Danielle Ann Young, Psy.D.

Education

Psy.D., Baylor University, 2016

M.S., Baylor University, 2013

B.A., University of North Carolina, 2008

Biography

Dr. Young earned her doctorate in clinical psychology from Baylor University and completed her clinical internship with the Texas Child Study Center at the University of Texas and Dell Children’s Medical Center in Austin, Texas. From 2016-2018, Dr. Young served as a Temporary Full-Time Lecturer in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at Baylor University and simultaneously saw patients at Waco Psychological Associates. Following these positions, Dr. Young transitioned to serving as an Associate Research Scientist within the Behavioral Medicine Lab at Baylor University and serving as an Adjunct Lecturer within the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience until 2024. Dr. Young joined the Baylor University faculty in 2025. 

Clinical and Research Interests

Dr. Young’s graduate clinical training and coursework spanned across the lifespan. During internship and community work, Dr. Young specialized in working with children, adolescents, and young adults. Her research interests focus broadly on topics related to stress and health. 

Representative Publications

**Cook, T.E., Fergus, T.A., Young, D.A., Williams, S.E., & Ginty, A.T. (2025). Stressor-evoked heart rate, perceived physiological arousal, and anxiety symptoms in young adults. Journal of Affective Disorders, 376, 454-462.  

**Tyra, A.T., Young, D.A., & Ginty, A.T. (2025). The impact of experimentally instructed suppression on cardiovascular habituation during repeated stress. Biological Psychology, 196, 109007. 

***Moore, M.M., **Tyra, A.T., Young, D.A., & Ginty, A.T. (2023). Cardiovascular stress reactivity, habituation, and adiposity. Psychophysiology, e14232. 

***O’Riordan, A., Young, D.A., & Ginty, A.T. (2023). Disordered eating is associated with blunted blood pressure reactivity and poorer habituation to acute psychological stress. Biological Psychology, 179, 108553. 

***O’Riordan, A., Young, D.A., & Ginty, A.T. (2023). Physiological reactivity and habituation to acute psychological stress: the influence of trait extraversion. Biological Psychology, 181, 108599. 

***O’Riordan, A., Young, D.A., **Tyra, A.T., & Ginty, A.T. (2023). Extraversion is associated with lower cardiovascular activity to acute psychological stress. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 189, 20-29. 

**Tyra, A.T., Young, D.A., & Ginty, A.T. (2023). Emotion regulation tendencies and cardiovascular responses to repeated acute psychological stress. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 194, 112261.

Ginty, A.T., Oosterhoff, B.J., Young, D.A., & Williams, S.E. (2022). Effects of arousal reappraisal on the anxiety responses to stress: Breaking the cycle of negative physiological arousal interpretation. British Journal of Psychology, 113, 131-152. 

Ginty, A.T., **Tyra, A.T., Young, D.A., Brindle, R.C., de Rooij, S.R., & Williams, S.E. (2022). Cardiovascular reactions to acute psychological stress and academic achievement. Psychophysiology, 59, e14064. 

Ginty, A.T., Young, D.A., **Tyra, A.T., **Hurley, P.E., Brindle, R.C., & Williams, S.E. (2021). Heart rate reactivity to acute psychological stress predicts higher levels of PTSD symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic. Psychosomatic Medicine, 83, 351-357. 

**Tyra, A.T., *Cook, T.E., Young, D.A., **Hurley, P.E., Oosterhoff, B.J., John-Henderson, N.A., & Ginty, A.T. (2021). Adverse childhood experiences, sex, and cardiovascular habituation to repeated stress. Biological Psychology, 165, 108175. 

Ginty, A.T., **Hurley, P.E., & Young, D.A. (2020). Diminished cardiovascular stress reactivity is associated with higher levels of behavioral disengagement. Biological Psychology, 155, 107933. 

Tyra, A.T., *Soto, S.M., Young, D.A., & Ginty, A.T. (2020). Frequency and perceptions of life stress are associated with reduced cardiovascular stress-response adaptation. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 157, 51-60. 

Limbers, C.A., Larson, M., Young, D.A., & Simmons, S. (2019). The Emotional Eating Scale Adapted for Children and Adolescents (EES-C): Development and preliminary validation of a short-form. Eating Disorders, 28(3), 213-229. 

Limbers, C.A., Young, D.A., Jernigan, S., Bryant, W., & Stephen, M. (2017).  A comparison between objective measures and parental behavioral rating scales of memory and attention in pediatric endocrinology patients. Applied Neuropsychology: Child, 6, 172-119.

Limbers, C.A., Young, D.A., & Beaujean, A. (2016). The Emotional Eating Scale adapted for use in children and adolescents: Factorial invariance across adolescent males and females. Eating Behaviors, 22, 164-169.

*** = undergraduate student, ** = graduate student, * = postdoctoral fellow