College of Education and Human Development

Institute of Child Development

Ka I Ip

  • Pronouns: he, him, his

  • Assistant Professor

Ka I Ip

Areas of interest

Adolescents and youth; Cognitive development; Culture, cross-culture; Developmental neuroscience; Early childhood; Executive function; Families and parenting; Hormones and behavior; Infant and early childhood mental health; Prevention and intervention; Resilience; Social and emotional development; Stress and maltreatment

Degrees

Susan Nolen-Hoeksema Postdoctoral Fellow. Yale University
PhD University of Michigan
MA University of Michigan
BA University of Michigan 
AA El Camino College

Biography

My research focuses on typical and atypical emotion regulation development, examining the ways that cultural contexts shape emotion regulation, and how early adversity, structural racism and social determinants of health may “get under the

skin” to confer risk and resilience for developmental psychopathology and health disparities, especially among community of color and children of immigrants. As a first-generation college, immigrant, and scholar from the BIPOC community, my career goal is to use this knowledge to promote cultural diversity and inclusion, to inform policy that aims to reduce social inequalities and advance health equity, and to optimize “sensitive window” of preventive interventions. 

I’m the director of the D.A.N.C.E. (Development, Affective Neuroscience, Culture and Environment) Lab studying cultural diversity, children and adolescents’ mental health and the developing brain using a bioecological framework. My lab employs a variety of methods, including the use of longitudinal design, cross-cultural and behavioral experiments, ecological momentary assessment, neuroendocrine assays (cortisol), and neuroimaging tools (fNIRS, EEG/ERP and fMRI). 

Our current funded projects include first integrating the fields of social epidemiology, cultural and developmental psychology, and neuroscience to elucidate the bioecological and developmental pathways linking structural racism and neighborhood inequalities to risk for developing stress-related mental health problems, including both substance use and mood disorders, among adolescents. Second, we are interested to better understand different features (e.g., type, timing, chronicity, appraisal) of stressors that individuals with marginalized identities exposed to in their daily life, and their intergenerational consequences on children’s cognitive and socio-emotional development. Third, we examine how contexts and cultural diversity influence the development of executive function and emotion regulation.

Advising Availability

Please note that for the 2024 admissions cycle Dr. Ip is looking to take on new Ph.D. students as their primary advisor. Please reach out to Dr. Ip via email if you are interested in learning more.

Publications

Sim L., Ip, K. I, Ascigil, E., Edelstein, R., & Lee, F., (2023). Cross-cultural differences in supportive responses to positive event disclosure. Journal of Positive Psychology.

Wen, W., Ip, K. I, Lee. S., Lopez. B., Kamata. A., Lui. P., & Kim, S. Y. (2023). Acculturation and daily smoking behavior among Mexican American youth: The moderating role of executive function. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment.

Lee., S., Bernstein, B., Ip, K. I, & Olson S. L. (2022). Developmental Cascade Models linking Contextual Risks, Parenting, and Internalizing Symptoms: A 17-year Longitudinal Study from Early Childhood to Emerging Adulthood. Development and Psychopathology.

Schroder, H+., Ip, K. I+, Hruschak, J., Liu, Y., Hall, M., Horbatch, F., Mannella, K, Muzik, M, Rosenblum, K., Moser, J., & Fitzgerald, KD. (2022). Targeting cognitive control to reduce anxiety in very young children: A proof-of-concept study. Depression and Anxiety.

(+ denotes co-first author with equal contribution)

Ip, K. I, Sisk, L., Horien, C., Conley, M., Rapuano, K., Rosenberg M., Greene, A., Scheinost, D., Constable, R. T., Casey, B. J., Baskin-Sommers, A., & Gee, D. G. (2022). Associations among household and neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantages, resting-state frontoamygdala connectivity and internalizing symptoms in youth. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.

** Selected as the Office of Health Equity Research Award for Yale Research Excellent Finalist

Lawler, J. M., Hruschak, J., Ip, K. I, Muzik, M., Fitzgerald, K. & Rosenblum, K. (2022). Self-regulation and psychopathology in young children. Child Psychiatry & Human Development.

