Charles Geier

Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Studies

Henderson Building South
University Park,
He/Him
cfg2@psu.edu
814-865-1728

Research Summary

Adolescent neurodevelopment and risky decision making; emergence of substance use; fMRI methods

Huck Graduate Students

Kathleen Meeks

Huck Affiliations

Center for Brain, Behavior, and Cognition

Neuroscience Institute

Neuroscience

Publication Tags

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 Energy

Most 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

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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