Susan Alice Nolan is an American clinical psychologist who studies critical thinking in the classroom, assessment in higher education, mental health, and gender disparities in STEM fields.

[1] After that, she went to Northwestern University where in 1996, where she earned a Master of Science and Ph.D. in clinical psychology[5] under the supervision of Ian Gotlib and Susan Mineka.

[5] Her dissertation was titled "Verbal, nonverbal, and gender-related factors in negative interpersonal reactions toward depressed and anxious individuals."

Nolan then completed a clinical internship at Vanderbilt University through the Nashville Department of Veteran Affairs.

[13] One of her studies examined the effects of neuroticism and ruminative response style on changes in symptoms of depression over an 8 to 10 week period.