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Nancy Darling Ph.D.

About

Nancy Darling, Ph.D., is a Professor of Psychology at Oberlin College and founder of 1step2life.com, an app supporting adolescents living with chronic pain and their families. For the past 30 years, she has studied how adolescents shape and are shaped by their social relationships. She has authored more than 60 scientific papers on teens' relationships with parents, friends, romantic partners, and unrelated adults and has studied families in the U.S. and in Chile, the Philippines, Italy, Sweden, Uganda, and Japan. She has presented hundreds of papers at scientific conferences and served on the Executive Council of the Society for Research on Adolescence. Her current work focuses on how, why, and when adolescents lie to their parents, when it matters, and how parents can help shape better relationships with their kids and keep them out of trouble. She also has a strong focus on scientific methodology and computational modeling.

She is the founder of 1step2life, an app that supports people living with chronic pain and their caregivers.

Books by Nancy Darling Ph.D.
Recent Posts
My Baby Sleeps a Lot. Why Am I So Tired?
Infants and their parents have curiously mismatched sleep cycles. Although babies sleep twice as much as their parents, it is bundled into short snatches an hour or two at a time.
The Joy of Dogs in Unexpected Places

We pass dogs on the street all the time, usually with barely a glance. What makes them special in a hospital, school, or workplace?

We pass dogs on the street all the time, usually with barely a glance. What makes them special in a hospital, school, or workplace?

How Parents Can Help Kids Feel Less Lonely

Parents can help kids overcome their friendship skill gaps and form meaningful relationships.

Parents can help kids overcome their friendship skill gaps and form meaningful relationships.

Effective Classroom Control: It Works In Families, Too

Watching teachers keep excited first graders calm and on task reminded me of how important it is to communicate clear expectations to children and to reward good behavior.

Watching teachers keep excited first graders calm and on task reminded me of how important it is to communicate clear expectations to children and to reward good behavior.

Could Psychology Make ChatGPT Irresistibly Persuasive?

ChatGPT told me how it could use psychology to write so convincingly that people would find it irresistible. But it repeatedly cited non-existent research.

ChatGPT told me how it could use psychology to write so convincingly that people would find it irresistible. But it repeatedly cited non-existent research.

Teenage Mental Health: This Time, the Crisis Isn't Hyped

The steep decline in adolescent mental health began in 2011. Unlike most hype about adolescents, this crisis is real, sobering, and should concern everyone.

The steep decline in adolescent mental health began in 2011. Unlike most hype about adolescents, this crisis is real, sobering, and should concern everyone.

Psychology Has a Language Problem, and It Could Hurt Clients

When clinicians use technical language that wounds like everyday speech, they can misunderstand their clients and their clients can misunderstand them.

When clinicians use technical language that wounds like everyday speech, they can misunderstand their clients and their clients can misunderstand them.