Lisa Gatzke-Kopp
Professor of Human Development and Family Studies
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228 Health and Human Development
University Park, PA - lmk18@psu.edu
- 814-867-2371
Research Summary
Developmental neuroscience of psychopathology with a focus on aggression, hyperactivity, and substance abuse; relationship between experience, environment, and neurobiological dysfunction.
Huck Affiliations
Most Recent Publications
Physiological regulation amond caregivers and their children: Relations with trauma history, symptoms, and parenting behavior.
Laurel Kiser, Diana Fishbein, Lisa Gatzke-Kopp, r Viverette, Kristine Creavey, J Stevenson, D. Medoff, Alex Busuito, Journal of Child and Family Studies on p. 3098-3109
Differences in Consummatory but Not Anticipatory Reward Processing Predict Depressive Symptoms in Young Adult Women
Ty Lees, Lisa M. Gatzke-Kopp, 2025, Psychophysiology
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
Children’s executive functioning and health behaviors across pediatric life stages and ecological contexts
Nichole R. Kelly, Derek Kosty, Yosef Bodovski, Courtney K. Blackwell, Jody M. Ganiban, Jenae M. Neiderhiser, Dana Dabelea, Diane Gilbert-Diamond, Judy L. Aschner, Theresa M. Bastain, Carrie V. Breton, Nicole R. Bush, Catrina A. Calub, Carlos A. Camargo, Marie Camerota, Lisa A. Croen, Amy J. Elliott, Michelle Bosquet Enlow, Assiamira Ferrara, Tina Hartert, Robert M. Joseph, Margaret R. Karagas, Rachel S. Kelly, Kristen Lyall, Kelsey E. Magee, Cindy T. McEvoy, Francheska M. Merced-Nieves, Thomas G. O’Connor, Sara Santarossa, Susan L. Schantz, Rebecca J. Schmidt, Joseph B. Stanford, Jennifer K. Straughen, Annemarie Stroustrup, Nicole M. Talge, Rosalind J. Wright, Qi Zhao, Leslie D. Leve, S. Swan, K. Z. LeWinn, E. Barrett, R. Nguyen, K. Huddleston, A. Giardino, C. Porucznik, T. Woodruff, D. Ruden, M. Elliott, N. Paneth, L. Gatzke-Kopp, 2025, Journal of Behavioral Medicine
Do small effects matter more in vulnerable populations? an investigation using Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) cohorts
Janet L. Peacock, Susana Diaz Coto, Judy R. Rees, Odile Sauzet, Elizabeth T. Jensen, Raina Fichorova, Anne L. Dunlop, Nigel Paneth, Amy Padula, Tracey Woodruff, Rachel Morello-Frosch, Jessica Trowbridge, Dana Goin, Luis E. Maldonado, Zhongzheng Niu, Akhgar Ghassabian, Leonardo Transande, Assiamira Ferrara, Lisa A. Croen, Stacey Alexeeff, Carrie Breton, Augusto Litonjua, Thomas G. O’Connor, Kristen Lyall, Heather Volk, Akram Alshawabkeh, Justin Manjourides, Carlos A. Camargo, Dana Dabelea, Christine W. Hockett, Casper G. Bendixsen, Irva Hertz-Picciotto, Rebecca J. Schmidt, Alison E. Hipwell, Kate Keenan, Catherine Karr, Kaja Z. LeWinn, Barry Lester, Marie Camerota, Jody Ganiban, Cynthia McEvoy, Michael R. Elliott, Sheela Sathyanarayana, Nan Ji, Joseph M. Braun, Margaret R. Karagas, F. Perera, S. Swan, J. Neiderhiser, L. Gatzke-Kopp, 2024, BMC Public Health
Using ECHO program data to develop a brief measure of caregiver support and cognitive stimulation using the home observation for measurement of the environment-infant/toddler (HOME-IT)
Cindy O. Trevino, Jin Shei Lai, Xiaodan Tang, Kaja Z. LeWinn, Sara S. Nozadi, Adaeze Wosu, Leslie D. Leve, Nissa R. Towe-Goodman, Yu Ni, Joyce Carolyn Graff, Catherine J. Karr, Brent R. Collett, P. B. Smith, L. K. Newby, L. P. Jacobson, D. J. Catellier, R. Gershon, D. Cella, L. Trasande, L. Gatzke-Kopp, M. Swingler, C. Karr, F. Tylavsky, A. Mason, Q. Zhao, N. Bush, J. Ganiban, J. Neiderhiser, 2024, Child Development on p. 2241-2251
An Introduction to Inverse Probability Weighting and Marginal Structural Models: The Case of Environmental Tobacco Exposure and Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Behaviors
Michael T. Willoughby, Siri Warkentien, Erica N. Browne, Lisa Gatzke-Kopp, Daniel Berry, 2024, Developmental Psychology
Green Space and Internalizing or Externalizing Symptoms among Children
