Darby Saxbe is a clinical psychologist and professor of psychology at the University of Southern California, who researches stress within the context of relationships.
She researches stress within a close relationship context, with a focus on the transition to parenthood as a nexus of neural, hormonal, behavioral and psychological change.
She has also been named an Association for Psychological Science Rising Star, received the Society for Research in Child Development Early Career Award in 2015, the Caryl Rusbult Early Career Award for Relationship Research from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology in 2017, and a Fulbright Program Fellowship to Barcelona, Spain in fall 2019 to study cross-cultural perspectives on the parenting brain.
Saxbe directs the USC Center for the Changing Family, a group of affiliated faculty from across the University of Southern California, including faculty from Psychology, Sociology, Economics, Pediatrics, Social Work, Law, and Preventive Medicine who study families from different methodological lenses.
She has consulted on books including Jancee Dunn's How Not to Hate Your Husband After Kids and Eve Rodsky's Fair Play.