Megan R. Gunnar is an American child psychologist, currently Regents Professor and McKnight University Professor at University of Minnesota and an Elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.[1][2][3] In 2021, she will receive the James McKeen Cattell Lifetime Achievement Award for Applied Research from the Association for Psychological Science (APS). She is the main investigator for the International Adoption Project.[4] She was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2022.[5] She was awarded the James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award in 2021.
Education
editGunnar received her PhD from Stanford University in 1978. She then did a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford Medical School, in Developmental Psychoneuroendocrinology.[4] She has a BA in psychology from Mills College.[6]
References
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- ^ "Newly Elected Fellows". amacad.org. Retrieved April 14, 2017.
- ^ a b "Megan Gunnar, Ph.D. – The Gunnar Laboratory for Developmental Psychobiology Research". Retrieved 2021-02-15.
- ^ "2022 NAS Election".
- ^ "Megan R. Gunnar". CIFAR. Retrieved 2021-02-15.
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