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.
Gunnar received her PhD from Stanford University in 1978. She then did a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford Medical School, in Developmental Psychoneuroendocrinology. She has a BA in psychology from Mills College.[6]