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CSC Child Study Center

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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.

Events

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Save the date!
January 14, 2022
“Leveraging Systems to Improve and Expand Child Sexual Abuse Prevention”
8:30 a.m. – Noon, Foster Auditorium
Registration required

Save the date!
April 14, 2022
“White Racial Learning in Childhood and Adolescence”
4:15 p.m., 110 Henderson Bldg./Edna Bennett Pierce Living Center
Registration information: TBA

News

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Penn State and Discovery Space partnership provides opportunity to implement Dr. Karen Bierman’s Bear Buildz program, a program being developed by Penn State researchers to “empower parents and engage preschool-age children in STEM learning.”
Recent work by K. Ashana Ratcliff, Lauren C. Vazquez, Erika S. Lunkenheimer, and Pamela M. Cole examined age-related changes in strategy use for emotion regulation among young children
Congratulations to Paul Morgan, Harry & Marion Eberly Faculty Fellow, Professor of Education, and CSC faculty affiliate, on being inducted as an American Educational Research Association Fellow
New publication from postdoctoral fellow Brendan Ostlund with Drs. Koraly Pérez-Edgar and Rina Das Eiden expands knowledge of intergenerational transmission of psychopathology risk
Research by grad student Kelley E. Gunther and colleagues found that kindergartners who showed low initial orienting towards and continued avoidance of a stranger, as measured using eye-tracking, had a greater parental report of internalizing behaviors.

Student Spotlight

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Joonyoung Park

Joonyoung Park (’14)

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As an international student, in addition to learning research skills, working in the Context and Development Lab has helped me improve my communication skills as well as helped my adjustment to studying abroad.