Nancy Darling | |
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Academic background | |
Education | BS, 1981, MS, 1987, PhD, developmental psychology, 1990, Cornell University |
Thesis | Control beliefs during early adolescence: a comparison of the niche formation and socialization models of development (1990) |
Academic work | |
Institutions | Oberlin College Bard College Penn State University Dickinson College |
Website | nancydarling |
Nancy Ellen Darling is an American psychologist. She is the William and Jeannette Smith Chair of psychology at Oberlin College,editor-in-chief of the Journal of Adolescence, and founder of 1step2life.
Darling is of German ancestry;her maternal grandparents arrived in the United States between World War I and World War II. [1] She earned her Bachelor of Science degree,Master's degree,and PhD from Cornell University. [2] Upon completing her doctoral degree,she joined the faculty of psychology at Temple University for her post-doc fellowship until 1993. [3]
Darling joined the faculty at Dickinson College following her post-doc fellowship for two years before accepting a position at Penn State University (PSU). [3] While at PSU,she collaborated with Linda Caldwell to develop the "Structure of Adolescent Leisure" project,which allowed undergraduates to enter multi-disciplinary field research. [4] Darling later authored a study published in the Journal of Youth and Adolescence which concluded that young boys were more vulnerable when it comes to dating. [5] She left PSU in 2000 to accept an associate professor position with Bard College's psychology faculty. [3] During her short tenure at Bard,she co-published Theory,measurement,and methods in the study of family influences on adolescent smoking with Patricio Cumsille through the Addiction journal. [6] She also continued her focus on teenagers and lying and conducted a study which found that 98 percent of teenagers have lied to their parents. [7]
In 2005,Darling transferred to Oberlin College in Ohio to accept an associate professor position in their psychology department. [3] While serving in this role,she was also appointed the newest editor-in-chief of the Journal of Adolescence. [8] In 2019,Darling and her research team received a $20,000 grant towards moving the web-based app 1step2life,which helps adolescents manage chronic pain,for purchase through the iTunes App Store. [9]
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