Megan R. Gunnar is an American child psychologist, currently Regents Professor and McKnight University Professor at

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and an Elected Fellow of the

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. 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. She was elected a member of the

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in 2022. She was awarded the

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in 2021.

Education

Gunnar received her PhD from

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in 1978. She then did a postdoctoral fellowship at

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, in Developmental Psychoneuroendocrinology. She has a BA in psychology from Mills College.

References

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