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Effects of apple form on satiety in 4–6 year-old children: possible evidence of sex differences Research in adults has shown that food form (e.g., liquid, semi-solid, solid) influences satiety, even when energy and energy density are matched. How…

Several CSC faculty affiliates recently contributed to research examining the influence of food form on children’s subsequent meal intake. @katkellerlab.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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The Infant Behavior Questionnaire Factor Structure Varies With Sample Characteristics The Infant Behavior Questionnaire (IBQ) has been widely used to assess infant temperament traits, though there is limited empirical support for the recommended three-factor structure. The present stu...

New work by Anna M. Zhou, Koraly Pérez-Edgar, Vanessa LoBue, and Kristin A. Buss suggests the Infant Behavior Questionnaire factor structure varies with sample characteristics. @annamzhou.bsky.social @drkoraly.bsky.social @kabuss.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Assistant or Associate Professor, Child Clinical Psychology, Department of Psychology APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...

Penn State is recruiting an Assistant/Associate Professor to join the Child Clinical program. psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Ac...

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Dawn P. Witherspoon and others conducted a pilot study examining how Latine adolescents’ ethnic-racial identity was shaped by parents’ gender role socialization beliefs and perceptions of neighborhood connectedness and problems. www.mdpi.com/2076-328X/15...

$3.6M NIH grant to study brain patterns in children with ADHD, behavior problems | Penn State University A team, led by researchers at Penn State, received a $3.6 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to study brain patterns in children with ADHD and serious behavior problems in orde...

CSC faculty affiliates part of team awarded $3.6M NIH grant to study brain patterns in children with #ADHD. www.psu.edu/news/researc...

How can early-emerging temperament, particularly behavioral inhibition, influence children’s long-term social & emotional development?

Dr Koraly on 25 Sept to explore how early traits shape the path to #Anxiety and what can we do about it. https://t.co/XfMbNUdT2G https://t.co/bNm7PNxMFz

Adolescent and Young Adult Social Media Food Marketing Exposure: Influence of Eating Behavior Traits on Brand Recall, Craving, and Purchase The pervasive marketing of energy-dense food and beverages across many social media platforms continually targets and appeals to young consumers. This…

Research suggests high rates of exposure to digital food and beverage marketing on social media can impact #adolescent and young adult behavior. @katkellerlab.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Advertising flyer for the Child Study Center's 2025 Lois Bloom Lecture with Adriana Umana-Taylor, Ph.D.

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Assistant or Associate Professor, Child Clinical Psychology, Department of Psychology APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...

The Dept of Psychology at Penn State, University Park, invites applications for a full-time tenure-track position, at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor of Child Clinical Psychology. The position will start Fall 2026. For details, please see: tinyurl.com/2vdpkfps

When the World Pivots: Changes in Infant Negative Affect Trajectories Following the Onset of the COVID‐19 Pandemic Research on the COVID-19 pandemic's effect on infant emotional development has produced mixed results, often limited by methodological constraints, such as not having access to data prior to and afte...

New manuscript by Joscelin Rocha-Hildalgo, Brendan Ostlund, Vanessa LoBue, Kristin Buss, and Koraly Pérez-Edgar: When the World Pivots: Changes in Infant Negative Affect Trajectories Following the Onset of the #COVID-19 Pandemic. @joscelinrocha.com @drkoraly.bsky.social tinyurl.com/568s8uje

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Penn State is recruiting an Assistant/Associate Professor to join the Child Clinical program. It's a fantastic department to work in! More info below. Please share!
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Evaluating joint models of psychopathology and personality items in children Taxonomic models of psychopathology and personality share striking similarities, but lines of research are often conducted independently. Integrating …

Graduate student Katherine All and Cynthia Huang-Pollock, Ph.D., examined the joint structure of #psychopathology and #personality in #children. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Penn State graduate Joonyoung Park, Dawn Witherspoon, Ph.D., and colleague explored links between neighborhood characteristics, parental monitoring, and deviance among Black and Latinx #adolescents in new destination neighborhoods. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Intraindividual Variability in Adolescent Impulsivity: The Predictive Role of Family and Peer Relationships - Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology Adolescent impulsivity is a robust risk factor for adolescent problem behaviors. Historically, impulsivity has been conceptualized as a trait characteristic; however, recent work conducted with adult ...

