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
Huck Affiliations
Publication Tags
Reward Brain Smoking Motivation Child Food Magnetic Resonance Imaging Inhibition (Psychology) Nicotine Corpus Striatum Risk Taking Adolescence Smokers Ventral Striatum Hyperphagia Individuality Health Weights And Measures Decision Making Oxygen Longitudinal Studies Feeding Behavior Reinforcement (Psychology) Self Control Cognitive ControlMost Recent Papers
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
The Effectiveness of a Teacher Delivered Mindfulness-Based Curriculum on Adolescent Social-Emotional and Executive Functioning
J Frank, Patricia Broderick, Yoonkyung Oh, Joy Mitra, Deborah Schussler, Kimberly Kohler, Charles Geier, Elaine Berrena, Julia Mahfouz, Joseph Levitan, Robert Roeser, Mark Greenberg, 2021, Mindfulness
Individual differences in the influence of taste and health impact successful dietary self-control
Alaina L. Pearce, Shana Adise, Nicole J. Roberts, Corey White, Charles F. Geier, Kathleen L. Keller, 2020, Physiology and Behavior
Development and Pilot Testing of Standardized Food Images for Studying Eating Behaviors in Children
Samantha M.R. Kling, Alaina L. Pearce, Marissa L. Reynolds, Hugh Garavan, Charles F. Geier, Barbara J. Rolls, Emma J. Rose, Stephen J. Wilson, Kathleen L. Keller, 2020, Frontiers in Psychology
Food or money? Children's brains respond differently to rewards regardless of weight status
S. Adise, C. F. Geier, N. J. Roberts, C. N. White, K. L. Keller, 2019, Pediatric obesity
A novel hierarchical later process model
Nicole J. Roberts, Zita Oravecz, Briana N. Sprague, Charles F. Geier, 2019, Frontiers in Psychiatry
Is brain response to food rewards related to overeating? A test of the reward surfeit model of overeating in children
Shana Adise, Charles Geier, Nicole J. Roberts, Corey N. White, Kathleen Loralee Keller, 2018, Appetite on p. 167-179
Age-Varying Associations Between Cigarette Smoking, Sensation Seeking, and Impulse Control Through Adolescence and Young Adulthood
David M. Lydon-Staley, Charles F. Geier, 2018, Journal of Research on Adolescence on p. 354-367
Incentives facilitate developmental improvement in inhibitory control by modulating control-related networks
Michael Nelson Hallquist, Charles Geier, Beatriz Luna, 2018, NeuroImage on p. 369-380
Extending the Balloon Analogue Risk Task to Assess Naturalistic Risk Taking via a Mobile Platform
R. Ross MacLean, Aaron L. Pincus, Joshua M. Smyth, Charles F. Geier, Stephen J. Wilson, 2018, Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment on p. 107-116
Most-Cited Papers
Developmental changes in brain function underlying the influence of reward processing on inhibitory control
Aarthi Padmanabhan, Charles F. Geier, Sarah J. Ordaz, Theresa Teslovich, Beatriz Luna, 2011, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience on p. 517-529
Effects of incentives, age, and behavior on brain activation during inhibitory control: A longitudinal fMRI study
David J. Paulsen, Michael Nelson Hallquist, Charles Geier, Beatriz Luna, 2015, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience on p. 105-115
The Teenage Brain
Beatriz Luna, David J. Paulsen, Aarthi Padmanabhan, Charles Geier, 2013, Current Directions in Psychological Science on p. 94-100
Developmental Effects of Incentives on Response Inhibition
Charles Geier, Beatriz Luna, 2012, Child Development on p. 1262-1274
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 Geier, Merideth A. Addicott, Rachel Denlinger, Bethany R. Raiff, Jesse Dallery, F. Joseph McClernon, Eric C. Donny, 2016, Neuropsychopharmacology on p. 2521-2529
Enhancing response inhibition by incentive
Tammy Chung, Charles Geier, Beatriz Luna, Stefan Pajtek, Robert Terwilliger, Dawn Thatcher, Duncan B. Clark, 2011, Drug and Alcohol Dependence on p. 43-50
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
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
Adolescent exposure to nicotine results in reinforcement enhancement but does not affect adult responding in rats
Matthew T. Weaver, Charles Geier, Melissa E. Levin, Anthony R. Caggiula, Alan F. Sved, Eric C. Donny, 2012, Drug and Alcohol Dependence on p. 307-312
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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