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August 13, 2026
Pictured are our incredible MindCORE summer fellows at their final poster presentations and talks. Mariia Shvedova (top) from Hunter College, Logan Speight (bottom left) from Spelman College, and Renee Liu…
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July 1, 2026
Kristin Murtha, one of the EDEN Lab's Clinical Psychology PhD students, recently presented at the 2026 Organization for Human Brain Mapping meeting in Bordeaux, France. Kristin's presentation investigated neuroanatomical subtypes…
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June 18, 2026
Dr. Rebecca Waller presented at the 2026 Life History Research Society Conference in Oslo on computational phenotyping of dyadic affiliation using preliminary PEAR study data, investigating specific associations with callous-unemotional…
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June 11, 2026
Huge congratulations to our EDEN Lab seniors, Ally Muller, Helena Saven, Andrew Dowling, Lulia Tesfamariam, Delaney Smith, and Sarah Yi, for graduating!! Ally was accepted into Temple University Lewis Katz School…
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June 1, 2026
EDEN Lab members, Dr. Rebecca Waller, Dr. Yael Paz, Alexis Broussard, Emily Volbert, Helena Saven (& friends!) at the 2026 Scientific Study of Psychopathy Conference held in Dallas, TX.
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May 6, 2026
A huge congratulations to EDEN Lab seniors, Andrew Dowling and Delaney Smith, for completing their Honors Psychology theses under the mentorship of Dr. Waller and presenting their incredible work! Both…
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March 2, 2026
In a recently published paper from Psychological Medicine led by EDEN Lab post-doc, Yael Paz, data from the Family Life Project was analyzed using machine learning to identify which measures…
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January 21, 2026
In December, recent research from the EDEN Lab on young children's preference for anthropomorphic features was highlighted in Omnia, the University of Pennsylvania's alumni magazine. Findings from this growing body…
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January 17, 2026
In this recently published journal article led by an EDEN Lab visiting scholar (Álvarez-Voces, 2026) a novel network analysis approach was applied to two large mixed-gender samples from the US…
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December 17, 2025
Happy Holidays from the EDEN Lab!
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December 15, 2025
EDEN Lab's PI, Dr. Rebecca Waller presented at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia's (CHOP) Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Grand Rounds on a talk titled, "A Multimodal…
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October 9, 2025
Click the link to listen to the EDEN Lab's PI, Dr. Rebecca Waller chat with the University of Pennsylvania's new Dean of Arts and Sciences, Dr. Mark Trodden, about her…
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December 13, 2024
Happy holiday season from the EDEN Lab! This year's holiday party was decked with pizza, presents, and the coziest lab merch!
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November 20, 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)! Sadie…
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August 16, 2024
Congratulations to Helena Saven (C' 26) for her incredible work this summer during her time as a MindCORE summer research fellow! Over the past 9 weeks, Helena worked under Dr.…
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July 26, 2024
A new theoretical paper from the EDEN Lab, written with collaborators both near and far, considers the role, promise, and possible consequences of incorporating biology into the advancement of parenting…
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July 12, 2024
Meet some of the newest EDEN Lab summer Research Assistants! We are so lucky to have so many amazing new people on our team, assisting with a variety of ongoing…
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June 21, 2024
New insights into the relationship between parent-child language and child callous-unemotional traits come from our latest paper from the EDEN lab and our wonderful collaborators, Dr. Julia Parish-Morris and Dr.…
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June 11, 2024
This year's Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy Study (SSSP) in Paphos, Cyprus was one for the books! What an amazing event full of incredible talks from our EDEN…
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June 7, 2024
Congratulations to our wonderful postdoc, Emily Perkins, for winning the Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy (SSSP) Postdoc Paper Award for her paper titled, “Assessing general versus specific liability…
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May 22, 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 of how far they’ve come! We’re so grateful…
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May 15, 2024
A huge congratulations to our amazing Clinical Psychology graduate student, Sam Perlstein, for passing her dissertation defense last week!! We are so incredibly proud of all the work she has…
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April 8, 2024
Congratulations to Alexis Broussard, one of our incredible Clinical Psychology graduate students, for receiving the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Award! This prestigious program supports outstanding graduate students pursuing…
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March 14, 2024
A new paper led by Dr. Yael Paz, one of our incredible post-docs at the EDEN Lab, examines the temperamental context in which different psychopathologies emerge, according to the prediction…
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January 23, 2024
Congrats to our senior undergrad RA, Sydney Sun, for publishing the latest paper she led on childhood conduct problems and parent-child talk during social and cognitive-based tasks. Featuring collaborators from…
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December 6, 2023
When science worlds collide! Our Senior Research Coordinator at the EDEN Lab, Yuheiry Rodriguez, recently visited our collaborators at Boston University’s BASE lab to run a PEAR visit! Yuheiry was…
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October 9, 2023
Congrats to our wonderful PI, Dr. Rebecca Waller, for her talk: “What Can Callous-Unemotional Traits in Early Childhood Tell Us About Preventing and Treating Antisocial Behavior Across the Lifespan?” given…
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September 20, 2023
A huge congrats to our undergraduate Penn Scholars and EDEN Lab members, Helena Saven, Lulia Tesfamariam, and Sydney Sun for their amazing work and presentations given at the UPenn Fall…
