The Child Study Center
Rutgers University
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Oakes, L., LoBue, V., & Casasola, M. (2023). Infancy: The Development of the Whole Child. Sage Publishing.
LoBue, V. (2019). 9 Months In, 9 Months Out: A Scientist’s Tale of Pregnancy and Parenthood. Oxford University Press.
LoBue, V., Pérez-Edgar, K., & Buss, K. A. (Eds.). (2019). Handbook of Emotional Development. Springer, Cham.
2024 and in press
Anaya, B., Bierstedt, L., Tucker, N., Buss, K., A., LoBue, V., & Pérez-Edgar, K. (in press). Categorical and latent profile approaches to temperamental infant reactivity and early trajectories of socioemotional adjustment. Developmental Psychology. PDF
Bambha, V. P., Beckner, A., Shetty, N., Voss, A., Xie, J., Yiu, E., LoBue, V., Oakes, L., & Casasola, M. (in press). Developmental changes in children's object insertions during play. Journal of Cognition and Development. PDF
Beckner, A. G., Simpson, M. Tompkins, D. N., Voss, A. T., Winebrake, D., LoBue, V., Oakes, L. M., & Casasola, M. (in press). A novel approach to assessing infant and child mental rotation. Journal of Intelligence. PDF
Ogren, M., LoBue, V., & Sandhofer, C. M. (in press). How do emotion words impact children’s emotion learning? Developmental Psychology. PDF
Rakison, D. H. & LoBue, V. (in press). Cascades in child development and health. In Bornstein, M. (ed.) APA Handbook of Pediatric Psychology, Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics, and Developmental Science. American Psychological Association, Washington, DC. PDF
Reider, L. B. & LoBue, V. (in press). The influence of anthropomorphism on children's learning and attitudes towards snakes. Frontiers in Developmental Psychology. PDF
Reider, L. B., Mahaffey, E. M., Barylski, B., & LoBue, V. (in press). It bites!”: The transmission of negative information about snakes and spiders through a naturalistic picture book interaction. Developmental Psychology. PDF
Reider L. B., Kim, E., Mahaffey, E. M., & LoBue, V. (in press). The impact of household pets on children’s daily lives: Differences in parent-child conversations and implications for children’s emotional development. Developmental Psychology. PDF
Vallorani, A., Gunther, K. E., Burris, J. L., LoBue, V., Buss, K. A., & Pérez-Edgar, K. (in press). Individual differences in developmental trajectories of affect-biased attention and relations with caregiver anxiety symptoms, infant temperamental negative affect, and social behavior with peers. Emotion. PDF
Zhou, A.M., Lytle, M.N., Youatt, E.A., Pérez-Edgar, K., LoBue, V., & Buss, K.A. (in press). Examining transactional associations between maternal internalizing symptoms, infant negative emotionality, and infant respiratory sinus arrhythmia. Biological Psychology. PDF
2023
Gunther, K. E., Anaya, B., Myruski, S., Burrist, J. L., LoBue, V., Buss, K.A, & Pérez-Edgar, K. (2023). Caregiver threat attention bias variability: A Goldilocks effect in infant emotional development? Development and Psychopathology, 35, 2073-2085. PDF
Kim, E., Van de Walle, G., & LoBue, V. (2023). Preschool-aged children’s responses to unfairness and subsequent sharing behavior in dyadic contexts. Social Development, 32, 1134-1148. PDF
LoBue, V., Bonawitz, E., Leotti, L., & Fefferman, N. (2023). How children develop healthy behavioral choices to promote illness prevention. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 32(1), 3-9. PDF
LoBue, V., Pérez-Edgar, K, Kirkham, N., & Herbert, J. (2023). The Impact of COVID-19 on Infant Development: A Special Issue of Infancy. Infancy, 28, 4-7. PDF
Ogren, M., Barrett, L. F., Hoemann, K., & LoBue, V. (2023). Heightened fearfulness in infancy is not adaptive: Commentary on Grossman. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 46(e52), 44-46. PDF
