity guidelines and sleep duration among youth with disabilities
Kathleen Keller and colleagues investigated the potential for food properties to moderate the influence of variety on intake with children
Researchers including Rina D. Eiden explored how early environmental patterns shape stress regulation in adolescents with a history of prenatal cocaine exposure
Katie Burkhouse and team are the first to examine how a variety of self-reported emotion regulation styles may interact with maternal major depressive disorder history to predict an EEG marker of emotional reactivity among youth

Student Spotlight

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Amanda Ramos

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The prenatal environment plays a pivotal role in child development and needs to be better incorporated in broader conceptualizations of developmental etiology.