About
Stacey N. Doan is a developmental psychobiologist who studies how children and families build lives that work — even when the conditions are hard. Her research traces the pathways between early experience, stress physiology, and long-term health, asking not just whether people survive adversity but what it costs them when they do, and how relationships, culture, and context change the equation.
She is the Norwood and Frances Berger Professor of Psychology, Business and Society at Claremont McKenna College and directs the Berger Institute for Individual and Social Development, where her lab — the Applied Mind and Health Lab — investigates resilience, emotion, and physiological adaptation across development. Trained at Cornell, she has published over 100 articles in leading journals across developmental science, psychology, and health, with funding from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and private foundations. Her book Nature Meets Nurture: Science-Based Strategies for Raising Resilient Kids was published by the American Psychological Association in 2022.
When she's not in the lab, she's running marathons, reading widely, thinking slowly, feeding people, and raising two humans of her own.
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