Charles Geier
Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Studies

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Henderson Building South
University Park, - He/Him
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Research Summary
Adolescent neurodevelopment and risky decision making; emergence of substance use; fMRI methods
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Reward Brain Food Child Smoking Health Motivation Eating Behavior Hunger Corpus Striatum Anxiety Alcohols Self Control Curriculum Sleep Amygdala Alcohol Magnetic Resonance Imaging Risk Taking Adolescent Prefrontal Cortex Eating Individuality Aptitude EnergyMost Recent Publications
Determining risk for stress-linked psychiatric illness following adolescent stress exposure
Lauren Chaby, Heather Lasseter, Charles Geier, Andreas Jeromin, Current Opinions in Behavioral Sciences on p. 79-89
Heterogeneity in PFC-amygdala connectivity in middle childhood, and concurrent interrelations with inhibitory control and anxiety symptoms
Kelley Gunther, Daniel Petrie, Alaina L. Pearce, Bari Fuchs, Koraly Pérez-Edgar, K Perez-Edgar, Kathleen Keller, Charles Geier, 2022, Neuropsychologia
Cracking the Code of Live Human Social Interactions in Autism: A Review of the Eye- Tracking Literature
Sarah Laskowitz, Griffin, J. Griffin, Charles Geier, K. Scherf, 2022, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research on p. 22
Children's inhibitory control abilities in the presence of rewards are related to weight status and eating in the absence of hunger
S Adise, C White, N Roberts, Charles Geier, K. L. Keller, 2021, Appetite on p. 105610
Effective connectivity during an avoidance-based pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer task
Daniel J. Petrie, Sy Miin Chow, Charles F. Geier, 2021, Brain Sciences
The Effectiveness of a Teacher-Delivered Mindfulness-Based Curriculum on Adolescent Social-Emotional and Executive Functioning
Jennifer L. Frank, Patricia Broderick, Yoonkyung Oh, Joy Mitra, Kimberly Kohler, Deborah Schussler, Kimberly Kohler, Deborah L. Schussler, Charles Geier, Elaine Berrena, Robert W. Roeser, Julia Mahfouz, E Berrena, Julia Mahfouz, Joseph Levitan, Joseph Levitan, Robert Roeser, M Greenberg, 2021, Mindfulness on p. 1234-1251
Determining effects of adolescent stress exposure on risk for posttraumatic stress disorder in adulthood
Lauren E. Chaby, Heather C. Lasseter, Charles Geier, Andreas Jeromin, 2020, Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences on p. 79-89
Development and Pilot Testing of Standardized Food Images for Studying Eating Behaviors in Children
Samantha Kling, Alaina Pearce, Marissa Reynolds, Hugh Garavan, Charles F. Geier, Barbara J. Rolls, Emma J. Rose, C Geier, Stephen J. Wilson, Kathleen L. Keller, 2020, Frontiers in Psychology on p. 1729
Individual differences in the influence of taste and health impact successful dietary self-control: A mouse tracking food choice study in children
Alaina Pearce, Nicole Roberts, Shana Adise, Corey White, Nicole Roberts, Corey White, Shana Adise, Charles Geier, Kathleen L. Keller, 2020, Physiology and Behavior on p. 112990
Improving the ability to interpret eye gaze cues in autistic adolescents: A serious game intervention
Jason Griffin, Joshua Smyth, Charles Geier, C Geier, J Smyth, K Scherf, 2020, Journal of Vision on p. 1346--1346
Most-Cited Papers
Adolescent cognitive control and reward processing: Implications for risk taking and substance use
Charles F. Geier, 2013, Hormones and Behavior on p. 333-342
Adolescent brain maturation and smoking: What we know and where we're headed
David M. Lydon, Stephen J. Wilson, Amanda Child, Charles F. Geier, 2014, Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews on p. 323-342
Effects of incentives, age, and behavior on brain activation during inhibitory control: A longitudinal fMRI study
David J. Paulsen, Michael N. Hallquist, Charles F. Geier, Beatriz Luna, 2015, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience on p. 105-115
The Teenage Brain: Cognitive Control and Motivation
Beatriz Luna, David J. Paulsen, Aarthi Padmanabhan, Charles Geier, 2013, Current Directions in Psychological Science on p. 94-100
Dissociated effects of anticipating smoking versus monetary reward in the caudate as a function of smoking abstinence
Maggie M. Sweitzer, Charles F. Geier, Danielle L. Joel, Patrick McGurrin, Rachel L. Denlinger, Erika E. Forbes, Eric C. Donny, 2014, Biological Psychiatry on p. 681-688
Smoking Abstinence-Induced Changes in Resting State Functional Connectivity with Ventral Striatum Predict Lapse during a Quit Attempt
Maggie M. Sweitzer, Charles F. Geier, Merideth A. Addicott, Rachel Denlinger, Bethany R. Raiff, Jesse Dallery, F. Joseph McClernon, Eric C. Donny, 2016, Neuropsychopharmacology on p. 2521-2529
Blunted striatal response to monetary reward anticipation during smoking abstinence predicts lapse during a contingency-managed quit attempt
Maggie M. Sweitzer, Charles F. Geier, Rachel Denlinger, Erika E. Forbes, Bethany R. Raiff, Jesse Dallery, F. J. McClernon, Eric C. Donny, 2016, Psychopharmacology on p. 751-760
The within-person association between alcohol use and sleep duration and quality in situ: An experience sampling study
David M. Lydon, Nilam Ram, David E. Conroy, Aaron L. Pincus, Charles F. Geier, Jennifer L. Maggs, 2016, Addictive Behaviors on p. 68-73
Is brain response to food rewards related to overeating? A test of the reward surfeit model of overeating in children
Shana Adise, Charles F. Geier, Nicole J. Roberts, Corey N. White, Kathleen L. Keller, 2018, Appetite on p. 167-179
Modulation of reward-related neural activation on sensation seeking across development
Samuel W. Hawes, Rajpreet Chahal, Michael N. Hallquist, David J. Paulsen, Charles F. Geier, Beatriz Luna, 2017, NeuroImage on p. 763-771
News Articles Featuring Charles Geier
Oct 30, 2016
Geier recipient of early career professorship award
Charles Geier, assistant professor of human development and family studies at Penn State, was recently named as the inaugural recipient of the Dr. Frances Keesler Graham Early Career Professorship.
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