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Dr. Kristin Buss, Lab Director Dr. Kristin Buss is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Penn State University and Director of the Emotion Development Lab. She is interested in children’s emotional and social development. Her studies often focus on how early emotional experiences shape later development. E-mail: kab37@psu.edu |
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Jeremy Armstrong, TIKES Project Coordinator Jeremy joined the TIKES lab in April of 2008 as Project Coordinator. He is a graduate of Penn State University with a major in Psychology with a bioevolutionary sciences focus and a minor in Human Development & Family Studies. Jeremy's research interests are focused towards the development of emotion regulation in early childhood and the implications they have for developing psychopathologies later in life. He plans to further his education in a graduate counseling psychology program with a focus on children. E-mail: jpa140@psu.edu |
Jon Flynn , TIKES Project Coordinator Jon joined the TIKES lab as an undergraduate research assistant in the fall of 2008 and as a full time staff member in the summer of 2009. Jon is a graduate of Penn State with a major in Psychology. He plans to further his education in a School Psychology program. He is interested in helping children and youth succeed academically, socially, and emotionally. E-mail: jmf5137@psu.edu |
Liz Davis, Post-Doc Liz Davis is a postdoctoral researcher working with Dr. Buss. Her research focuses on the interrelations between cognitive and emotional development in childhood. Specifically, Liz is interested in the development of emotion regulation strategies, the role of discrete emotions in this development, and the potential consequences of ineffective emotion regulation for children. Liz graduated from Indiana University in 2003 with B.A.s in Psychology and Criminal Justice and received her Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from the University of California, Irvine, in 2009. E-mail: eld14@psu.edu |
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Liz Kiel, Graduate Student at Missouri Liz graduated from Boston University with a B.A. in Psychology in 2001 and began her graduate work at the University of Missouri in 2002. Since arriving here, she has been broadly interested in the developmental psychopathology of anxiety disorders. More specifically, she aims to better understand how behaviors and characteristics of children and parents interact to influence trajectories of anxiety development. She has been working with Kristin Buss on the concept of maternal accuracy, or mothers' attunement to their children's responses to various situations, and how it relates to parenting behaviors and children's fear and anxiety. She received her M.A. in 2004 and wrote her thesis about maternal accuracy in various emotion-eliciting tasks. With her dissertation, she has more recently turned her attention towards maternal accuracy specific to fear-eliciting situations, its relation to protective and intrusive parenting, and whether accuracy moderates the relation between early fearfulness and anxiety upon Kindergarten entry. E-mail: ejkf26@mizzou.edu |
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Becky Brooker, Graduate Student Becky is in her fifth year of graduate study with Dr. Buss. She is interested in identifying biomarkers associated with early childhood risk for the development of anxiety. S pecifically, her interests focus on understanding how processes of attention such as engagement and disengagement, conflict monitoring, and cognitive control are involved in the manifestation and maintenance of anxiety risk . She is additionally interested on the influence of sex and of parent behaviors on individual differences in social-emotional development and regulatory abilities. She is currently working on her doctoral dissertation, which examines these factors in a group of preschoolers. E-mail: rjb345@psu.edu |
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Amy Dribin, Graduate Student Amy is a fourth year student in the child-clinical PhD program working with Dr. Kristin Buss. Her interests include children's social and emotional development in relation to risk for psychopathology in early childhood. More specifically, she is interested in individual differences in children's biobehavioral responses during emotion eliciting situations and how these differences relate to risk and resilience. Amy received her B.A. in Psychology and Art History from Grinnell College. E-mail: dribin@psu.edu |
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Rachel Hutt, Graduate Student Rachel Hutt is entering her fourth year in the Child Clinical Doctoral Program. Her research interests focus on parental factors in relation to child behavior and emotion regulation. Specifically she is interested in how maternal behavior during interactions influences child emotion displays, cortisol reactivity, and cardiovascular functioning. She received her Bachelor of Science in Human Development from Cornell University in 2005. E-mail: rlh283@psu.edu |
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Jessica Dollar, Graduate Student Jessica Dollar is a doctoral candidate in HD FS. Jessica's primary research interests are focused on understanding how individual differences across development, including temperament and emotion, and parenting behaviors interact to support or hinder adaptive outcomes in childhood. More specifically, Jessica is interested in the exuberant style of temperament and the role of positive emotions as a risk or resiliency factor in childhood. Further, she is interested in how parents socialize positive emotions in their children. Jessica received her B.A. in Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. E-mail: jmd542@psu.edu |
Charlie Beekman, Graduate Student Charlie Beekman is in his first year in the Developmental program working with both Dr. Buss and Dr. Jenae Neiderheiser. E-mail: crb258@psu.edu |
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Emotion Development Lab Research Assistants Lindsey Bartholomew, Kara Brehm, Katherine Campbell, Rebecca Eddinger, Lauren Fischer, Daley Ford-Matz, Courtney Jenkins, Ingrid Krecko, Kamie Laih, Amanda Migliaccio, Lacey Roberts |
