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:
Buss, K. A., Brooker, R. J., & Leuty, M. (in press). Girls most of the time, boys some of the time: Gender differences in toddlers’ use of maternal proximity and comfort seeking. Infancy.
Buss, K. A., & Goldsmith, H. H. (2007). Biobehavioral approaches to early socioemotional development. In C. A. Brownell & C. B. Kopp (Eds.), Transitions in Early Socioemotional Development: The Toddler Years. New York: Guilford.
Kiel, E. J., & Buss, K. A. (2006). Maternal accuracy in predicting toddlers' behaviors and associations with toddlers' fearful temperament. Child Development, 77, 355-370.
Buss, K. A., Goldsmith, H. H., & Davidson, R. J. (2005). Cardiac reactivity is associated with changes in negative emotion in 24-month-olds. Developmental Psychobiology, 46, 118-132.
Buss, K. A., & Kiel, E. J. (2004). Comparison of sadness, anger, and fear facial expressions when toddlers looks at their mother. Child Development, 75, 1761-1773.
Buss, K. A., Davidson, R. J., Kalin, N. H., & Goldsmith, H. H. (2004). Context specific freezing and associated physiological reactivity as a dysregulated fear response. Developmental Psychology, 40, 583-594.
