Darby Saxbe

Yes, in clinical psych.

Two in one week.

Every time you interview one, you should be like, what's wrong with you?

So originally transitioned into parenthood.

And I was curious about couples and how they navigated relationships and roles.

And I worked on this big study at UCLA, which was called the Center for the Everyday Lives of Families, where we basically camped out in families' homes.

Yeah.

And there were a bunch of anthropologists on the study team.

So it was this cool collaborative study.

And we tracked them around their houses.

We borrowed this technique that you use for primate research called scan sampling where we were recording their movements.

Like every 10 minutes, where is everybody?

What are they doing?

Oh, wow.

And so we had this really cool corpus of data, and I worked with the cortisol data, which is stress hormone data, to see how are their physiological stress levels tracking with their relationship quality and how they feel about their homes.

And so that kind of got me interested in...

family stress and then I wanted to kind of go to the source which is you know when does a couple become like a triad when do they start a family basically and so when I had the chance to start my own lab at USC I knew I wanted to do a transition to parenthood study and I got interested in fathers actually in part out of convenience which was that I knew I wanted to do a brain scanning component and

And as a postdoc who was starting to plan this study, I was not allowed to go into the scanner because I was pregnant.

So I was working on a neuroimaging study and they were keeping me out of the neuroimaging suite.

And you can scan pregnant women, but it's just like a couple layers of extra...