Nancy Darling
{{Short description|American psychologist}}
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| education = BS, 1981, MS, 1987, PhD, developmental psychology, 1990, Cornell University
| thesis_title =Control beliefs during early adolescence: a comparison of the niche formation and socialization models of development
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| website = {{URL|nancydarling.org}}
| workplaces = Oberlin College
Bard College
Penn State University
Dickinson College
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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.
Early life and education
Darling is of German ancestry; her maternal grandparents arrived in the United States between World War I and World War II.{{cite news |title=It Takes A New Village |url=https://newspaperarchive.com/other-articles-clipping-may-08-2014-1906791/ |accessdate=August 11, 2020 |publisher=Elyria Chronicle Telegram |date=May 8, 2014 |location=Ohio|via=newspaperarchive.com}} She earned her Bachelor of Science degree, Master's degree, and PhD from Cornell University.{{cite web |title=Nancy Darling |url=https://www.oberlin.edu/nancy-darling |website=oberlin.edu |accessdate=August 7, 2020}} Upon completing her doctoral degree, she joined the faculty of psychology at Temple University for her post-doc fellowship until 1993.{{cite web |title=Nancy Darling CV |url=https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/5814839/curriculum-vitae-oberlin-college |website=yumpu.com |accessdate=August 25, 2020}}
Career
Darling joined the faculty at Dickinson College following her post-doc fellowship for two years before accepting a position at Penn State University (PSU). 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.{{cite web |title=Faculty honored for collaborative instructional, curricular innovation |url=https://www.psu.edu/ur/archives/intercom_1997/Sept18/news3.html |website=psu.edu |accessdate=August 26, 2020 |date=1997}} 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.{{cite web |last1=Irwin |first1=Dana |title=Study shows dating stressful for males |url=https://www.collegian.psu.edu/archives/article_54a42769-b47c-58e7-a99b-dde9e5f63845.html |website=collegian.psu.edu |accessdate=August 26, 2020 |date=December 8, 1999}} She left PSU in 2000 to accept an associate professor position with Bard College's psychology faculty. 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.{{cite journal |last1=Darling |first1=Nancy |last2=Cumsille |first2=Patricio |title=Theory, measurement, and methods in the study of family influences on adolescent smoking |journal=Addiction |date=May 2003 |volume=98 |issue=1 |pages=21–36 |doi=10.1046/j.1360-0443.98.s1.3.x |pmid=12752360 |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1046/j.1360-0443.98.s1.3.x |accessdate=August 26, 2020}} 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.{{cite web |last1=Chang |first1=JuJu |title=Why Do Kids Lie? |url=https://abcnews.go.com/amp/GMA/story?id=4277319&page=1 |website=abcnews.go.com |accessdate=August 26, 2020 |date=February 12, 2008}}
In 2005, Darling transferred to Oberlin College in Ohio to accept an associate professor position in their psychology department. While serving in this role, she was also appointed the newest editor-in-chief of the Journal of Adolescence.{{cite web |title=From the President |url=https://www.earaonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/eara_newsletter_may-2015.pdf |website=earaonline.org |accessdate=August 26, 2020 |date=May 2015}} 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.{{cite web |last1=Ulrich |first1=Erin |title=Psychology Students Develop Technology to Help Adolescents Manage Chronic Pain |url=https://www.oberlin.edu/news/psychology-students-develop-technology-help-adolescents-manage-chronic-pain |website=oberlin.edu |accessdate=August 26, 2020 |date=March 13, 2019}}
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Category:American academic journal editors
Category:Oberlin College faculty
Category:Pennsylvania State University faculty
Category:Dickinson College faculty
Category:Cornell University alumni
Category:American women psychologists
Category:21st-century American psychologists
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