Biography:Koraly Pérez-Edgar

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Short description: Developmental psychologist
Koraly Pérez-Edgar
OccupationMcCourtney Professor of Child Studies and Professor of Psychology
Academic background
Alma materDartmouth College; Harvard University
Academic work
InstitutionsPennsylvania State University

Koraly Elisa Pérez-Edgar is a developmental psychologist who studies the temperament of young children and connections between temperament, anxiety disorders, and other forms of psychopathology. She is known for her studies of shy children[1] who may develop behavioral inhibition or social anxiety.[2]

Pérez-Edgar is a McCourtney Professor of Child Studies and Professor of Psychology at Pennsylvania State University[3] where she directs the Cognition, Affect, and Temperament Lab.[4] Pérez-Edgar is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Developmental Psychology.[5]

Biography

Pérez-Edgar earned her AB in Psychology at Dartmouth College in 1995, where she conducted research under the supervision Alfonso Caramazza. Pérez-Edgar continued her studies at Harvard University, where she received her master's degree (1998) and Ph.D. (2001) in Psychology. Her dissertation titled "Attentional Control in Emotional Contexts: The Potential Role of Temperament" was supervised by Jerome Kagan.[6] She conducted post-doctoral research with Nathan A. Fox at the University of Maryland, where they used electrophysiology to study children's responses to emotion words[7] and emotionally charged conditions.[8]

Before moving to Penn State in 2011, Pérez-Edgar was part of the faculty at George Mason University (2006-2011).[9] In 2021, Pérez-Edgar received Penn State's 2021 Graduate Faculty Teaching Award in recognition of outstanding teaching performance and advising of graduate students.[10] Her research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health.[11]

Research

Pérez-Edgar studies the temperament and emotional development of young children. She has taken a variety of approaches to find explanations for social anxiety and other behavioral difficulties that children encounter, and how such difficulties may be related to differences in parenting styles and other external factors.[12] Pérez-Edgar and her colleagues have documented atypical attentional biases in young children with behavioral inhibition who tend to withdraw from social situations.[13] These children are at heightened risk of developing chronic anxiety and other forms of psychopathology.[14]

In a randomized controlled trial involving children with symptoms of anxiety, Pérez-Edgar and her colleagues found evidence that a treatment to modify attentional biases was effective in reducing the number and severity of anxiety symptoms as compared to a placebo condition.[15]

Books

  • Pérez-Edgar, K., & Fox, N. A. (Eds.). (2018). Behavioral inhibition: Integrating theory, research, and clinical perspectives. Springer International Publishing.
  • LoBue, V., Pérez-Edgar, K., & Buss, K. A. (Eds.). (2019). Handbook of emotional development. Springer.

Representative publications

  • Chronis-Tuscano, A., Degnan, K. A., Pine, D. S., Perez-Edgar, K., Henderson, H. A., Diaz, Y., Raggi, V. L., & Fox, N. A. (2009). Stable Early Maternal Report of Behavioral Inhibition Predicts Lifetime Social Anxiety Disorder in Adolescence. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 48(9), 928–935. https://doi.org/10.1097/chi.0b013e3181ae09df
  • Eldar, S., Apter, A., Lotan, D., Pérez-Edgar, K., Naim, R., Fox, N. A., ... Bar-Haim, Y. (2012). Attention Bias Modification Treatment for Pediatric Anxiety Disorders: A Randomized Controlled Trial. American Journal of Psychiatry, 169(2), 213–230. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2011.11060886
  • McDermott, J. M., Perez-Edgar, K., Henderson, H. A., Chronis-Tuscano, A., Pine, D. S., & Fox, N. A. (2009). A History of Childhood Behavioral Inhibition and Enhanced Response Monitoring in Adolescence Are Linked to Clinical Anxiety. Biological Psychiatry, 65(5), 445–448. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2008.10.043
  • Pérez-Edgar, K., & Fox, N. A. (2005). Temperament and Anxiety Disorders. Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 14(4), 681–706. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chc.2005.05.008
  • Pérez-Edgar, K., Bar-Haim, Y., McDermott, J. M., Chronis-Tuscano, A., Pine, D. S., & Fox, N. A. (2010). Attention biases to threat and behavioral inhibition in early childhood shape adolescent social withdrawal. Emotion, 10(3), 349–357. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0018486 ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌

