Charles Geier, PhD - Penn State Cancer Institute
Researcher Profile

Charles Geier, PhD
Dr. Frances Keesler Graham Early Career Professorship, Associate Professor, Human Development and Family Studies
Penn State Neuroscience Institute
Penn State Neuroscience Institute
Scientific Program:Cancer Control
Research Interests
- Reward
- Brain
- Smoking
- Child
- Motivation
- Food
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging
- Smokers
- Risk-Taking
- Weights and Measures
- Short-Term Memory
- Psychological Inhibition
Recent Publications
2023
Keller, KL, Pearce, AL, Fuchs, B, Hallisky, K, Rolls, BJ, Wilson, SJ, Geier, C & Rose, EJ 2023, 'Children with lower ratings of executive functions have a greater response to the portion size effect', Appetite, vol. 186, 106569. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2023.106569
Gunther, KE, Petrie, D, Pérez-Edgar, K & Geier, C 2023, 'Relations Between Executive Functioning and Internalizing Symptoms Vary as a Function of Frontoparietal-amygdala Resting State Connectivity', Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, vol. 51, no. 6, pp. 775-788. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-023-01025-4
Chung, YI, White, R, Geier, CF, Johnston, SJ, Smyth, JM, Delgado, MR, McKee, SA & Wilson, SJ 2023, 'Testing the efficacy of real-time fMRI neurofeedback for training people who smoke daily to upregulate neural responses to nondrug rewards', Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 440-456. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-023-01070-y
2022
Gunther, KE, Petrie, D, Pearce, AL, Fuchs, BA, Pérez-Edgar, K, Keller, KL & Geier, C 2022, 'Heterogeneity in PFC-amygdala connectivity in middle childhood, and concurrent interrelations with inhibitory control and anxiety symptoms', Neuropsychologia, vol. 174, 108313. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2022.108313
2021
Adise, S, White, CN, Roberts, NJ, Geier, CF & Keller, KL 2021, 'Children's inhibitory control abilities in the presence of rewards are related to weight status and eating in the absence of hunger', Appetite, vol. 167, 105610. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2021.105610
Fuchs, BA, Roberts, NJ, Adise, S, Pearce, AL, Geier, CF, White, C, Oravecz, Z & Keller, KL 2021, 'Decision-Making Processes Related to Perseveration Are Indirectly Associated With Weight Status in Children Through Laboratory-Assessed Energy Intake', Frontiers in Psychology, vol. 12, 652595. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.652595
Petrie, DJ, Chow, SM & Geier, CF 2021, 'Effective connectivity during an avoidance-based pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer task', Brain Sciences, vol. 11, no. 11, 1472. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci11111472
Frank, JL, Broderick, PC, Oh, Y, Mitra, J, Kohler, K, Schussler, DL, Geier, C, Roeser, RW, Berrena, E, Mahfouz, J, Levitan, J & Greenberg, MT 2021, 'The Effectiveness of a Teacher-Delivered Mindfulness-Based Curriculum on Adolescent Social-Emotional and Executive Functioning', Mindfulness, vol. 12, no. 5, pp. 1234-1251. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-021-01594-9
2020
Chaby, LE, Lasseter, HC, Geier, C & Jeromin, A 2020, 'Determining effects of adolescent stress exposure on risk for posttraumatic stress disorder in adulthood', Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, vol. 36, pp. 79-89. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2020.07.004
Kling, SMR, Pearce, AL, Reynolds, ML, Garavan, H, Geier, CF, Rolls, BJ, Rose, EJ, Wilson, SJ & Keller, KL 2020, 'Development and Pilot Testing of Standardized Food Images for Studying Eating Behaviors in Children', Frontiers in Psychology, vol. 11, 1729. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01729
Pearce, AL, Adise, S, Roberts, NJ, White, C, Geier, CF & Keller, KL 2020, 'Individual differences in the influence of taste and health impact successful dietary self-control: A mouse tracking food choice study in children', Physiology and Behavior, vol. 223, 112990. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physbeh.2020.112990
2019
Roberts, NJ, Oravecz, Z, Sprague, BN & Geier, CF 2019, 'A novel hierarchical later process model: Evaluating latent sources of variation in reaction times of adult daily smokers', Frontiers in Psychiatry, vol. 10, no. JULY, 474. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00474