Hot off the press! Congrats to undergrad, Sydney Sun, along with our Children's Hospital and U of Penn collaborators, for their paper on childhood conduct problems and parent-child talk during social and cognitive-based tasks. Click the link to read! ✨ nature.com/articles/s4159…

Last week, we were lucky enough to be visited our lovely BASE Lab collaborators, who were in town for #easternpsychologicalassociation conference! Was so fun for so many members of our teams to finally meet in person and catch up on all things science 🤩

Testing the Sensitivity to Threat and Affiliative Reward (STAR) model among pre-adolescents, Dr. Yael Paz Yael Paz shows that variation in threat sensitivity & affiliation differentially relates to various forms of psychopathology, including CU traits: acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jc…

Happy (belated) Spring from the EDEN Lab! Here's to a season of growth, new beginnings and, of course, scientific discovery! 🪻🧬🌸 #teamscience

The EDEN Lab is hiring undergraduate Research Assistants for Summer 2024! 🌞 Spread the news and join us in contributing to cutting-edge developmental psychology research ! #ResearchAssistant #JoinOurTeam

A huge congrats to our incredible grad student, Alexis Broussard, for being awarded the prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Award! We are so proud and honored to have you as part of our lab 🎉🏆👏 U.S. National Science Foundation #teamscience

New insights into what motivates child prosociality come from Dr. Yael Paz's Yael Paz latest paper, with callous-unemotional traits in 5–6-year-old children linked to poorer recognition of emotional need and greater denial of help for others link.springer.com/article/10.100…

HUGE congrats to our amazing Clinical Psych graduate student, Sam Perlstein, for passing her dissertation defense! We are so proud of the work she has done, and can’t wait to see what her future holds as an intern at her (first choice!) Clinical Psych program at Duke University💙

It's official! Our incredible EDEN Lab seniors, Alasia Williams, Chinyelu Ojukwu, and Sydney Sun, have graduated and we couldn't be more proud! We're so grateful for everything they've contributed to the lab and we can't wait to see what comes next! #UPennClassof2024 🥳🎓

Congratulations to Emily Perkins for winning the SSSP Postdoc award for her 2022 paper assessing general vs specific risk factors in the development of psychopathology in adolescence pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36222627/ What an incredible achievement! 👏

The EDEN Lab team at the 10th biennial meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy in Cyprus! What an incredible event in the most beautiful location! 🇨🇾💚🧡#SSSP #teamscience #Cyprus Emily Perkins kristinmurtha1 Alexis Broussard

New insights into the link between parent-child conversational patterns and child CU traits come from the EDEN lab's most recent paper published with our wonderful CHOP collaborators, Dr. Julia Parish-Morris & Dr. John Harrington Center for Autism Research - CHOP Penn Medicine link.springer.com/article/10.100…📚

Meet some of the EDEN Lab's new summer Research Assistants! We're so lucky to have these awesome new people on our team😊Check out our website upennedenlab.com/our-team/ to learn more about each of the newest members🌺

A new theoretical paper from the EDEN Lab (Emily Perkins), written w/ collaborators both near (Drexel University) & far (University of Oxford RWTH Aachen), considers the role, promise, & possible consequences of biology in advancing parent interventions for child aggression doi.org/10.1016/j.avb.…

Andrew Dowling, one of our awesome RAs, with his (non-alc) shirley temple on the house for naming the DEER (Diversifying Emotion & EEG Research) 🦌study! This project, run by Keanan Joyner of UC Berkeley and Emily Perkins will address a crucial diversity gap in neuro research!

Congratulations to Helena Saven (C' 26) for her incredible work this summer as a PennMindCORE summer research fellow! 🧠🌅Helena worked under Dr. Waller to look at the effects of ACEs on adult's responses to videos of physical touch.

Coffee & donut break yesterday! ☕️🍩So lovely to catch up with everyone over some midday sweet treats 🩷🧡🤎 #edenrunsondunkin

Welcome to EDEN, María Álvarez Voces! María is a visiting doctoral student from the UNDERISK group at the University of Santiago de Compostela 🇪🇸 who studies conduct disorders in females. We are so excited to have her join the team for the next few weeks! 💛❤️

A huge congrats to EDEN Lab seniors, Sadie Kilar and Miranda Cochran, for their presentation at the 58th annual convention for the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) in Philly last week!🌟✨

Dr. Rebecca Waller at the 2025 Society for Research in Child Development conference! #SRCD2025