Vallorani, A., Gunther, K., E., Anaya, B., Burris, J. L., Field, A. P., LoBue, V., Buss, K. A., & Pérez-Edgar, K. (2023). Assessing bidirectional relations between infant temperamental negative affect, maternal anxiety symptoms and infant affect-biased attention across the first 24-months of life. Developmental Psychology, 59 (2), 364-376. PDF
2022
Bierstedt, L. A., Reider, L. B., Burris, J. L., Vallorani, A., Gunther, K. E., Buss, K. A., Pérez-Edgar, K., & LoBue, V. (2022. Bi-directional relations between attention and social fear across the first two years of life. Infant Behavior and Development, 69, 101750. PDF
Burris, J. L., Reider, L. B., Oleas, D. S., Gunther, K. E., Buss, K. A., Pérez-Edgar, K., Field, A. P., & LoBue, V. (2022). Moderating effects of environmental stressors on the development of attention to threat in infancy. Developmental Psychobiology, 64(3), e22241. PDF
Fefferman, N. H., Blacker, K., Price, C. A., & LoBue, V. (2022). When do children avoid infection risks: Lessons for schools during the COVID-19 pandemic. iScience, 25, 103989. PDF
Garstein, M. A., Seamon, E., Mattera, J. A., Enlow, M. B., Wright, R. J., Pérez-Edgar, K., Buss, K. A., LoBue, V., Bell, M. A., Goodman, S. H., Spieker, S. Bridgett, D. J., Salisbury, A. L., Gunner, M., Muzik, M., Stifter, C., Planalp, E. M., Mehr, S., Spelke, E., Lukowski, A. F., Groh, A., Lickenbrock, D. M., Santelli, R., Schudlich, T. D. R., Anzman-Frasca, S., Thrasher, C., Diaz, A. Dayton, C., Moding, K., Jordan, E. M., & Mliner, S. (2022). Using machine learning to understand age and gender classification based on infant temperament. PLoS One, 17(4), e0266026. PDF
LoBue, V., Kim, E., Marrone, L., Blacker, K. A., & Van de Walle, G. (2022). Behavioral avoidance of contagious and non-contagious adults. PLoS ONE, 17(8), e0272726. PDF
LoBue, V., & Ogren, M. (2022). How the emotional environment shapes the emotional life of the child. Policy Insights from Brain and Behavioral Sciences, 9, 137-144. PDF
Reider L. B., Bierstedt, L., Burris, J. L., Vallorani, A., Gunther, K. E., Buss, K. A., Pérez-Edgar, K., Field, A., & LoBue, V. (2022). Developmental patterns of affective attention across the first two years of life. Child Development, 93 (6), e607-e621. PDF
2021
Anaya, B., Ostlund, B., LoBue, V., Buss, K., & Pérez-Edgar, K. (2021). Psychometric properties of infant EEG: Developmental stability, reliability, and construct validity of frontal alpha asymmetry and delta-beta coupling. Developmental Psychobiology, 63, e22178. PDF
Conradt,* M., Reider,* L. B., & LoBue, V. (2021). Exploring parent-child conversations about live snakes and spiders: Implications for the development of animal fears. Visitor Studies, 24, 58-78. (*joint first authors). PDF
Leotti, L., Bonawitz, E., Pochinki, N., Reis*, D., & LoBue, V. (2021). Learning about germs in a global pandemic: Children’s knowledge and avoidance of contagious illness before and after COVID-19. Cognitive Development, 59, 101090. PDF
Pérez-Edgar, K., LoBue, V., & Buss, K. A. (2021). Introduction to Special Issue: From parents to children and back again: Bidirectional processes in the transmission and development of depression and anxiety. Depression & Anxiety, 38 (12), 1198-1200. PDF
Pérez-Edgar, K., LoBue, V., & Buss, K. A. (Eds.). (2021). From parents to children and back again: Bidirectional processes in the transmission and development of depression and anxiety. Depression & Anxiety, 38 (12), 1198-1312. PDF
Pérez-Edgar, K, LoBue, V., Buss, K. A., Field, A. P., Reider, L., Burris, J., Oleas, D. Zhou, A., Thomas, C., Leigh, S., Ostlund, B., Anaya, B., Gunther, K., Vallorani, A., Youatt, E., Smith, C., Promagan, N., Brown, K. Bierstedt, L., Pinzon, C., Revilla, K., Sarquez, M., Fu, X., Morales, S., MacNeill, L. Auday, E., Ermanni, B., Tucker, D., & Metcalf, K. (2021). Study Protocol: Longitudinal Attention and Temperament study (LAnTs). Frontiers in Psychiatry, 12, 679. PDF
