Tara Chaplin

Dr. Tara Chaplin is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at George Mason University and a licensed clinical psychologist. She received a Ph.D. in Child-Clinical psychology in 2003 from Penn State University. She completed post-doctoral training at the University of Pennsylvania from 2003-2006. Following this, she moved to Yale University, where she completed one year as a post-doctoral associate and two years as an Associate Research Scientist from 2006-2009. In 2009, Dr. Chaplin was promoted to Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Yale. She left Yale to join the Clinical Psychology Faculty at George Mason University in 2013. Dr. Chaplin’s research has been funded by grants from the National Institutes of Health and the ABMRF/Foundation for Alcohol Research. Her papers have appeared in Psychological Bulletin, Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Addictive Behaviors, Journal of Early Adolescence, and others.