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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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News

Prize essay by former Penn State developmental psychology graduate student Jason Griffin, Ph.D.: Eyes are Windows to the Brain: Capturing Eye Movements to Better Understand Face Processing in Autism

Faculty affiliate Steffany Fredman and colleagues received a $3 million grant to expand their pilot study aimed at PTSD recovery for active-duty personnel and veterans

Former CSC Strumpf Scholar Alicia Vallorani and CSC faculty affiliates Kristin Buss, Koraly Pérez-Edgar, and colleagues examined individual differences in affective attention trajectories in infancy and relations with competence and social reticence at 24 months

Rick Sokolov, a 1971 Penn State Psychology graduate and financial contributor to the CSC, elected vice chair of the Penn State Board of Trustees

Congratulations to CSC faculty affiliate Lisa Gatzke-Kopp on being named president-elect of the Society for Psychophysiological Research

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.