Doctoral student Liu Bai and Brian Crosby, Ph.D., and Douglas M. Teti, Ph.D., examined the between- and within-person associations between #maternalsleep patterns and parenting quality across the first 2 years postpartum. Penn State HHD tinyurl.com/ycxptvbx

🧠 What’s happening in the anxious child’s brain? Learn how patterns of heightened vigilance & avoidance in infancy & toddlerhood can become entrenched across childhood, particularly when reinforced by cognitive & emotional processes. EARLY BIRD bit.ly/3YGoEdh

Congratulations to CSC faculty affiliates who received academic promotions effective July 1, 2025. tinyurl.com/2tbrpjss

We’re honored to highlight Dr. Ekjyot K. Saini for Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. Read her profile to learn about why she joined the SRCD Asian Caucus! bit.ly/4jmNnuq

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. Maddie Politte-Corn bridget Koraly Pérez-Edgar 🇵🇷 Penn State Psychology tinyurl.com/2jj2y3v5

Rina D. Eiden, part of the HBCD Child Behavior and Caregiver-Child Interactions Workgroup, and team outlined methodological considerations and decision-making processes for measurement selections on the HBCD Study. Rina Das Eiden #childdevelopment tinyurl.com/mrv6z248

Mark your calendars for the upcoming PACT Webinar: Understanding and Managing Anxiety in Childhood and Adolescence. Tuesday, June 10th, 6-7pm EST. Scan the QR code, or register here: psu.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

We are hiring a FT RA to join the FAMLab @ PSU! The RA will work on studies examining the roles of positive and negative emotion processing alterations in the development of depression in children of depressed mothers. PsychResearchList Purch Psych Jobs psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Staff/job/…

Research led by Karen Bierman, Evan Pugh University Professor of Psychology and HDFS, found the Head Start Research-based, Developmentally Informed (REDI) intervention led to improved #teen behavior and mental health. tinyurl.com/4885ca62 #HeadStart

Tiyobista Maereg, a fifth-year Developmental Psychology grad student, was a guest lecturer for PSYCH 490 –Senior Seminar. Tiyobista’s shared her program of research on identity development as well as how the place-based context shapes identity formation and beliefs.

Congrats to Briana Ermanni, Ph.D., who previously worked in the CAT Lab with Koraly Pérez-Edgar 🇵🇷, for being an incoming #SRCD State Policy Post-Doctoral Fellow in the New Hampshire Bureau of Child Development and Head Start Collaboration. Briana Ermanni tinyurl.com/vrm8uabs

Excited to lead an Association for Child & Adolescent Mental Health webinar on how early temperament, attention, and emotion interact to shape the path to social anxiety. acamh.org/event/social-a… I’ll share research and practical strategies for early intervention to support at-risk children. Join me to learn more!

Rina D. Eiden was part of an exploratory study that looked at the effects of Play With Me, an at-home play-based parenting intervention, on weight outcomes in middle childhood. Rina Das Eiden tinyurl.com/3bhy3ewp

Congratulations to my student, Joana Amankwaa, @usu_hdfs USU CEHS for winning the outstanding poster award from the Behavior Genetics Association #BGA2025 #earlycareer

Congratulations to faculty affiliate Danielle Downs on being named a 2025 fellow of the National Academy of Kinesiology. #kinesiology Penn State SSRI tinyurl.com/yetb6js4

Check out this article: Penn State Psychologist Dr. Pamela Cole shares her cancer journey and discusses the importance of life-saving federal funding for research triblive.com/opinion/pamela…

Help us congratulate Penn State Psychology graduate student Marissa Lyttle for earning a STAR award for her excellence in Teaching and Research

Help us celebrate and congratulate the Penn State Psychology graduate recipients of the Clinical Scientist Practitioner Award: Daniel Spina and Morgan Mannweiler

Koraly Pérez-Edgar, McCourtney Professor of Child Studies and Professor of Psychology, will be a keynote speaker at the 2025 Big Ten Neuroscience Annual Meeting held at Penn State July 21 and 22. Koraly Pérez-Edgar 🇵🇷 #neuroscience tinyurl.com/mvuusrmp

Researchers including Orfeu M. Buxton studied how adverse childhood experiences and #racialidentification influence body mass trajectories from adolescence to adulthood. #ACEs #BMI Biobehavioral Health tinyurl.com/4yarp4xm