Pochinki, N., Reis, D., Casasola, M., Oakes, L., & LoBue, V. (2021). Natural variability in parent-child puzzle play at home. Frontiers in Developmental Psychology, Special Topic on Empirical Research at a Distance: New Methods for Developmental Science, 12, 733895. PDF
Vallorani, A., Fu, X., Morales, S., LoBue, V., Buss, K. A., Pérez-Edgar, K. (2021). Variable- and person-centered approaches to affect-biased attention in infancy reveal unique relations with infant negative affect and maternal anxiety. Scientific Reports, 11:1719. PDF
2020
Conrad, M., Kim, E., Blacker, K., Walden, Z. & LoBue, V. (2020). Using Storybooks to teach Children about illness transmission and promote adaptive health behavior: A pilot study. Frontiers in Developmental Psychology, 11, 942. PDF
Fu, X., Morales, S., LoBue, V., Buss, K. A., Pérez-Edgar, K. (2020). Temperament moderates developmental changes in vigilance to emotional faces in infants: Evidence from an eye-tracking study. Developmental Psychobiology, 62, 339-352. PDF
Hoemann*, K., Wu*, R., LoBue*, V., Oakes*, L. M., Xu*, F., & Feldman Barrett*, L. (2020). Developing an understanding of emotion categories: Lessons from objects. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 24, 39-51. (*joint first authors). PDF
LoBue, V., Reider, L. B., Kim, E., Burris, J. L., Oleas, D., Buss, K. A., Pérez-Edgar, K., & Field, A. P. (2020). The importance of using multiple outcome measures in infant research. Infancy, 25, 420-437. PDF
Pérez-Edgar, K., Vallorani, A., Buss, K. A., & LoBue, V. (2020). Individual differences in infancy research: Letting the baby stand out from the crowd. Infancy, 25, 438-457. PDF
Yang, Y. & LoBue, V. (2020). The Child Affective Facial Expression set short versions (CAFE-Ss): Development and validation of two subsets of children’s emotional faces with variability. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 3433. PDF
2019
Burris, J. L., Buss, K. A., LoBue, V., Pérez-Edgar, K., & Field, A. P. (2019). Biased attention to threat and anxiety: On taking a developmental approach. Journal of Experimental Psychopathology, 10(3), 2043808719860717. PDF
Burris, J. L., Oleas, D., Reider, L., Buss, K. A., Pérez-Edgar, K., & LoBue, V. (2019). Biased attention to threat: Answering old questions with young infants. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 28, 534-539. PDF
LoBue, V., & Adolph, K. E. (2019). Fear in infancy: Lessons from snakes, spiders, heights, and strangers. Developmental Psychology, 55, 1889-1907. PDF
LoBue, V., Kim, E. & Delgado, M. (2019) Fear in development. In: LoBue, V., Perez-Edgar, P., & Buss, K. (eds.) Handbook of Emotional Development. Springer, Cham. PDF
LoBue, V., Pérez-Edgar, K., & Buss, K.A. (2019) Emotional development, past and present. In: LoBue, V., Perez-Edgar, P., & Buss, K. (eds.) Handbook of Emotional Development. Springer, Cham. PDF
LoBue, V., Pérez-Edgar, K., & Buss, K.A. (2019) The future of emotional development. In: LoBue, V., Perez-Edgar, P., & Buss, K. (eds.) Handbook of Emotional Development. Springer, Cham. PDF
2018
LoBue, V., Baker, L., & Thrasher, C. (2018). Through the eyes of a child: Preschoolers’ identification of emotional expressions from the Child Affective Facial Expression (CAFE) Set. Cognition & Emotion, 32, 1122-1130. PDF
Geerdts, M., Van de Walle, G. A., & LoBue, V. (2018). Using animals to teach children biology: Exploring the use of biological explanations in children’s anthropomorphic storybooks. In Marshall, P. J., & Brenneman, K. (Eds.), Young Children’s Developing Understanding of the Biological World. New York, NY: Routledge. PDF
