Kristin Buss

McCourtney Professor and Head of Psychology

Kristin Buss

Research Summary

The complex systems involved in the development of emotion, emotion regulation, temperament, and adjustment from infancy to early adolescence

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Most Recent Publications

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

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

Parent-Reported Toddler Dysregulation and Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia Predict Trajectories of Childhood Externalizing Behaviors

Michelle Ramos, Anna Zhou, Kristin Buss, 2025, Developmental Psychobiology

Disentangling the role of different resting-state neural markers of adolescent behavioral inhibition and social anxiety

Madison Politte-Corn, S Myruski, Bridget Cahill, K Perez-Edgar, Kristin Buss, 2025, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience on p. 101560

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

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