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Vanessa LoBue is affiliated with Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in the United States. Their research primarily covers the field of Psychology, with particular focus on subfields such as Clinical Psychology, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Social Psychology.

Themes central to their work include Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Child and Animal Learning Development, Early Childhood Education and Development, Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes, Neuroendocrine Regulation and Behavior, Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum, and Spatial Cognition and Navigation.

Vanessa LoBue has published multiple papers, including these recent works:

  • The importance of using multiple outcome measures in infant research (2020, Infancy)
  • Variable- and person-centered approaches to affect-biased attention in infancy reveal unique relations with infant negative affect and maternal anxiety (2021, Scientific Reports)
  • Individual differences in infancy research: Letting the baby stand out from the crowd (2020, Infancy)
  • Study Protocol: Longitudinal Attention and Temperament Study (2021, Frontiers in Psychiatry)
  • Learning about germs in a global pandemic: Children's knowledge and avoidance of contagious illness before and after COVID-19 (2021, Cognitive Development)

The scientist frequently collaborates with peers such as Koraly Pérez-Edgar, Kristin A. Buss, Lori B. Reider, Jessica L. Burris, and Emily Kim.

Their work has been published repeatedly in several key venues, notably:

  • Infancy
  • Developmental Psychobiology
  • Developmental Psychology
  • PLoS ONE
  • Frontiers in Psychology

Best Publications

  • Detecting the Snake in the Grass Attention to Fear-Relevant Stimuli by Adults and Young Children

    Vanessa LoBue;Judy S. DeLoache

  • When Getting Something Good is Bad: Even Three-year-olds React to Inequality

    Vanessa LoBue;Tracy Nishida;Cynthia Chiong;Judy S. DeLoache

  • The Child Affective Facial Expression (CAFE) set: validity and reliability from untrained adults

    Vanessa LoBue;Cat Thrasher

  • Superior detection of threat-relevant stimuli in infancy.

    Vanessa LoBue;Judy S. DeLoache

  • Pretty in pink: The early development of gender‐stereotyped colour preferences

    Vanessa LoBue;Judy S. DeLoache

  • More than just another face in the crowd: superior detection of threatening facial expressions in children and adults.

    Vanessa LoBue

  • The Narrow Fellow in the Grass: Human Infants Associate Snakes and Fear.

    Judy S. DeLoache;Vanessa LoBue

  • Young children's interest in live animals.

    Vanessa LoBue;Megan Bloom Pickard;Kathleen Sherman;Chrystal Axford

  • What we fear most: A developmental advantage for threat-relevant stimuli

    Vanessa LoBue;David H. Rakison

  • Threat Perception Across the Life Span Evidence for Multiple Converging Pathways

    Vanessa LoBue;David H. Rakison;Judy S. DeLoache

  • Deconstructing the Snake: The Relative Roles of Perception, Cognition, and Emotion on Threat Detection

    Vanessa LoBue

  • And along came a spider: An attentional bias for the detection of spiders in young children and adults

    Vanessa LoBue

  • What's so special about slithering serpents? Children and adults rapidly detect snakes based on their simple features

    Vanessa Lobue;Judy S. Deloache

  • Learning About Real Animals From Anthropomorphic Media

    Megan S. Geerdts;Megan S. Geerdts;Megan S. Geerdts;Gretchen A. Van de Walle;Vanessa LoBue

  • How very young children think about animals

    Judy S. DeLoache;Megan Bloom Pickard;Vanessa LoBue

  • Developing an Understanding of Emotion Categories: Lessons from Objects

    Katie Hoemann;Rachel Wu;Vanessa LoBue;Lisa M. Oakes

  • 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

  • What's so scary about needles and knives? Examining the role of experience in threat detection

    Vanessa LoBue

  • Sensitivity to social and non-social threats in temperamentally shy children at-risk for anxiety.

    Vanessa LoBue;Koraly Pérez-Edgar

Frequent Co-Authors

Kristin A. Buss
Kristin A. Buss Pennsylvania State University
Koraly Pérez-Edgar
Koraly Pérez-Edgar Pennsylvania State University
Judy S. DeLoache
Judy S. DeLoache University of Virginia
Andy P. Field
Andy P. Field University of Sussex
Karen E. Adolph
Karen E. Adolph New York University
Lisa M. Oakes
Lisa M. Oakes University of California, Davis
Lisa Feldman Barrett
Lisa Feldman Barrett Northeastern University
James A. Coan
James A. Coan University of Virginia
Jonathan Haidt
Jonathan Haidt New York University
Maggie Shiffrar
Maggie Shiffrar Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

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