UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA EDEN LAB

Our mission is to study individual differences in the development of the social, emotional, and behavioral skills that underpin a successful, healthy, and happy life. We study what causes people to differ in these skills through a multi-method and multi-level approach. We study genetic influences, brain function and structure, physiology, attention, and temperament, as well as parenting, community, school factors and broader, structural influences of society and culture. We seek to inform intervention and treatment approaches to improve the well-being of children and families... The EDEN Lab conducts cutting-edge and multi-method research on social and emotional development, psychopathology, temperament, and personality. In particular, we study person-level factors (e.g., heritable factors, physiology, brain function and structure) and environmental-level factors (e.g., parenting, the contexts in which children grow up) to understand what gives rise to individual differences in..

Primary location: Philadelphia United States