Emotion, Development, Environment & Neurogenetics (EDEN) Lab | PI: Dr. Rebecca Waller @upennedenlab

Joined January 2023
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Dr. Rebecca Waller at the 2025 Society for Research in Child Development conference! #SRCD2025
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20 Nov 2024
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!🌟✨
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18 Sep 2024
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! 💛❤️
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11 Sep 2024
Coffee & donut break yesterday! ☕️🍩So lovely to catch up with everyone over some midday sweet treats 🩷🧡🤎 #edenrunsondunkin
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16 Aug 2024
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.
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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 @UCBerkeley and @emilyrperkins will address a crucial diversity gap in neuro research!
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26 Jul 2024
A new theoretical paper from the EDEN Lab (@emilyrperkins), written w/ collaborators both near (@DrexelUniv) & far (@UniofOxford @RWTH), considers the role, promise, & possible consequences of biology in advancing parent interventions for child aggression doi.org/10.1016/j.avb.2024.1…
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12 Jul 2024
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🌺
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21 Jun 2024
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 @CARautism @PennMedicine link.springer.com/article/10…📚
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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 @emilyrperkins @kristinmurtha1 @broussarda98
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31 May 2024
Congratulations to @emilyrperkins 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/3622… What an incredible achievement! 👏
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22 May 2024
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 🥳🎓
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15 May 2024
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💙
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19 Apr 2024
New insights into what motivates child prosociality come from Dr. Yael Paz's @YaelPa144 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…
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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 🎉🏆👏 @NSF #teamscience
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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
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25 Mar 2024
Happy (belated) Spring from the EDEN Lab! Here's to a season of growth, new beginnings and, of course, scientific discovery! 🪻🧬🌸 #teamscience
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14 Mar 2024
Testing the Sensitivity to Threat and Affiliative Reward (STAR) model among pre-adolescents, Dr. Yael Paz @YaelPa144 shows that variation in threat sensitivity & affiliation differentially relates to various forms of psychopathology, including CU traits: acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.co…
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Last week, we were lucky enough to be visited our lovely @base_lab_bu 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 🤩
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18 Jan 2024
Hot off the press! Congrats to undergrad, Sydney Sun, along with our @ChildrensPhila and @UofPenn 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/s41598-0…
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