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Research Interests

Kristin Buss is interested in emotional development and temperamental variation from birth through early childhood. Her work spans multiple areas of research within social development, psychobiology, and neuroscience. Her current work is focused on the development of risk for adjustment problems, such as anxiety symptoms in toddlers with fearful temperaments. This work has demonstrated significant effects for types of situations where children show fear as well as their physiological stress reactivity.

Recent Publications

Kiel, E. J., & Buss, K. A. (in press). Prospective relations among fearful temperament, protective parenting, and social withdrawal: The role of maternal accuracy in a moderated mediation framework. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology.

Buss, K. A., Davis, E. L., & Kiel, E. J. (in press). Allostatic and environmental load in toddlers predicts anxiety in preschool and kindergarten. Development and Psychopathology. 

Dennis, T. A., Buss, K. A., & Hastings, P. D. (Eds).(in press). Physiological measures of emotion from a developmental perspective: State of the science. Monographs for the Society for Research in Child Development

Luebbe, A. M., Kiel, E. J., & Buss, K. A. (2011). Toddlers’ context-varying emotions, maternal responses to emotions, and internalizing behaviors. Emotion,11, 697-703. doi:10.1037/a0022994

Buss, K. A. & Kiel, E. J. (2011). Do maternal protective behaviors alleviate toddlers’ fearful distress? International Journal of Behavioral Development, 35, 136-143. DOI: 10.1177/0165025410375922

Buss, K. A. (2011). Which fearful toddlers should we worry about? Context, fear regulation and anxiety risk. Developmental Psychology, 47(3), 804–819. DOI: 10.1037/a0023227

Buss, K. A., Dennis, T. A., Brooker, R. J., & Sippel, L. M. (2011). An ERP study of conflict monitoring in 4 to 8 year old children: Associations with temperament. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 1, 131-140.

Brooker, R. J., Buss, K. A., & Dennis, T. A. (2011). Error-Monitoring brain activity is associated with affective behaviors in young children. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 1, 141-152.