References

  1. ↑ Moyer, Melinda Wenner (2020-04-15). "How to Support Your Shy Kid" (in en-US). The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. https://www.nytimes.com/article/kids-shyness-guide.html. 
  2. ↑ "Profile: Koraly Pérez-Edgar, PhD, Developmental Psychologist". https://www.apa.org/education-career/guide/paths/perez-edgar. 
  3. ↑ "Koraly Perez-Edgar, Ph.D. — Department of Psychology". https://psych.la.psu.edu/directory/kxp24. 
  4. ↑ "Cognition, Affect, and Temperament Lab" (in en-US). http://www.catlabpsu.com/. 
  5. ↑ "Koraly Pérez-Edgar, PhD, Editor in Chief, Developmental Psychology". https://www.apa.org/pubs/highlights/editor-spotlight/dev-perez-edgar. 
  6. ↑ "Attentional control in emotional contexts: The potential role of temperament - ProQuest" (in en). https://www.proquest.com/docview/304697330. 
  7. ↑ Pérez-Edgar, Koraly; Fox, Nathan A. (2003-06-01). "Individual differences in children's performance during an emotional Stroop task: A behavioral and electrophysiological study" (in en). Brain and Cognition. Affective Neuroscience 52 (1): 33–51. doi:10.1016/S0278-2626(03)00007-1. ISSN 0278-2626. PMID 12812803. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0278262603000071. 
  8. ↑ Perez-Edgar, Koraly; Fox, Nathan A. (2005-02-01). "A Behavioral and Electrophysiological Study of Children's Selective Attention Under Neutral and Affective Conditions". Journal of Cognition and Development 6 (1): 89–118. doi:10.1207/s15327647jcd0601_6. ISSN 1524-8372. https://doi.org/10.1207/s15327647jcd0601_6. 
  9. ↑ "ORCID". https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4051-9563. 
  10. ↑ "Pérez-Edgar named recipient of 2021 Graduate Faculty Teaching Award | Social Science Research Institute". https://ssri.psu.edu/news/perez-edgar-named-recipient-2021-graduate-faculty-teaching-award. 
  11. ↑ "Penn State receives a five-year, nearly $6 million grant to study factors promoting early childhood development | Social Science Research Institute". https://ssri.psu.edu/news/penn-state-receives-five-year-nearly-6-million-grant-study-factors-promoting-early-childhood. 
  12. ↑ Rankin Williams, Lela; Degnan, Kathryn A.; Perez-Edgar, Koraly E.; Henderson, Heather A.; Rubin, Kenneth H.; Pine, Daniel S.; Steinberg, Laurence; Fox, Nathan A. (2009-11-01). "Impact of Behavioral Inhibition and Parenting Style on Internalizing and Externalizing Problems from Early Childhood through Adolescence" (in en). Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology 37 (8): 1063–1075. doi:10.1007/s10802-009-9331-3. ISSN 1573-2835. PMID 19521761. PMC 2791524. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-009-9331-3. 
  13. ↑ Pérez-Edgar, Koraly; Reeb-Sutherland, Bethany C.; McDermott, Jennifer Martin; White, Lauren K.; Henderson, Heather A.; Degnan, Kathryn A.; Hane, Amie A.; Pine, Daniel S. et al. (2011-08-01). "Attention Biases to Threat Link Behavioral Inhibition to Social Withdrawal over Time in Very Young Children" (in en). Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology 39 (6): 885–895. doi:10.1007/s10802-011-9495-5. ISSN 1573-2835. PMID 21318555. PMC 3756613. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-011-9495-5. 
  14. ↑ McDermott, Jennifer M.; Perez-Edgar, Koraly; Henderson, Heather A.; Chronis-Tuscano, Andrea; Pine, Daniel S.; Fox, Nathan A. (2009-03-01). "A History of Childhood Behavioral Inhibition and Enhanced Response Monitoring in Adolescence Are Linked to Clinical Anxiety" (in English). Biological Psychiatry 65 (5): 445–448. doi:10.1016/j.biopsych.2008.10.043. ISSN 0006-3223. PMID 19108817. PMC 2788124. https://www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S0006-3223(08)01392-9/abstract. 
  15. ↑ Eldar, Sharon; Apter, Alan; Lotan, Daniel; Edgar, Koraly Perez; Naim, Reut; Fox, Nathan A.; Pine, Daniel S.; Bar-Haim, Yair (2012-02-01). "Attention Bias Modification Treatment for Pediatric Anxiety Disorders: A Randomized Controlled Trial". American Journal of Psychiatry 169 (2): 213–230. doi:10.1176/appi.ajp.2011.11060886. ISSN 0002-953X. PMID 22423353. 

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