Nissa Towe-Goodman, Kristen L. McArthur, Michael Willoughby, Margaret M. Swingler, Cara Wychgram, Allan C. Just, Itai Kloog, Deborah H. Bennett, Daniel Berry, Marnie F. Hazlehurst, M Hazelhurst, Peter James, Marcia Pescador Jimenez, Jin Shei Lai, Leslie D. Leve, Lisa Gatzke-Kopp, Julie B. Schweitzer, Traci A. Bekelman, Catrina Calub, Susan Carnell, Sean Deoni, Viren D'Sa, Carrie Kelly, D Kionis-Mitchell, Daphne Koinis-Mitchell, Michael Petriello, Gita Thapaliya, Rosalind J. Wright, Xueying Zhang, Amii M. Kress, 2024, JAMA network open on p. E245742
Airborne Lead Exposure and Childhood Cognition: The Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Cohort (2003–2022)
Lisa Gatzke-Kopp, Michael Willoughby, Amii M. Kress, Kristen McArthur, Cara Wychgram, David C. Folch, Steve Brunswasser, Dana Dabelea, Amy J. Elliott, Tina Hartert, Margaret Karagas, Cindy T. McEvoy, James A. VanDerslice, Robert O. Wright, Rosalind J. Wright, 2024, American Journal of Public Health on p. 309-318
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
Most-Cited Papers
The dynamics of internalizing and externalizing comorbidity across the early school years
Cynthia J. Willner, Lisa M. Gatzke-Kopp, Bethany C. Bray, 2016, Development and Psychopathology on p. 1033-1052
Quantifying respiratory sinus arrhythmia: Effects of misspecifying breathing frequencies across development
Tiffany M. Shader, Lisa M. Gatzke-Kopp, Sheila E. Crowell, M. Jamila Reid, Julian F. Thayer, Michael W. Vasey, Carolyn Webster-Stratton, Ziv Bell, Theodore P. Beauchaine, 2018, Development and Psychopathology on p. 351-366
Estimating time-varying RSA to examine psychophysiological linkage of marital dyads
Kathleen M. Gates, Lisa M. Gatzke-Kopp, Maria Sandsten, Alysia Y. Blandon, 2015, Psychophysiology on p. 1059-1065
Diversity and representation: Key issues for psychophysiological science
Lisa Michelle Kopp, 2016, Psychophysiology on p. 3-13
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
Developmental dynamics of autonomic function in childhood
Lisa Gatzke-Kopp, Nilam Ram, 2018, Psychophysiology on p. e13218
Emotional Reactivity, Behavior Problems, and Social Adjustment at School Entry in a High-risk Sample
Carla B. Kalvin, Karen L. Bierman, Lisa M. Gatzke-Kopp, 2016, Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology on p. 1527-1541
Implications of ongoing neural development for the measurement of the error-related negativity in childhood
David Dupuis, Nilam Ram, Cynthia J. Willner, Sarah Karalunas, Sidney J. Segalowitz, Lisa M. Gatzke-Kopp, 2015, Developmental Science on p. 452-468
When you go low, I go high: Negative coordination of physiological synchrony among parents and children
Kristine L. Creavy, Lisa M. Gatzke-Kopp, Xutong Zhang, Diana Fishbein, Laurel J. Kiser, 2020, Developmental Psychobiology on p. 310-323
How does reactivity to frustrative non-reward increase risk for externalizing symptoms?
Lisa M. Gatzke-Kopp, Cynthia J. Willner, Michelle K. Jetha, Rachel M. Abenavoli, David DuPuis, Sidney J. Segalowitz, 2015, International Journal of Psychophysiology on p. 300-309
News Articles Featuring Lisa Gatzke-Kopp
Jul 01, 2023
Exposure to tobacco smoke increases heavy metals in children’s saliva: Study
Exposure to tobacco smoke has been linked with an increase in the presence of non-essential heavy metals such as lead in children’s saliva, which could cause biological malfunctioning, leading to health and behavioural problems.
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Jan 28, 2021
Infants exposed to second-hand smoke may develop behavior problems later in life
When parents think of baby-proofing, they may think of baby gates and outlet covers, but there might be something less obvious to consider: whether previous occupants of their home were smokers. According to a National Institutes of Health-funded study by researchers at Penn State and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), babies can be exposed to nicotine left behind in the home.
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Jan 03, 2019
How to Protect Babies From Secondhand and Thirdhand Smoke
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Dec 06, 2018
Low-income, rural kids at higher risk for second- or third-hand smoke exposure
NIH-funded study suggests ways to reduce risk for infants and toddlers.
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