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

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October 23, 2026
2026 Child Maltreatment Solutions Network Conference
Co-Sponsored by the CSC
8:30 a.m., Nittany Lion Inn

News

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Katie L. Burkhouse and Joan L. Luby discuss the importance of considering age-related periods when certain neurobehavioral systems are especially malleable and responsive to intervention in the prevention of youth psychopathology
Zülal İşcanoğlu and colleagues investigated the reliability and validity of the Turkish version of the Inventory of Family Feelings
Sarah Myruski, associate research professor of psychology, and others examined neural systems underlying scaffolded cognitive reappraisal using an fMRI task in children
Researchers including Jenae Neiderhiser investigated the longitudinal evidence for age- and sex-invariant dimensions of internalizing symptoms from childhood through adolescence
Faculty affiliate Kathleen Keller and others investigated hypothalamic functioning of adolescents with severe obesity

Student Spotlight

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Erin (Karen) Guo (’23)

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I want to contribute to the field of sleep research by expanding our understanding of how parental behaviors influence infant sleep and their potential impact on an infant’s future development and health.