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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!
August 20, 2025
The Ninth Annual Central PA Workshop on Evidence-Based Mental Health Services
“Breaking the Silence: Strategies for Youth Suicide Prevention”
8:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m., Memorial Lounge, Pasquerilla Spiritual Center

Save the date!
October 2, 2025
The 2025-2026 Child Study Center’s Lois Bloom Lecture
Adriana Janette Umana-Taylor, Ph.D.
Harvard Graduate School of Education
4:15 p.m., Nittany Lion Inn

News

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Rina D. Eiden, part of the HEALthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Child Behavior and Caregiver-Child Interactions Workgroup, and team outlined methodological considerations and decision-making process for measurement selections on the HBCD Study
Research by Politte-Corn, Myruski, Cahill, Pérez-Edgar & Buss (2025): Disentangling the Role of Different Resting-State Neural Markers of Adolescent Behavioral Inhibition and Social Anxiety
Richard “Dick” Hayes, Penn State class of 1968 (political science) and financial supporter of the CSC, received the Chaiken Leadership Award at the 2025 Liberal Arts alumni awards ceremony
Congratulations to CSC faculty affiliates who received academic promotions effective July 1, 2025
New publication by doctoral student Liu Bai and Brian Crosby, Ph.D., and Douglas M. Teti, Ph.D., examined the between- and within-person associations between maternal sleep patterns and parenting quality across the first 2 years postpartum, with a focus on the moderating role of coparenting quality

Student Spotlight

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Maddie Skjefstad (’22)

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I love working with kids, which prompted me to pursue being a research assistant in Dr. Bierman’s lab. She does really amazing work on interventions for children and it has been amazing to be part of it.