Demidenko, M. I., Kelly, D. P., Hardi, F. A., Ip, K. I., Lee, S., Becker, H., Hong, S., Thijssen, S., Luciana, M., & Keating, D. P. (2022). Mediating effect of pubertal stages on the family environment and neurodevelopment: An open-data replication and multiverse analysis of an ABCD Study®. Neuroimage: Reports, 2(4), 100133. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ynirp.2022.100133

Ip, K. I, Felt, B., Wang, L., Karasawa., M., Hirabayashi, M., Kazama, M., Olson, S., Miller A., & Tardif T. (2021). Are preschoolers’ neurobiological stress system responsive to culturally relevant contexts? Psychological Science, 32(7):998-1010. doi: 10.1177/0956797621994233.

Ip, K. I, Miller A., Karasawa., M., Hirabayashi, H., Wang, L., Olson, S., Kazama, M., Kessler, D., & Tardif T. (2021). Emotion expression and regulation in three cultures: U.S., Chinese and Japanese preschoolers’ reactions to disappointment. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 201, 104972. doi: 10.1016/j.jecp.2020.104972.

Ip, K. I, McCrohan M*, Muzik, M., Fitzgerald KD, Morelen, D & Rosenblum, K (2021). Maternal emotion regulation difficulties and the intergenerational transmission of risk. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 30, 2367–2378. doi: 10.1007/s10826-021-02019-w.

Kim, S. Y., Song, J., Chen, S., Wen, W., Zhang, M., Yan, J., Lopez, B. G., Arredondo, M., & Ip, K. I (2021). Culturally relevant stressors as moderators of intergenerational transmission of mother-adolescent executive function in Mexican Immigrant Families. Cognitive Research Principles and Implications.

Song, J., Ip, K. I, Yan, J., Lui, P. P, Kamata, A., & Kim, S. Y. (2021). Pathways from Early Experiences of Ethnic Discrimination to Underage Alcohol Use. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology. doi: 10.1037/pha0000504.

Demidenko, M., Ip, K. I, Kelly, D., Constante, K., Goetschius L., & Keating D (2021). Ecological stress, amygdala reactivity, and internalizing problems in preadolescence: Is parenting a buffer? Cortex, 140, 128-144. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2021.02.032

Horbatch, F., Hruschak, J., Hall, M., Mannella, K., Synger, A., Ip, K. I, Liu, Y., Sadlier, R., Gillett, C., Moser, J., Muzik, M., Rosenblum, K. & Fitzgerald K. (2021). Conducting EEG research in clinically anxious preschoolers. Developmental Psychobiology, 63, e22183.  doi. 10.1002/dev.22183.

Lawler, J. M., Hruschak, J., Aho, K., Lui, Y., Ip, K. I, Lajines-O’Neil, R., Rosenblum, K., Muzik, M., & Fitzgerald, K. (2020). The error related negativity as a neuromarker of risk or resilience in young children. Brain and Behavior, 11(3), e02008. doi: 10.1002/brb3.2008

Yi, S., Chang, E.C., Chang, O., D., Sweard, N. J., McAvoy, L. B., Krause, E. R., Schaffer, M. R., Novak, C. J., Ip, K. I, & Hirsch, J. K. (2020). Coping as a predictor of suicide risk and protection in college students: Does being optimistic still matter? Crises: The Journal of Crises Intervention and Suicide Prevention. doi: 10.1027/0227-5910/a000662.

Ip, K. I, Jester, J., Sameroff, A., & Olson, S. (2019). Linking Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) constructs to developmental psychopathology: The role of self-regulation and emotion knowledge in the development of internalizing and externalizing growth trajectories from ages 3 to 10. Development and Psychopathology, 31(4), 1557-1574. doi:10.1017/S0954579418001323. 

Ip, K. I, Liu Y, Moser J, Mannella K, Hruschak J, Bilek E, Muzik M, Rosenblum K, Fitzgerald K. (2019). Moderation of the relationship between the error-related negativity and anxiety by age and gender in young children: A preliminary investigation. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 39, 100702. doi: 10.1016/j.dcn.2019.100702.

