Lisa Gatzke-Kopp‘s research focus is on the development of emotional and behavioral problems in childhood. She is interested in the neurobiological mechanisms that underlie emotion regulation, impulsivity and decision making, as well as examining how environmental and experiential factors impact neurobiological development. She also is involved in several collaborative projects aimed at incorporating knowledge from basic psychophysiological research into preventive-intervention programs.
By focusing on basic mechanisms of behavior problems, she aims to inform and evaluate both universal and targeted prevention programming. She collaborates extensively with prevention researchers with interests in both school and family contexts. Her research incorporates a wide range of techniques in examining neurobiological function including autonomic (ECG, IMP, EDA); central (EEG, ERP, fMRI), and peripheral (genetic, endocrine) measures.
For additional information about Dr. Gatzke-Kopp, please visit her Department of Human and Family Studies web page or view her CV.
Contact Information
316E BBH Building
University Park, PA 16802
814-867-2371
lmk18@psu.edu
Lisa Gatzke-Kopp‘s research focus is on the development of emotional and behavioral problems in childhood. She is interested in the neurobiological mechanisms that underlie emotion regulation, impulsivity and decision making, as well as examining how environmental and experiential factors impact neurobiological development. She also is involved in several collaborative projects aimed at incorporating knowledge from basic psychophysiological research into preventive-intervention programs.
By focusing on basic mechanisms of behavior problems, she aims to inform and evaluate both universal and targeted prevention programming. She collaborates extensively with prevention researchers with interests in both school and family contexts. Her research incorporates a wide range of techniques in examining neurobiological function including autonomic (ECG, IMP, EDA); central (EEG, ERP, fMRI), and peripheral (genetic, endocrine) measures.
For additional information about Dr. Gatzke-Kopp, please visit her Department of Human and Family Studies web page or view her CV.
Contact Information
316E BBH Building
University Park, PA 16802
814-867-2371
lmk18@psu.edu
Family Life Project 
Genes, Environments, and Experiences in the Phenotypic Development of Cost Discounting and High-Risk Decision Making 
An Epidemiological and Longitudinal Study of Rural Child Literacy Trajectories (Family Life Project) 
Early Life Stress and the Environmental Origins of Disease: A Population-based Prospective Longitudinal Study of Children in Rural Poverty (Family Life Project) (ECHO) 
Stress, Self-regulation, and Psychopathology in Middle Childhood (Family Life Project)
- Father-child physiological concordance on two timescales is differentially associated with paternal characteristics
Zhang, X., Gatzke-Kopp, L. M., Chen, M. Cole, P. M., & Ram, N. (2022). Psychophysiology.
- Integrating dynamic and developmental time scales: Emotion-specific autonomic coordination predicts baseline functioning over time
Fry, C.M., Ram, N., & Gatzke-Kopp, L.M. (2022). International Journal of Psychophysiology, 171.
- Early executive and school functioning: Protective roles of home environment by income
Murphy, Y. E., Zhang, X., & Gatzke-Kopp, L. (2022). Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology. Advance online publication. >
- Developmental changes in external and internal performance monitoring across middle childhood: an ERP study
Lees, T., Fry, C.M., Terrel, S., Jetha, M.K., Segalowitz, S.J., & Gatzke-Kopp, L.M. (2021). International Journal of Psychophysiology, 169.
- Association between dynamic parasympathetic reactivity to frustration and children’s social success with peers in kindergarten
Fry, C.M., Gatzke-Kopp, L.M. (2021). Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology.
- Association between EEG asymmetry and the error-related negativity across middle childhood
Lees, T., Fry, C.M., Jetha, M.K., Segalowitz, S.J., & Gatzke-Kopp, L.M. (2021). Biological Psychology, 163.
- Proximity to sources of airborne lead is associated with reductions in children's executive function in the first four years of life
Gatzke-Kopp, L.M., Warkentein, S., Willoughby, M. Fowler, C., Folch, D.C., Blair, C. (2021). . Health & Place.
- Predictors of developmental patterns of obesity in young children
O’Connor, T., Williams, J., Blair, C., Kopp, L., Francis, L., & Willoughby, M. (2020). Frontiers Pediatrics, 8(109).
- Parental support of self-regulation among children at risk for externalizing symptoms: Developmental trajectories of physiological regulation and behavioral adjustment
Zhang, X., Gatzke-Kopp, L.M., Fosco, G.M., & Bierman, K.L. (2020). Developmental Psychology, 56, 528-540.
- Association between environmental tobacco smoke exposure across the first four years of life and manifestation of externalizing behavior problems in school‐aged children
Gatzke-Kopp, L., Willoughby, M. T., Warkentien, S., Petrie, D., Mills-Koonce, R., & Blair, C. (2019). The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry (e-pub ahead of publication)
- Magnitude and chronicity of smoke exposure across infancy and early childhood in a sample of low income children
Gatzke-Kopp, L. M., Willoughby, M. T., Warkentien, S. M., O’Connor, T., Granger, D., & Blair, C. (2019). Nicotine and Tobacco Research, 21, 1665-1672.
- Children's sensitivity to cost and reward in decision making across distinct domains of probability, effort, and delay
Gatzke-Kopp, L. M., Ram, N., Lydon-Staley, D. M., & DuPuis, D. (2018). Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 31, 12-24.
- Emotional reactivity, behavior problems, and social adjustment at school entry in a high-risk sample
Kalvin, C. B., Bierman, K., & Gatzke-Kopp, L. M. (2016). Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 44, 1527-1541.
- Research and policy on disability: Linking special education to developmental science
Farmer, T. W., Gatzke-Kopp, L. M., Lee, D. L., Dawes, M., & Talbott, E. (2016). Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 3, 138-145.
- Diversity and representation: Key Issues for psychophysiological science
Gatzke-Kopp, L. M. (2016, In Press). Psychophysiology.
