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Join us tomorrow afternoon (10/22) for the 2026 Child Study Center Bloom Lecture with Dr. Daniel Shaw! Reception to follow.

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Jenae Neiderhiser and colleagues investigated heritable, prenatal, and environmental pathways of parental stress, finding that birth parent influences and rearing dimensions of parental stress have differential impacts on child development. https://t.co/TX4jReVmq0

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In a Cognitive Development special issue, Dr. Joscelin Rocha-Hidalgo and others examined associations between home language experience and memory generalization, facial emotion processing, and gaze following of infants in the United States. doi:10.1016/j.cogdev.2026.101766

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Join us October 22, 2026 for an afternoon of learning and discussion with Dr. Danny Shaw!

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Joscelin Rocha-Hidalgo and others examined associations between home language experience and memory generalization, facial emotion processing, and gaze following of infants living in the United States. #infant #multilingual #facialemotionprocessing https://t.co/ZnflnBrZlR

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Please join us October 22, 2026.

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Child Study Center's We Are Connected program offers group facilitation, communication, and leadership skills to undergraduates at Penn State's University Park campus. #PennState #PSUUndergrad @PSULiberalArts https://t.co/8Yej5YCasd

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Dr. Carlomagno Panlilio, associate professor of education, was a guest editor for a special issue of Early Childhood Research Quarterly. https://t.co/iDzP5FwwMr

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Join the CMSN as we bring together diverse perspectives to examine what is known—and what needs to change—to better support transition-age youth with foster care histories, Friday, October 23rd. For more, see https://t.co/bRDXw6ZNJJ

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Researchers including Erika Lunkenheimer examined how the warmth and harshness parents show toward their children predict children’s disruptive behavior. https://t.co/4xI1XHE6g1

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Participation in the PROSPER program appears to benefit the next generation. https://t.co/T7aZ71w95F

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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. https://t.co/ZppIvNxOz6

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Zülal İşcanoğlu and colleagues investigated the reliability and validity of the Turkish version of the Inventory of Family Feelings. #family #feelings https://t.co/2YUbSqFmpL

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Sarah Myruski, associate research professor of psychology, and others examined neural systems underlying scaffolded cognitive reappraisal using an fMRI task in children. #emotionalreactivity https://t.co/VSzz1lbEAd

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Researchers including Jenae Neiderhiser investigated the longitudinal evidence for age- and sex-invariant dimensions of #internalizing symptoms from #childhood through #adolescence. https://t.co/bemm9duIya

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Faculty affiliate Kathleen Keller and others investigated hypothalamic functioning of #adolescents with severe #obesity. https://t.co/Mw7s0BIFrb

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Congratulations to the 2026-2027 CSC Small Research Grants for Faculty awardees! https://t.co/TJZ8z7B8Ek

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Researchers including former graduate student Kelley E. Gunther as well as Koraly Pérez-Edgar investigated the relationships between fronto-amygdala connectivity, #executivefunctioning, and #internalizing symptoms during early #adolescence. https://t.co/7NW3gsGf8P

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Newly published by Penn State researchers Jordan Yerger, B.S., Emilia Cárdenas, Ph.D. & Katie Burkhouse, Ph.D., and others: https://t.co/OX8pbKLdBY