Congrats to Penn State Psychologist Dr. Sarah Myruski for recently receiving a NIH grant to investigate links between adolescent digital media use and anxiety. Interested in participating? Parents of teens ages 15-16 can fill out an interest form here – tinyurl.com/boltpsu

If you missed it, you can now check out the most recent #AskTheExperts webinar: “Anxiety: Youth Mental Health and Digital Media,” featuring our very own Assistant Research Professor and Associate Lab Director Dr. Sarah Myruski! ⁠-youtu.be/PMTRDPheymU?si…

Check out “Temperament, Peer Relationships, and Social Anxiety in Teens,” featured on Psychology Today and curated by second-year graduate student Maddie Politte-Corn. psychologytoday.com/us/blog/growin…

Maddie Politte-Corn, M.Ed., a second-year graduate student Emotion Development Lab, recently had her article, “Temperament, Peer Relationships, and Social Anxiety in Teens,” featured by Psychology Today. Maddie Politte-Corn Penn State Psychology #socialanxiety #temperament psychologytoday.com/us/blog/growin…

Earlier this month, Penn State Psychologist and Department Head, Dr. Kristin Buss, spent some time with members of Penn State's Chapter of Psi Chi, the international honor society in Psychology. Thank you executive members of Psi Chi for a memorable fireside chat.

Sarah Myruski, assistant research professor of psychology, recently contributed to Psychology Today: “Is Adolescent Digital Media Use Linked to Anxiety?” Sarah Myruski Emotion Development Lab Penn State Psychology Psychology Today #digitaluse #anxiety #adolescents psychologytoday.com/us/blog/growin…

We are hiring! A full-time Research Assistant is sought to work on NIMH- and Penn State-funded studies investigating anxiety and digital media use in adolescents, with a focus on emotion regulation and neurophysiological mechanisms. psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Staf…

New read alert! Check out "The Role Parents Play in Shaping Children's Emotion Regulation," written by our incredible postdoc, Michelle Ramos! psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/grow…

Research by Politte-Corn, Myruski, Cahill, Pérez-Edgar & Buss (2025): Disentangling the Role of Different Resting-State Neural Markers of Adolescent Behavioral Inhibition and Social Anxiety. Maddie Politte-Corn bridget Koraly Pérez-Edgar 🇵🇷 Penn State Psychology tinyurl.com/2jj2y3v5

Research by Maddie Politte-Corn, Kristin Buss, and colleagues examined the associations between autonomic and behavioral indices of emotional reactivity and internalizing symptoms in middle childhood. Maddie Politte-Corn Kristin Buss tinyurl.com/46bf3yu9