2017
Baker, L. J., LoBue, V., Bonawitz, E., & Shafto, P. (2017) Towards automated classification of emotional facial expressions. Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. London, UK: Cognitive Science Society. PDF
Gao, X., LoBue, V., Irving, J., & Harvey, T. (2017). The effect of spatial frequency information and visual similarity in threat detection. Cognition & Emotion, 31, 912-922. PDF
LoBue, V., Buss, K. A., Taber-Thomas, B. C., & Pérez-Edgar, K. (2017). Developmental differences in infants’ attention to social and non-social threats. Infancy, 22, 403-415. PDF
Morales, S., Brown, K. M., Taber-Thomas, LoBue, V., Buss, K. A., & Perez-Edgar, K. E. (2017). Maternal anxiety predicts attentional bias towards threat in infancy. Emotion, 17, 874-883. PDF
Pérez-Edgar, K., Morales, S., LoBue, V., Taber-Thomas, B. C., Allen, K. M., Brown, K. M., & Buss, K. A. (2017). The impact of negative affect on attention patterns to threat across the first two years of life. Developmental Psychology, 53, 2219-2232. PDF
2016
Blacker, K., & LoBue, V. (2016). Behavioral avoidance of contagion in childhood. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 143, 162-170. PDF
Geerdts, M., Van de Walle, G., & LoBue, V. (2016). Learning about real animals from anthropomorphic media. Imagination, Cognition, and Personality, 36, 5-26. PDF
Geerdts, M., Van de Walle, G. A., & LoBue, V. (2016). Using animals to teach children biology: Exploring the use of biological explanations in children’s anthropomorphic storybooks. Early Education and Development, 27, 1237-1249. PDF
Joseph, C., LoBue, V., Rivera, L. M., Irving, J., Savoy, S., & Shiffrar, M. (2016). An attentional bias for thin bodies and its relation to body dissatisfaction. Body Image, 19, 216-223. PDF
LoBue, V. (2016). When is a face no longer a face? A problematic dichotomy in visual detection research. Emotion Review, 8, 250-257. PDF
Thrasher, C. & LoBue, V. (2016). Do infants find snakes aversive? Infants’ physiological responses to “fear-relevant” stimuli. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 142, 382-390. PDF
2015
Geerdts, M., Van de Walle, G., & LoBue, V. (2015). Daily animal exposure and children’s biological concepts. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 130, 132-146. PDF
Geerdts, M., Van de Walle, G., & LoBue, V. (2015). Parent-child conversations about animals in informal learning environments. Visitor Studies, 18, 39-63. PDF
LoBue, V. (2015). Behavioral evidence for a continuous approach to the perception of emotionally valenced stimuli: Commentary on Pessoa. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 38, e79, 28-29. PDF
LoBue, V. & Thrasher, C. (2015). The Child Affective Facial Expression (CAFE) Set: Validity and reliability from untrained adults. Frontiers in Emotion Science, 5. PDF
2014
Adolph, K. E., Kretch, K., & LoBue, V. (2014). Fear of heights in infants? Current Directions in Psychological Science, 23, 60-66. PDF
LoBue, V. (2014). Deconstructing the snake: The relative roles of perception, cognition, and emotion on threat detection. Emotion, 14, 701-711. PDF
LoBue, V. (2014). Measuring attentional biases for threat in children and adults. Journal of Visualized Experiments, 92, e52190. PDF. Accompanying video can be found here: http://www.jove.com/video/52190?status=a54196k
LoBue, V., & Matthews, K. (2014). The snake in the grass revisited: An experimental comparison of threat detection paradigms. Cognition & Emotion, 28, 22-35. PDF
LoBue, V., Matthews, K., Harvey, T., & Stark, S. L. (2014). What accounts for the rapid detection of threat? Evidence for an advantage in perceptual and behavioral responding from eye movements. Emotion, 14, 816-823. PDF
