Cortney Evans Stout (PhD), received her doctorate degree in Human Development from Brigham Young University in 2008 and completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania in 2010. She has been a Professor of Child Development for the past nine years (BYU, Visiting Professor; Westminster College, Visiting Professor; BYU-Idaho, Professor). She has published numerous studies in academic journals on both parental and environmental influences on children’s social and emotional outcomes. Her current research examines how parenting behaviors affect children differently based on biological aspects of their temperaments; a concept known as differential susceptibility to environmental influence.
