Project STRIVE and Resilience
In a remarkable journey shaped by personal resilience, Director of the Berger Institute Stacey Doan has become a leading researcher on resilience, particularly among youth. Recently awarded prestigious grants from the National Institute of Mental Health and The Robert...
Talking about Open Science with Roman Briker
On February 8, 2022, amid the lingering COVID-19 pandemic, the Berger Institute invited Dr. Roman Briker to give an Open Science Zoom talk to members of the Claremont community. Dr. Briker is an Assistant Professor in Organizational Behavior & Human Resource...
Students Engage with Research
In the month of April, Berger students gave presentations summarizing different research articles on stoicism, resilience, and externalizing behaviors. Throughout their tenure at the Institute, Berger provides students with opportunities to engage deeply with complex...
Lunch and Learn with Adam Nemer ‘92
Following a talk at the Athenaeum, Berger Board Member and CMC Alum, Adam Nemer ‘92, spoke to a select group of students at the Berger Institute about the importance of normalizing discussions about mental health in the workplace. Nemer, a former CFO at Kaiser...
Stressed Out and Fed Up: The Relationship between Maternal Stress, Feeding Behaviors, and Executive Functioning
Over 10% of children ages two to five have obesity, and these children are five times more likely than others to face obesity in adulthood. Research has suggested that stress and parental feeding practices play an influential role in childhood obesity. For example,...
Berger Alumni Panel Discuss Graduate School
On October 18, 2024 The Berger Institute invited Alumni Dr. Frida Liu ‘04, Joceyln Chang ‘23, and Isabel Mendiola ‘18 to hold a graduate student panel. Each panelist gave personal insight into their experiences obtaining their graduate degrees in psychology, medicine,...
A Mother’s Touch: Preschool-aged Children are Regulated by Positive Maternal Touch
Have you ever considered how something as simple as a hug can shape a child’s future? Research findings from our lab suggest that touch can shape how children’s bodies respond to stress. The researchers studied a diverse group of 114 mothers and their preschool-aged...
Changes in Maternal Depression and Children’s Behavior Problems: Investigating the Role of COVID-19-Related Stressors, Hair Cortisol, and Dehydroepiandrosterone
The COVID-19 pandemic was a stressful time to be a parent, and every family reacted differently to the huge changes in their everyday lives. With this in mind, Dr. Stacey Doan and colleagues were interested in investigating COVID-19-related stressors and how mothers...
Cara Hagan: Where Ritual and Civic Practice Meet
The Berger Institute teamed up with the Gould Center for Humanistic Rights to invite Cara Hagan to the Athenaeum on January 29th, 2024. Cara Hagan, Associate Professor and Program Director for the MFA in Contemporary Theatre Performance at The New School, describes...
Life After Psychology
On October 29th, 2021, the Berger Institute for Individual and Social Development, hosted three panelists who pursued non-traditional career paths after earning degrees in Psychology: Faye Sahai, Haley Umans, and Matt Wallaert. Ms. Sahai is now a partner at Mirai...