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September 18, 2023
Congratulations to Sydney Sun, senior undergraduate at the EDEN Lab, for the incredible work she has done for her study on the relationship between emotion words and child disruptive behavior…
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September 15, 2023
Congratulations to Helena Saven and Lulia Tesfamariam, two of our wonderful research assistants at the EDEN Lab, for the amazing work they have done using hypothesized data from the Promoting…
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September 12, 2023
Alexis graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2020 with a B.A. in psychology. Among the first few undergraduates to join the EDEN Lab team, she completed her honors thesis under…
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September 8, 2023
Congrats to recent graduate, Caitlyn Kim, for winning the John P. Sabini Award for the study of Emotion, Character and Responsibility in her senior year. This award is given to…
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September 8, 2023
Miranda is a junior at the University of Pennsylvania from Danville, Virginia. She is studying Psychology and Criminology with minors in Neuroscience and Law & Society. She plans to attend…
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July 24, 2023
I received my B.S. in Psychology with Honors and a certificate in the Conceptual Foundations of Medicine from the University of Pittsburgh in 2023. Throughout my undergraduate career, I worked…
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July 5, 2023
In 2023, I graduated with honors from Bryn Mawr College, earning a B.A. in Psychology and a minor in Neuroscience. My research interests include: the effect of early life trauma…
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April 16, 2023
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Congratulations to graduate student, Samantha Perlstein, on the publication of her paper on treatment of childhood disruptive behavior disorders and callous-unemotional traits! In this paper, authors found that parent training,…
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April 16, 2023
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Congratulations to our Director, Dr. Rebecca Waller, on the publication of a paper examining the association between state-level access to reproductive care and suicide rates among birthing individuals of reproductive…
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April 16, 2023
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Congratulations to Sydney Sun, our Research Assistant, for receiving the Honorable Mention Award for Best Flash Talk at the Society for Affective Science Conference! On March 31st, Sydney presented a…
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December 8, 2022
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Congratulations to EDEN Lab Research Coordinator, Yuheiry Rodriguez, on her Silver Staff Recognition Award from the University of Pennsylvania's School of Arts & Sciences. This award is given to individual…
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October 4, 2022
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Congrats to senior undergraduate, Grace Daley, for winning the John P. Sabini Award for the study of Emotion, Character and Responsibility. This award is given to a psychology major with…
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October 4, 2022
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Dr. Waller received the Jevon S. Newman Early Career Award from the Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy (SSSP), presented last week at the biennial conference for the society.…
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October 4, 2022
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Sam Perlstein won one of four Blitz talk awards at the 2022 conference for the Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy (SSSP).[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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October 4, 2022
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Ayomide Popoola joined the lab! She received a BSc in Life Sciences and Minor in Psychology from McMaster University in 2022. She joins the EDEN Lab as a Research Specialist,…
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October 4, 2022
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Michaela Flum joined the lab! Michaela Flum is a 2022 graduate of Columbia University's Quantitative Social Sciences Master's program, and a 2021 graduate of Barnard College of Columbia University. Her…
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October 4, 2022
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Sherry Zhang joined the lab! She graduated from Purdue University with a B.Sc. in Brain and Behavioral Sciences. She completed her senior honors thesis in Dr. Bridgette Kelleher's Neurodevelopmental Family…
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October 4, 2022
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]EDEN Lab featured by Penn Gazette. Thank you for featuring our work exploring how the pandemic has impacted the perinatal period and the experience of pregnant and birthing individuals, as…
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October 4, 2022
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]New work from Dr. Rista Plate, a MindCORE postdoctoral fellow. We show that friendly vs. mean laughter is easily distinguishable, and that people want to join in more with friendly…
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October 4, 2022
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]See our new work in Health Affairs, led by Dr. Sara Kornfield, showing how different risk and resilience factors, including worries and stress from the pandemic, are related to risk…
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October 4, 2022
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Profile of our fabulous research coordinator, Yuheiry Rodriguez, published as part of an alumni focus by Temple University. Nothing happens in the EDEN Lab without Yuheiry’s work, dedication, and calmness![/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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October 4, 2022
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]New paper published on CU traits and physiology. Congrats to super star graduate student, Samantha Perlstein, for her new paper out in Research on Child & Adolescent Psychopathology. Youth high…
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October 4, 2022
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Congrats to senior undergraduate, Kat All, who was recently awarded a grant from The Social and Behavioral Science Initiative for her work developing a new online Zoom-friendly task for 4-10…
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