Sarah Myruski

Assistant Research Professor of Psychology

She/Her
sfm6016@psu.edu

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Research Summary

Neurocognitive emotion regulation and anxiety in development, and links with social behavior in online and in-person contexts

Huck Affiliations

Neuroscience Institute

Most Recent Publications

Family stressors impact adolescents’ anxiety and depressive symptoms during COVID-19.

Frances Lobo, Anna Zhou, Nora Tucker, Sarah Myruski, 2025, Journal of Child and Family Studies

A randomized clinical trial investigating the clinical impact of a game-based digital therapeutic for social anxiety disorder

Jennifer DeRutte, Sarah Myruski, Abigail Findley, Tracy Dennis-Tiwary, 2025, Journal of Anxiety Disorders

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

Preference for digital media use, biobehavioral attention bias, and anxiety symptoms in adolescents

Sarah Myruski, Jennifer de Rutte, Abigail Findley, Amy K. Roy, Tracy A. Dennis-Tiwary, 2024, Computers in Human Behavior Reports

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

Online food advertisements and the role of emotions in adolescents’ food choices

Martina Vecchi, Linlin Fan, Kathleen Keller, Sarah Myruski, Wei Yang, Kathleen Loralee Keller, Rudy Nayga, Rodolfo M. Nayga, 2024, Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics

Effects of attention bias modification for anxiety: Neurophysiological indices and moderation by symptom severity

Tracy A. Dennis Tiwary, Hyein Cho, Sarah Myruski, 2023, Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology - Electromyography and Motor Control on p. 45-57

Adolescent coping and social media use moderated anxiety change during the COVID-19 pandemic

Sarah Myruski, K Perez-Edgar, Koraly Pérez-Edgar, Kristin A. Buss, 2023, Journal of Adolescence on p. 1-19

Study Protocol: Temperament, Evolving Emotions, and Neuroscience Study

Kristin Buss, Sarah Myruski, K Perez-Edgar, M Wadsworth, L Dorn, 2023, psyarxiv.com

Observed parental spontaneous scaffolding predicts neurocognitive signatures of child emotion regulation

Sarah Myruski, Tracy A. Dennis-Tiwary, 2022, International Journal of Psychophysiology on p. 111-121

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

For whom the bell tolls: Neurocognitive individual differences in the acute stress-reduction effects of an attention bias modification game for anxiety

Tracy A. Dennis-Tiwary, Laura J. Egan, Sarah Babkirk, Samantha Denefrio, 2016, Behavioral Assessment on p. 105-117

The late positive potential predicts emotion regulation strategy use in school-aged children concurrently and two years later

Sarah Babkirk, Victor Rios, Tracy A. Dennis, 2015, Developmental Science on p. 832-841

Heterogeneity of the Anxiety-Related Attention Bias: A Review and Working Model for Future Research

Tracy A. Dennis-Tiwary, Amy Krain Roy, Samantha Denefrio, Sarah Myruski, 2019, Clinical Psychological Science on p. 879-899

The late positive potential as a neurocognitive index of emotion regulatory flexibility

Sarah Myruski, George A. Bonanno, Hyein Cho, Boyang Fan, Tracy A. Dennis-Tiwary, 2019, Biological Psychology

Neurocognitive assessment of emotional context sensitivity

Sarah Myruski, George A. Bonanno, Olga Gulyayeva, Laura J. Egan, Tracy A. Dennis-Tiwary, 2017, Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience on p. 1058-1071

When neutral is not neutral: Neurophysiological evidence for reduced discrimination between aversive and non-aversive information in generalized anxiety disorder

Samantha Denefrio, Sarah Myruski, Douglas Mennin, Tracy A. Dennis-Tiwary, 2019, Motivation and Emotion on p. 325-338