My research focuses on clarifying how stressors secondary to social disadvantage influence children’s social and emotional development beginning as early as the prenatal and early childhood years. Professor Lin is especially interested in understanding (1) how stress exposure may calibrate children’s developing stress response systems, (2) how children’s stress responsivity transacts with child, family, and community factors to confer risk, resilience, and adaptation, and (3) the intra- and intergenerational consequences of these processes for health and well-being in children from marginalized populations. My research addresses how this stress responsivity may manifest behaviorally, such as in children's temperament, and physiologically, such as in children's sympathetic, parasympathetic, and adrenocortical responding. Ultimately, the goal of my research is to clarify the developmental processes that promote health and well-being in children with social disadvantage.