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Kristin Buss, Ph.D.

Tracy Winfree and Ted H. McCourtney Professor in Children, Work, and Families, Psychology
Colleges: College of the Liberal Arts
Campus: University Park

Research Interests

Areas: Emotional development and temperamental variation from birth through early childhood 

Interests: Emotional and temperament development in infants, toddlers, and preschoolers; neural, endocrine, and cardiac substrates of affect and temperament; effects of context on behavioral and physiological reactivity; emotion regulation and dysregulation of affective behaviors in the development of behavioral problems and psychopathology

Education

  • Post-doctoral fellowship, Neuroscience, University of Wisconsin, 2001
  • Ph.D., Psychology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2000