Faculty affiliate Gregory Fosco and colleagues recently examined adolescent risk for impulsivity. @familypowerlab.bsky.social
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I had a fantastic time sitting down again with Dr. Aliza Pressman, and her Raising Good Humans Podcast. This time we focused on the role temperament can play in shaping the parent-child relationship.

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Mindfulness techniques help birthing parents manage stress of parenthood | Penn State University Mindfulness-based birthing classes helped both child-bearers and their partners manage the stress of parenthood better than traditional community-based birthing classes, according to a research team a...

Mindfulness-based birthing classes help manage the #stress of #parenthood, according to lead author Heidemarie Laurent. #mindfulness #birthingclass www.psu.edu/news/health-...

Postdoctoral Research Scholar, The Cognition, Affect, and Temperament Lab, College of the Liberal Arts, Department of Psychology-2 APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...

Open post-doc position!

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Lisa Gatzke-Kopp named head of human development and family studies | Penn State University Lisa Gatzke-Kopp has been named head of the Penn State Department of Human Development and Family Studies. She joined the College of Health and Human Development in 2007 as an assistant professor and ...

Lisa Gatzke-Kopp, professor of human development and family studies and faculty affiliate of the Child Study Center, has been named head of the Department of Human Development and Family Studies. www.psu.edu/news/health-...

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Research conducted in Turkey by Zülal İşcanoğlu and others emphasizes the need for targeted interventions to address the unique challenges of incarcerated mothers co-residing with their toddlers. @iscanogluz.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Parent‐Reported Toddler Dysregulation and Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia Predict Trajectories of Childhood Externalizing Behaviors Externalizing behaviors (e.g., aggression, oppositionality, conduct problems) typically peak then decrease across early childhood (ages 2–5). However, some children continue to exhibit elevated level...

Recent work by Michelle Ramos, Anna Zhou, and Kristin Buss examined how multiple dimensions of #dysregulation throughout #toddlerhood may predict trajectories of #externalizingbehavior in early childhood. @annamzhou.bsky.social @kabuss.bsky.social tinyurl.com/bdzkmyww

A Moderated Mediation Model to Predict Adolescent Resistance to Peer Influence: Evidence From an Adoption Study Introduction Adolescents are particularly susceptible to peer influence and at higher risk of engaging in problematic behaviors through peer interactions, but also vary in the extent to which they a...

Research by former graduate student Kristine Marceau, Jenae Neiderhiser, and colleagues examined #adolescent resistance to #peerinfluence. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

<em>Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry</em> | ACAMH Pediatric Journal | Wiley Online Library Background We examined whether mother-preschooler respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) synchrony and self-regulation, as potential biological antecedents of developmental psychopathology, interacted t...

Research from Longfeng Li, Sara Such, and Erika Lunkenheimer looked at how parent-child RSA synchrony can shape developmental psychopathology over time. #developmentalpsychopathology tinyurl.com/uymnk3jr

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Research by Maddie Politte-Corn, Kristin Buss, and colleagues examined the associations between autonomic and behavioral indices of emotional reactivity and internalizing symptoms in middle childhood. @kabuss.bsky.social tinyurl.com/46bf3yu9

Crossover Effects of PROSPER on Young Adult Suicide Risk: the Role of Adolescent Belongingness to Family and School - Prevention Science Universal and selective preventive interventions targeting youth behavioral problems have shown crossover effects on suicide risk, the second leading cause of death among youth. However, the mechanism...

Faculty affiliates Greg Fosco, Mark Feinberg, and colleagues studied the crossover effects of PROSPER on young adult #suicide risk. @prcpennstate.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Behaviorally inhibited preschoolers experience stronger connectivity among social-related neural regions while interacting with a stranger Social behavioral inhibition (BI), or wariness in response to unfamiliar social stimuli, is a temperament trait that, when present in preschool-age ch…

Koraly Pérez-Edgar and colleagues investigated neural functioning associated with behavioral inhibition during the preschool years. @drkoraly.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...