LoBue, V., Matthews, K., Harvey, T., & Thrasher, C. (2014). Pick on someone your own size: The detection of threatening facial expressions posed by both child and adult models. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 118, 134-142. PDF
LoBue, V., & Pérez-Edgar, K. (2014). Sensitivity to social and non-social threats in temperamentally shy children at-risk for anxiety. Developmental Science, 17, 239-247. PDF
2013
LoBue, V., & Rakison, D. (2013). What we fear most: A developmental advantage for threat-relevant stimuli. Developmental Review, 33, 285-303. PDF
DeLoache, J.S., LoBue, V., Vanderborght, M., & Chiong, C. (2013). On the validity and robustness of the scale error phenomenon in early childhood. Infant Behavior and Development, 36, 63-70. PDF
LoBue, V. (2013). What are we so afraid of? How early attention shapes our most common fears. Child Development Perspectives, 7, 38-42. PDF
LoBue, V., Bloom Pickard, M., Sherman, K., Axford, C., & DeLoache, J. S. (2013). Young children's interest in live animals. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 31, 57-69. PDF
2012
LoBue, V. (2012). Perceptual biases for threat. In G. W. Mills and S. J. Stone (Eds.), Psychology of Bias. Nova Science Publishers. PDF
2011
DeLoache, J. S., Pickard, M. B., & LoBue, V. (2011). How very young children think about animals. In P. McCardle, S. McCune, J. A. Griffin, & V. Maholmes (Eds.), How animals affect us: Examining the influence of human–animal interaction on child development and human health (pp. 85–99). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. PDF
LoBue, V., Coan, J., Thrasher, C., & DeLoache, J. S. (2011). Prefrontal asymmetry and parent-rated temperament in infants. PLoS One, 6 (7), e22694. PDF
LoBue, V., & DeLoache, J. S. (2011). Pretty in Pink: The early development of gender-stereotyped color preferences. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 29, 656-667. PDF
LoBue, V., & DeLoache, J. S. (2011). What so special about slithering serpents? Children and adults rapidly detect snakes based on their simple features. Visual Cognition, 19, 129-143. PDF
LoBue, V., Nishida, T., Chiong, C., DeLoache, J. S., & Haidt, J. (2011). When getting something good is bad: Even 3-year-olds react to inequity. Social Development, 20, 154-170. PDF
2010
LoBue, V., Rakison, D., & DeLoache, J. S. (2010). Threat perception across the lifespan: Evidence for multiple converging pathways. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 19, 375-379. PDF
LoBue, V. (2010). And along came a spider: Superior detection of spiders in children and adults. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 107, 59-66. PDF
LoBue, V. (2010). What’s so scary about needles and knives? Examining the role of experience in threat detection. Cognition and Emotion, 24, 80-87. PDF
LoBue, V., & DeLoache, J. S. (2010). Superior detection of threat-relevant stimuli in infancy. Developmental Science, 13, 221-228. PDF
LoBue, V., & Larson, C. L. (2010). What makes angry faces look so…angry? Examining visual attention to the shape of threat in children and adults. Visual Cognition, 18, 1165-1178. PDF
2009
DeLoache, J., & LoBue, V. (2009). The narrow fellow in the grass: Human infants associate snakes and fear. Developmental Science, 12, 201-207. PDF
LoBue, V. (2009). More than just a face in the crowd: Detection of emotional facial expressions in young children and adults. Developmental Science, 12, 305-313. PDF
LoBue., V. & DeLoache, J. S. (2009). On the detection of emotional facial expressions: Are girls really better than boys? Commentary on Virgil. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 32, 23-24. PDF
2008
LoBue, V. & DeLoache, J. S. (2008). Detecting the snake in the grass: Attention to fear-relevant stimuli by adults and young children. Psychological Science, 19, 284-289. PDF