Dr. Kristin Buss, Associate Professor of Psychology in the College of the Liberal Arts received her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research examines temperament and emotional development in young children and is aimed at uncovering the physiological and contextual mechanisms underlying individual differences in affective development with a focus on fear and emotion regulation.
Dr. Buss has spent the past 15 years studying emotional reactivity with observational and psychobiological methods, including endocrine and cardiac physiology, EEG, ERP. She is an expert in micro-analytic coding and analysis of fear reactivity and fear regulation. Through a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), she currently is examining the developmental trajectories of toddlers identified as fearful and the factors that contribute to their risk for anxious adjustment problems in kindergarten.