Faculty

Clancy Blair
Ph.D., University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1996

Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Studies

Contact Information

S110 Henderson Building

cbb11@psu.edu

Phone: 814-863-6423
Fax: 814-863-6207

http://www.hhdev.psu.edu/hdfs/faculty/blair.html

Research Interests

Design and evaluation of preventive interventions; developmental relation between emotion and cognition in early childhood; application of epidemiological methods to the study of child development

Examples of Current Prevention Projects

Head Start (Head Start REDI––Research-based, Developmentally Informed)
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Start Date: 2003
This project will evaluate the impact of infusing current Head Start programs with social-emotional support curricula (Preschool PATHS) and language and emergent literacy skill support curricula. A randomized trial will examine the impact on child school readiness at the end of Head Start and on adjustment and achievement in kindergarten and first grade.

Family Life Project

National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Start Date 2002
This project examines social and cognitive development in 1,200 infants and their families over the first 3 years of life. As part of a larger program project examining families characterized by high levels of poverty living in predominantly rural counties in Pennsylvania and North Carolina, this study will investigate the ways in which child, family and community level characteristics contribute to the development of self-regulation in young children.

Psychophysiology of Adaptation––Children in Head Start
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Start Date: 2001

Recent Publications

Blair, C. (2002). School readiness: Integrating cognition and emotion in a neurobiological conceptualization of child functioning at school entry. American Psychologist, 57, 111-127.

Peters, R. & Blair, C. (2003). False-belief understanding in children living in poverty. Early Education and Development, 14, 425-439.

Blair, C., Peters, R., & Granger, D. (in press). Physiological and neuropsychological correlates of approach/withdrawal behavior in preschool: Further examination of the BIS/BAS scales for young children. Developmental Psychobiology.

Gottlieb, G. & Blair, C. (in press). How early experience matters in intellectual development in the case of poverty. Prevention Science.

Blair, C., & Peters, R. (In press). Physiological and neurocognitive correlates of adaptive behavior in preschool among children in Head Start. Developmental Neuropsychology.