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Chardée Galán and colleagues investigated whether online racial discrimination exposure predicts racism-based traumatic stress symptoms in youth, and whether racial-ethnic identity beliefs moderate the association. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Handbook of Research Methods in Developmental Science, edited by Douglas M. Teti, Hobart Harrington Cleveland, and Kelly L. Rulison, now available. www.wiley.com/en-us/Handbo...

Maddie Politte-Corn, Katie Burkhouse and Kristin Buss provide a narrative review integrating the literature on sensitivity to social threat and risk for social anxiety and depression across clinical and developmental perspectives. tinyurl.com/a4ksnx29

Research by former graduate students Kristine Marceau and Chang Liu and colleagues Lijun Li and Jenae Neiderhiser et al., found a relationship between mothers smoking during pregnancy and comorbid symptoms and externalizing behaviors among children and adolescents. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Researchers, including Orfeu M. Buxton, investigated the unique associations between sleep patterns of middle childhood and later developmental outcomes. tinyurl.com/mujkucuh

Emilia F. Cárdenas and colleagues investigated main effects and interactions of reward processing and birth-related stressors on postpartum internalizing symptoms. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Don't miss the Open Scholarship Boot Camp next week! www.psu.edu/news/univers...

Congratulations to Katherine All, a third-year graduate student in Penn State's Child Clinical Psychology doctoral program and recipient of a 2026 Strumpf Scholar Award! Read more here: csc.la.psu.edu/.../strumpf....

Congratulations to Beck Scheinberg, a doctoral student in Penn State's Child Clinical Psychology program and recipient of a 2026 Irene E. Harms Graduate Scholarship Award! Read more here: csc.la.psu.edu/.../the-iren...

Congratulations to Metzli Lombera, a graduate student in Penn State's Child Clinical Psychology doctoral program and recipient of a 2026 Strumpf Scholar Award! Read more here: csc.la.psu.edu/.../stru.../...

Sun, Li, Chow, and Lunkenheimer (2026) examined the development of mothers' and preschoolers' self-regulation and coregulation of regulatory physiology from ages 3 to 4, and how harsh parenting impacted these processes. academic.oup.com/chidev/advan...

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Faculty affiliate Janette Watkins and colleagues investigated the mechanisms underlying body dissatisfaction in young adults. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Working in Erika Lunkenheimer’s Parent-Child Dynamics Lab helped shape Jui Baliga’s academic path. www.psu.edu/news/liberal...

We are two days away from our Speaker Series event with Vanessa LoBue, Ph.D. Visit our Speaker Series page to learn more: csc.la.psu.edu/speaker.../2...

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Faculty affiliate Christian M. Connell and colleagues examined the use of research evidence in U.S. state child abuse and neglect policies from 2019-2024. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Penn State researchers investigated how routines and harsh parenting may affect children’s transition to school. www.psu.edu/news/health-...

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Penn State researchers including Mark Feinberg recently examined the longitudinal connections between early observed #parenting and #coparenting relationship quality and children’s later cardiometabolic health outcomes. www.psu.edu/news/health-...

The next Child Study Center Speaker Series event is in two weeks!

New research by Rina D. Eiden and colleagues examined developmental pathways from prenatal tobacco exposure or prenatal tobacco and cannabis co-exposure to early school age externalizing problems. link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...

Child Study Center’s Innovation Hub Symposium brought together Penn State faculty, community partners, practitioners, and others to learn more about community-engaged research and how to harness this approach to improve the lives of diverse children, youth, and families. www.psu.edu/news/social-...

Congratulations to Katie Burkhouse, associate professor of psychology and CSC faculty affiliate, on receiving a Dr. Frances Keesler Graham Early Career Professorship by the Social Science Research Institute. www.psu.edu/news/social-...

Save the date for the next Child Study Center Speaker Series event with psychology Professor Vanessa LoBue!

Congratulations to Srushti Untawale for receiving an American Psychological Foundation grant! Learn more here: csc.la.psu.edu/news/congrat...

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Newly published research by Janet A. Welsh, Karen L. Bierman, and colleagues suggests the Research-based, Developmentally Informed (REDI) program can be adapted for use in child-care centers and boost growth in multiple areas of child school readiness. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New publication by Hlutkowsky, Yan, Shapiro, Feldman, and Huang-Pollock (2026): A Diffusion Model Analysis of Task Set Inertia and Task Set Reconfiguration in ADHD. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Please help us welcome Robert Nix, Ph.D., one week from today at the Child Study Center Speaker Series.

Kathleen Keller and colleagues investigated the potential for food properties to moderate the influence of variety on intake with children. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Researchers including Rina D. Eiden explored how early environmental patterns shape stress regulation in adolescents with a history of prenatal cocaine exposure. academic.oup.com/chidev/artic...

Applications for the two-year pre-doctoral PAMT (Prevention and Methodology Training) NIDA T32 Training fellowships are open. Program begins on July 1 and deadline is March 6 at 5pm. More Information ➡️

Katie Burkhouse and team are the first to examine how a variety of self-reported emotion regulation styles may interact with maternal major depressive disorder history to predict an EEG marker of emotional reactivity among youth. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Congratulations to faculty affiliate David Lee on being named a Penn State distinguished professor. www.psu.edu/news/academi...

Findings from researchers including Karen Bierman suggest the Fast Track intervention for children may help break the intergenerational transmission of violence. acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

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Ulziimaa Chimed-Ochir, Christian Connell, and others investigated young children’s posttraumatic stress symptom improvement during Attachment, Regulation and Competency (ARC) treatment. www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Researchers including Orfeu Buxton characterized 24-hour movement behaviors among an ethnoracially and socioeconomically diverse sample of US adolescents to identify potential gaps and opportunities for intervention. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Karla Armendariz and Krista Wilkinson studied the perspectives of Hispanic mothers to learn how cultural values and linguistic diversity shape family engagement with augmentative and alternative communication services and system design. www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Research by Chardée Galán and colleagues is among the first to demonstrate that racism-related vigilance is a key factor in linking racial #discrimination to increased #depression and #anxiety among minoritized youth at the daily level. #racism psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

Please join us March 19th for the Child Study Center's Speaker Series with Robert Nix, Ph.D.

New research by Brown, Lunkenheimer, Girod, et al. (2025), published in Developmental Psychobiology, may inform the promotion of adaptive #caregiving behaviors and #infant development in interventions with high-risk families. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Katie Burkhouse and colleagues examined the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary effectiveness of a chat-based version of Crisis Response Planning (CRP) for adolescents with suicidal ideation. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Faculty affiliate Christian M. Connell and colleagues tested the usefulness of the Bayesian spatio-temporal clustering approach when investigating maternal prescription opioid misuse trend. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Research by Ivanova, Eiden, Seay, Perry & Linden-Carmichael examined the codevelopment of #internalizing and #externalizing disorders and variations in their codevelopment due to prenatal cocaine exposure and gender. link.springer.com/article/10.1...