Ip, K. I, Jester, J., Puttler, L., & Zucker, R. (2019). Alcoholic family marital heterogeneity aggregates different child behavior problems both pre- and postseparation. Development and Psychopathology, 31(2), 771-788. doi:10.1017/S0954579418000561.

Olson, S. L., Lansford, J. E., Evans, E. M., Blumstein, K. P. & Ip, K. I (2019). Parents’ ethnotheories of maladaptive behavior in young children. Child Development Perspectives, 13: 153-158. doi:10.1111/cdep.12330. 

Ip, K. I, Marks, R., Hsu L. S., Desai, N., Kuan J.K., Tardif, T., & Kovelman, I (2019). Morphological Processing in Chinese Engages Left Temporal Regions. Brain and Language, 199, 104696. doi: 10.1016/j.bandl.2019.104696.

Olson, S. L., Ip, K. I, Gonzalez, R., Beyers-Carlson, E. E. A., & Volling, B. L. (2019). Development of externalizing symptoms across the toddler period: The critical role of older siblings. Journal of Family Psychology, 34(2), 165. doi: 10.1037/fam0000581. 

Lee, S, Chang, H, Ip, K. I, Olson, SL. (2019). Early socialization of hostile attribution bias: The roles of parental attributions, parental discipline, and child attributes. Social Development, 28: 549– 563. doi: 10.1111/sode.12349.

Vlisides, P., Li, D., Zierau, M., Lapointe, A., Ip, K. I, McKinney, A., Mashour, G., (2019). Dynamic Cortical Connectivity during General Anesthesia in Surgical Patients. Anesthesiology, 130(6):885-897. doi: 10.1097/ALN.0000000000002677.

Zierau, M., Li, D., LaPointe, A., Ip, K. I, Mckinney, A., Puglia, M., & Vlisides, P. (2019). Cortical oscillations and connectivity during postoperative recovery. Journal of Neurosurgical Anesthesiology, 33(1), 87-91. doi:10.1097/ANA.0000000000000636.

Li, D., Puglia, M., Lapointe, A., Ip, K. I, Zierau, M., McKinney, A., & Vlisides P. (2019). Age-related changes in cortical connectivity during surgical anesthesia. Frontier in Aging Neuroscience, 11, 371. doi: 10.3389/fnagi.2019.00371.

Gach E J.*, Ip, K. I, Sameroff, A. J. & Olson S. L. (2018). Early cumulative risk predicts externalizing behavior at age 10: The mediating role of adverse parenting. Journal of Family Psychology, 32(1), 92- 102. doi:10.1037/fam0000360.

McGinnis EW, McGinnis RS, Hruschak J, Bilek E, Ip, K. I, Morlen D, et al. (2018) Wearable sensors detect childhood internalizing disorders during mood induction task. PLoS ONE, 13(4): e0195598. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0195598.

Nigg, J. T., Jester, J. M., Stavro, G. M., Ip, K. I, Puttler, L.I., & Zucker, R.A. (2017). Specificity of executive functioning and processing speed problems in common psychopathology. Neuropsychology, 31(4), 448 - 466. doi:10.1037/neu0000343.

Ip, K. I, Hsu, L. S. J., Arredondo, M. M., Tardif, T., & Kovelman, I. (2017). Brain bases of morphological processing for learning to read in Chinese-English bilingual children. Developmental Science, 20(5). doi: 10.1111/desc.12449. 

Hsu, L. S., Ip, K. I, Tardif, T., & Kovelman, I. (2016). Simultaneous acquisition of English and Chinese impacts children’s reliance on vocabulary and phonological awareness for reading in English. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 1-17. doi: 10.1080/13670050.2016.1246515.

Ugolini, M., Wagley, N., Ip, K. I, Arredondo, M., Hsu, L. S., & Kovelman, I. (2016). In young readers, the left hemisphere supports the link between temporal processing and phonological awareness. Speech, Language and Hearing, 19(1), 17 – 26. doi: 10.1080/2050571X.2015.1101894.

Arredondo, M. M., Ip, K. I, Shih Ju Hsu, L., Tardif, T., & Kovelman, I. (2015). Brain bases of morphological processing in young children. Human Brain Mapping, 36(8), 2890-2900. doi: 10.1002/hbm.22815