Kristin Buss
McCourtney Professor and Head of Psychology

-
140 Moore
University Park, PA - kab37@psu.edu
- 814-863-1715
Research Summary
The complex systems involved in the development of emotion, emotion regulation, temperament, and adjustment from infancy to early adolescence
Huck Affiliations
Links
Most Recent Publications
Do you see what I mean?: Using mobile eye tracking to capture parent-child dynamics in the context of anxiety risk
Leigha A. Macneill, Xiaoxue Fu, Kristin A. Buss, Koraly Elisa Perez-Edgar, Development and Psychopathology on p. 1-16
Maternal Accuracy for Children’s Fearful Distress in Toddlerhood and Kindergarten: Moderation of a Serial Indirect Effect by Toddler Fearful Temperament
Elizabeth Kiel, Kalomiris, Kristin Buss, Parenting on p. 277-303
Developmental differences in young children’s implied use of cognitive resources in their self-regulation strategies
Gabrielle Sky Cardwell, Pamela Marie Cole, Brooke Weaver, Jenna M. Leadbeater, Erika S. Lunkenheimer, Kristin Buss, Lisa Gatzke-Kopp, Nilam Ram, 2025, Social Development
Digital Media Use Preference Indirectly Relates to Adolescent Social Anxiety Symptoms Through Delta-Beta Coupling
Sarah Myruski, Bridget Cahill, Kristin A. Buss, 2024, Affective Science on p. 310-320
Visual and behavioral responses to social and non-social threats: A multi-site replication
Jessica L. Burris, Lori B. Reider, Denise S. Oleas, Kristin A. Buss, Koraly Pérez-Edgar, Vanessa LoBue, 2024, Acta Psychologica
Bidirectional Relations Among Maternal Positive Emotion, Infant Positive Emotionality, and Infant Physiological Regulation Across the First 18 Months of Life
Eunkyung Shin, Marisa N. Lytle, Anna M. Zhou, Vanessa LoBue, Kristin A. Buss, Koraly Pérez-Edgar, 2024, Developmental Psychobiology
Individual Differences in Developmental Trajectories of Affective Attention and Relations With Competence and Social Reticence With Peers
Alicia Vallorani, Kelley E. Gunther, Lori B. Reider, Jessica L. Burris, Vanessa LoBue, Kristin A. Buss, Koraly Pérez-Edgar, 2024, Emotion on p. 1985-1997
Interactions among stress, behavioral inhibition, and delta–beta coupling predict adolescent anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic
Michelle L. Ramos, Anna M. Zhou, Marisa N. Lytle, Sarah Myruski, Koraly Pérez-Edgar, K Perez-Edgar, Kristin A. Buss, 2024, Developmental Psychobiology
A Functionalist Perspective of Young Children’s Anger and Sadness
Gabrielle Sky Cardwell, Pamela Marie Cole, Lisa Gatzke-Kopp, Erika S. Lunkenheimer, Kristin A. Buss, Nilam Ram, 2024, Emotion
Categorical and Latent Profile Approaches to Temperamental Infant Reactivity and Early Trajectories of Socioemotional Adjustment
Bereniece Anaya, Linda Bierstedt, Nora Tucker, Kristin Buss, Vanessa LoBue, K Perez-Edgar, Koraly Pérez-Edgar, 2024, Developmental Psychology
Most-Cited Papers
Digital disruption? Maternal mobile device use is related to infant social-emotional functioning
Sarah Myruski, Olga Gulyayeva, Samantha Birk, Koraly Pérez-Edgar, Kristin A. Buss, Tracy A. Dennis-Tiwary, 2018, Developmental Science
Maternal anxiety predicts attentional bias towards threat in infancy
Santiago Morales, Kayla M. Brown, Bradley C. Taber-Thomas, Vanessa LoBue, Kristin A. Buss, Koraly E. Pérez-Edgar, 2017, Emotion on p. 874-883
Coregulation of respiratory sinus arrhythmia between parents and preschoolers: Differences by children's externalizing problems
Erika Lunkenheimer, Stacey S. Tiberio, Kristin A. Buss, Rachel G. Lucas-Thompson, Steven M. Boker, Zachary C. Timpe, 2015, Developmental Psychobiology on p. 994-1003
Parent-child coregulation of parasympathetic processes varies by social context and risk for psychopathology
Erika Lunkenheimer, Stacey Tiberio, Amanda Skoranski, Kristin A. Buss, Pamela M. Cole, 2018, Psychophysiology on p. e12985
Attention biases towards and away from threat mark the relation between early dysregulated fear and the later emergence of social withdrawal
Santiago Morales, Koraly E. Pérez-Edgar, Kristin A. Buss, 2015, Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology on p. 1067-1078
Dysregulated Fear, Social Inhibition, and Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia: A Replication and Extension
Kristin A. Buss, Elizabeth L. Davis, Nilam Ram, Michael Coccia, 2018, Child Development on p. e214-e228
The effects of distraction and reappraisal on children's parasympathetic regulation of sadness and fear
Elizabeth L. Davis, Laura E. Quiñones-Camacho, Kristin A. Buss, 2016, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology on p. 344-358
Longitudinal associations between temperament and socioemotional outcomes in young children: The moderating role of RSA and gender
Santiago Morales, Charles Beekman, Alysia Blandon, C Stifter, Kristin A. Buss, 2015, Developmental Psychobiology on p. 105-119
Conducting event-related potential (ERP) research with young children: A review of components, special considerations, and recommendations for research on cognition and emotion
Rebecca J. Brooker, John E. Bates, Kristin A. Buss, Mara J. Canen, Tracy A. Dennis-Tiwary, Lisa M. Gatzke-Kopp, Caroline Hoyniak, Daniel N. Klein, Autumn Kujawa, Ayelet Lahat, Connie Lamm, Jason S. Moser, Isaac T. Petersen, Alva Tang, Steven Woltering, Louis A. Schmidt, 2020, Journal of Psychophysiology on p. 137-158
You get what you get and you don't throw a fit!: Emotion socialization and child physiology jointly predict early prosocial development
Meghan B. Scrimgeour, Elizabeth L. Davis, Kristin A. Buss, 2016, Developmental Psychology on p. 102-116