Koraly Pérez-Edgar
Koraly Pérez-Edgar | |
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| Occupations | McCourtney Professor of Child Studies and Professor of Psychology |
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| Alma mater | Dartmouth College; Harvard University |
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| Institutions | Pennsylvania State University |
Koraly Elisa Pérez-Edgar is a developmental psychologist who studies the temperament of young children and connections between temperament, anxiety disorders, and other forms of psychopathology. She is known for her studies of shy children who may develop behavioral inhibition or social anxiety.
Pérez-Edgar is a McCourtney Professor of Child Studies and Professor of Psychology at Pennsylvania State University where she directs the Cognition, Affect, and Temperament Lab. Pérez-Edgar is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Developmental Psychology.