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45
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9471
World Ranking
6634
National Ranking
3599

Overview

Kristin A. Buss is affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States and focuses their research primarily within the field of Psychology, with a particular emphasis on Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Education.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics related to Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes, Neuroendocrine Regulation and Behavior, Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum, Early Childhood Education and Development, Child Development and Digital Technology, and broader Mental Health Research Topics.

Among Kristin A. Buss's recent publications are:

  • "The importance of using multiple outcome measures in infant research," 2020, published in Infancy
  • "The nature and neurobiology of fear and anxiety: State of the science and opportunities for accelerating discovery," 2023, published in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • "Measuring PROMIS® Emotional Distress in Early Childhood," 2022, published in Journal of Pediatric Psychology
  • "Variable- and person-centered approaches to affect-biased attention in infancy reveal unique relations with infant negative affect and maternal anxiety," 2021, published in Scientific Reports
  • "Individual differences in infancy research: Letting the baby stand out from the crowd," 2020, published in Infancy

Kristin A. Buss frequently collaborates with a group of co-authors including Koraly Pérez-Edgar, Vanessa LoBue, Anna M. Zhou, Sarah Myruski, and Kelley E. Gunther.

The venues where they have published the most include Developmental Psychobiology, Infancy, Development and Psychopathology, Depression and Anxiety, and Developmental Psychology.

Best Publications

  • Behavioral Inhibition and Stress Reactivity: The Moderating Role of Attachment Security

    Melissa Nachmias;Megan R Gunnar;Sarah Mangelsdorf;Robin Hornik Parritz

  • STRESS REACTIVITY AND ATTACHMENT SECURITY

    Megan R. Gunnar;Laurie Brodersen;Melissa Nachmias;Kristin Buss

  • Toddler and childhood temperament: expanded content, stronger genetic evidence, new evidence for the importance of environment.

    H. Hill Goldsmith;Kristin A. Buss;Kathryn S. Lemery

  • Fear and Anger Regulation in Infancy: Effects on the Temporal Dynamics of Affective Expression

    Kristin A. Buss;H. Hill Goldsmith

  • What Is Temperament Now? Assessing Progress in Temperament Research on the Twenty‐Fifth Anniversary of Goldsmith et al. ()

    Rebecca L. Shiner;Kristin A. Buss;Sandee G. McClowry;Samuel P. Putnam

  • Right frontal brain activity, cortisol, and withdrawal behavior in 6-month-old infants.

    Kristin A. Buss;Jessica R. Malmstadt Schumacher;Isa Dolski;Ned H. Kalin

  • Which fearful toddlers should we worry about? Context, fear regulation, and anxiety risk.

    Kristin A. Buss

  • Salivary cortisol as a predictor of socioemotional adjustment during kindergarten: a prospective study.

    N. A. Smider;M. J. Essex;N. H. Kalin;K. A. Buss

  • Genetic Analyses of Focal Aspects of Infant Temperament.

    H. H. Goldsmith;Kathryn S. Lemery;Kristin A. Buss;Joseph J. Campos

  • Context-specific freezing and associated physiological reactivity as a dysregulated fear response.

    Kristin A. Buss;Richard J. Davidson;Ned H. Kalin;H. Hill Goldsmith

  • Prospective Relations Among Fearful Temperament, Protective Parenting, and Social Withdrawal: The Role of Maternal Accuracy in a Moderated Mediation Framework

    Elizabeth J. Kiel;Kristin A. Buss

  • Digital disruption? Maternal mobile device use is related to infant social-emotional functioning.

    Sarah Myruski;Olga Gulyayeva;Olga Gulyayeva;Samantha Birk;Koraly Pérez-Edgar

  • The development of stranger fear in infancy and toddlerhood: normative development, individual differences, antecedents, and outcomes.

    Rebecca J. Brooker;Kristin A. Buss;Kathryn Lemery-Chalfant;Nazan Aksan

  • Dysregulated fear predicts social wariness and social anxiety symptoms during kindergarten.

    Kristin A. Buss;Elizabeth L. Davis;Elizabeth J. Kiel;Rebecca J. Brooker

  • Salivary Alpha-Amylase and Cortisol in Toddlers: Differential Relations to Affective Behavior

    Christine K. Fortunato;Amy E. Dribin;Douglas A. Granger;Kristin A. Buss

  • Comparison of Sadness, Anger, and Fear Facial Expressions When Toddlers Look at Their Mothers

    Kristin A. Buss;Elizabeth J. Kiel

  • Dynamic Measures of RSA Predict Distress and Regulation in Toddlers

    Rebecca J. Brooker;Kristin A. Buss

  • INTRODUCTION TO THE MONOGRAPH: PHYSIOLOGICAL MEASURES OF EMOTION FROM A DEVELOPMENTAL PERSPECTIVE: STATE OF THE SCIENCE

    Tracy A. Dennis;Kristin A. Buss;Paul D. Hastings

  • Cardiac reactivity is associated with changes in negative emotion in 24-month-olds.

    Kristin A. Buss;H. Hill Goldsmith;Richard J. Davidson

  • Handbook of emotional development

    Vanessa. LoBue;Koraly. P rez-Edgar;Kristin A. Buss

  • Maternal anxiety predicts attentional bias towards threat in infancy.

    Santiago Morales;Kayla M. Brown;Bradley C. Taber-Thomas;Vanessa LoBue

  • Error-monitoring brain activity is associated with affective behaviors in young children !,!!

    Rebecca J. Brooker;Kristin A. Buss;Tracy A. Dennis

Frequent Co-Authors

Koraly Pérez-Edgar
Koraly Pérez-Edgar Pennsylvania State University
Vanessa LoBue
Vanessa LoBue Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
H. Hill Goldsmith
H. Hill Goldsmith University of Wisconsin–Madison
Tracy A. Dennis
Tracy A. Dennis Hunter College
Richard J. Davidson
Richard J. Davidson University of Wisconsin–Madison
Paul D. Hastings
Paul D. Hastings University of California, Davis
Pamela M. Cole
Pamela M. Cole Pennsylvania State University
Cynthia A. Stifter
Cynthia A. Stifter Pennsylvania State University
Nilam Ram
Nilam Ram Stanford University
Megan R. Gunnar
Megan R. Gunnar University of Minnesota

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