Eleanor Brown

Eleanor Brown
  • Professor
  • Department: Psychology
  • Research Cluster: Psychology & Behavioral Sciences
  • Institution: West Chester University of Pennsylvania
  • Email: EBrown@wcupa.edu

Education

  • Ph.D., University of Delaware

Research Interests

psychologychild psychologyfamily psychologyschool psychologyeducational psychologyclinical psychologyliberation psychologycounselingbiopsychologyneurophysiologychildrenearly childhoodacademic developmentemotionsemotional developmentsocial-emotional developmentneurophysiological developmentstresstraumapovertyresiliencefamily strengthscommunity strengthsliberation

Opportunities

Work Study Positions Available: No

Grant Funded Positions Available: Yes

https://www.wcupa.edu/sciences-mathematics/psychology/EBResearchLabs/reach/gettingInvolved.aspx

Course-Credit Research Opportunities Available: Yes

https://www.wcupa.edu/sciences-mathematics/psychology/EBResearchLabs/ECCEL.aspx

Volunteer Research Positions Available: No

Biography

Eleanor D. Brown, PhD is a licensed clinical psychologist and Professor of Psychology at West Chester University, where she directs the Early Childhood Cognition and Emotions Lab (ECCEL) and co-directs the Research on Equity via the Arts in Childhood or REACH Lab. Dr. Brown is internationally recognized for her scholarship on children facing stress and trauma related to poverty and racism, as well as her research on arts-based interventions. Her scholarship has highlighted diversity among families facing adversity and opportunities for building on family and community strengths to promote children's flourishing. For the past 15 years, Dr. Brown has worked with community partners such as Settlement Music School to study how music and the arts might advance equity. Dr. Brown serves as an advisor for arts policy, practice, and funding initiatives as well as for PBS Kids® and for Sesame Workshop and PNC’s Grow Up Great® initiative. She loves being a mom and enjoys supporting her own children’s passion for music and the arts.

Contact Information

Phone: 610-436-3153

List of Publications

  • Brown, E.D., Gensbauer, J.,* Garnett, M.L., & Holochwost, S.J. (in press). Parent anger relates to cortisol levels for children attending Head Start Preschool. Family Relations.
  • Brown, E.D., Schnarr, E., & Guzi, C. (in press). Parent-reported daily poverty-related stress relates to preschoolers' emotion regulation. Early Education and Development. https://doi.org/10.1080/10409289.2025.2598585
  • Brown, E.D., & Kriebel, D.K.* (2025). Parents’ implicit theories of intelligence and children’s responses to academic challenge. Early Child Development and Care, 195(4), 357–372. https://doi.org/10.1080/03004430.2025.2486327
  • Brown, E.D., King, S.,* Garnett, M.L., & Holochwost, S. (2025). Emotion knowledge relates to cortisol for children attending Head Start preschool. Early Education and Development, 36 (1), 204–218. https://doi.org/10.1080/10409289.2024.2370292
  • Varnell, S., Brown, E.D., Holochwost, S., Allen, A., Malatesta, J., Garnett, M.L., & Velazquez-Martin, B. (2024). Visual arts activities relate to interest and cortisol for children in Head Start preschool. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000711

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