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Santiago Morales

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Developmental Psychologist – Assistant Professor at University of Southern California, former Postdoc at University of Maryland and Penn State alum santiagomorales.net https://dornsife.usc.edu/labs/bead/

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Eagles Autism Foundation contributes $10.8 million to fund 54 research & community projects Through fundraising efforts associated with the Eagles Autism Foundation, 223 research projects and community grants have now been funded worldwide since 2018.

Honored to receive funding from the Eagles Autism Foundation!
Our project with @santimoralesphd.bsky.social will expand the inclusivity of neuroscience by examining EEG measures of anxiety & depression risk in autistic youth with intellectual disability.

www.philadelphiaeagles.com/news/eagles-...

26.02.2026 15:57 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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I’m beyond excited to share my first author (shared authorship) paper, “Associations of neighborhood deprivation and household income during pregnancy on child externalizing and internalizing problems,” now published in Development and Psychopathology! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

13.02.2026 23:05 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

🎉 PINE Lab is hiring a postbacc Research Coordinator! Projects include cohort studies examining brain mechanisms linking adversity to cognition/language & RCTs of early interventions on neurodevelopment.
apply: forms.gle/Dyay39x2XEMn...
more info: www.plasticityinneurodevelopmentlab.com/join-us

13.02.2026 18:32 👍 27 🔁 25 💬 1 📌 0
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🚨👀 Join Co-Chairs @santimoralesphd.bsky.social and myself to share developmental psychological research at APA in 2026 (August 6-8, Washington, DC)! Submissions are due on Wednesday, January 14, 2026, by 5 pm ET.

More information and submission requirements at (lnkd.in/ejUfZ4h5)

09.12.2025 19:53 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

New paper with Andy Kim, @santimoralesphd.bsky.social, and Josh Senior just published! "Electroencephalography, pupillometry, and behavioral evidence for locus coeruleus-noradrenaline system related tonic hyperactivity in older adults" authors.elsevier.com/c/1mCryivP7S...

03.12.2025 16:33 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
APA Convention 2026 | Call for Proposals Now Open Submit your proposal to present at APA 2026, August 6-8, in Washington, DC, and virtually.

📢APA 2026 Call for Proposals!
Division 7 (Developmental Psychology) invites you to join us in DC and share your newest developmental research.
Theme: Understanding the Lives of Children and Families.
Deadline Jan 14. convention.apa.org

@laurelgd.bsky.social

19.11.2025 18:19 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
APA PsycNet

November's Editor's Choice:

2025 Boyd McCandless Awardee Paper

Using novel neural measures to explore the development of infant attention bias to threat

@santimoralesphd.bsky.social

Monachino, A. D., Hernandez, A., Morales, I., Keil, A., Morales, S.

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11.11.2025 21:56 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Looking forward to working with
@laurelgd.bsky.social on the program for APA Div 7 (Developmental Psychology)!
Here are the highlights for the upcoming meeting!

28.07.2025 16:04 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
APA Convention 2025 | Perspectives Power Possibilities Explore the vibrant community, impactful sessions, and cutting-edge learning at APA 2025, August 7-9, in Denver, Colorado.

Excited to share I'll be co-chairing APA Division 7, developmental psychology! So stoked to learn from current senior co-chair the incredible @santimoralesphd.bsky.social! And check out this year's incredible lineup of sessions and talks at the APA convention in August! convention.apa.org

25.07.2025 20:11 👍 21 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
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EEG time-frequency dynamics of early cognitive control development Cognitive control is crucial for goal-directed behavior, and essential for other aspects of cognitive and socioemotional development. This review exam…

🚨 New review out!

With George Buzzell, we discuss the EEG time-frequency dynamics underlying the emergence and development of cognitive control in infancy and childhood🧠

@fluxsociety.bsky.social @fitngin.bsky.social

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#EEG #DevelopmentalNeuroscience

02.06.2025 13:58 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

The BASE Lab is hiring. See below for more information, and please share!

www.bu.edu/cdl/files/20...

30.05.2025 02:31 👍 2 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0

There is still time! Nominate an early-career developmental scientist for APA's Boyd McCandless Award!

10.03.2025 20:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Honored to have our recent paper highlighted by APA Editor’s Choice. Both concrete and digital spatial assembly experiences can boost preschoolers’ spatial skills with more nuanced transfer to math skills for children from lower-education backgrounds.

07.03.2025 03:58 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

This was fun to write! Thanks to @infantstudies.bsky.social for highlighting our work on individual differences in social and emotional development. 👶🤱🧠 Check it out!
infantstudies.org/investigatin...

24.02.2025 20:46 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Text: Latest from the Baby Blog - Researcher Spotlight: Investigating individual differences in social and emotional development by Santiago Morales. Baby lying on its back holding up a book in the background.

Text: Latest from the Baby Blog - Researcher Spotlight: Investigating individual differences in social and emotional development by Santiago Morales. Baby lying on its back holding up a book in the background.

New on the Baby Blog - Investigating individual differences in social and emotional development by
@santimoralesphd.bsky.social infantstudies.org/investigatin... #DevPsySky #PsychSciSky #EarlyYears #infantstudies

17.02.2025 15:59 👍 6 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1

🚨 Call for Nominations! 🚨
Nominate an early-career developmental scientist for
APA's Boyd McCandless Award!
🔹Eligibility: Within 7 years of PhD & APA Div. 7 member
🔹Deadline: 3/15
📩 To nominate, email santiago.morales@usc.edu
apadivisions.org/division-7/a...
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10.02.2025 18:04 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1

🚨 Calling all Developmental Psychologists! Do you have an idea for a presentation at APA’s 2025 annual convention? We want to hear it! Submit a proposal: convention.apa.org/proposals

Deadline is January 8, 2025 by 5PM ET.

@santimoralesphd.bsky.social and I are open to any questions!

04.12.2024 20:51 👍 40 🔁 19 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you!

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Thank you, Koraly!

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Thank you, Natalie!

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Thank you!

04.12.2024 04:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you to
@uscdornsife.bsky.social for this recognition! I am deeply honored and grateful. I would also like to extend my heartfelt thanks to my colleagues, mentors, and students for their continued support and collaboration!

03.12.2024 19:57 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 4 📌 0
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<em>Psychophysiology</em> | SPR Journal | Wiley Online Library We survey domain experts to provide a snapshot of the state of the field for analyzing resting EEG data in children. Although there was expert agreement in some areas, there was vast heterogeneity in...

2 years ago, @santimoralesphd.bsky.social, George Buzzell, & I asked our incredible colleagues and experts in developmental EEG, to help us complete a survey on resting EEG processing (1/8)
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

03.12.2024 17:46 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0

Hello Natalie, can you please add me? Thank you!

18.11.2024 04:13 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Great idea! I would love to be added. Thank you!

17.11.2024 04:54 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you!

16.11.2024 17:44 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I would love to be added. Thanks!

16.11.2024 17:33 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I would love to join. Thanks!

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