Lyn Abramson
Professor
Ph.D. 1978, University of Pennsylvania
Email: lyabrams@wisc.edu
My research focuses on vulnerability and invulnerability to depression. I am particularly interested in the developmental,
cognitive, motivational, and cultural determinants of information processing about the self. Recently, we have begun to
explore the effects of early psychological, physical, and sexual maltreatment on the development of cognitive styles and
vulnerability to depression in adulthood. Finally, I have expanded my research program to include bipolar and eating
disorders, particularly bulimia.
Representative Publications
Abramson, L.Y., Alloy, L.B., Hankin, B.L., Haeffel, G.J., MacCoon, D.G., & Gibb, B.E. (2002). Cognitive vulnerability-stress
models of depression in a self-regulatory and psychobiological context. In I.H. Gotlib & C.L. Hammen (Eds.), Handbook of Depression.
New York: Guilford.
Hankin, B.L., & Abramson, L.Y. (2001). Development of gender differences in depression: An elaborated cognitive
vulnerability-transactional stress theory. Psychological Bulletin, 127, 773-796.
Harmon-Jones, E., Abramson, L.Y., Sigelman, J., Bohlig, A., Hogan, M.E., & Harmon-Jones, C. (2002). Proneness to
hypomania/mania symptoms or depression symptoms and asymmetrical frontal cortical responses to an anger-evoking event. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 82, 610-618.
Gibb, B.E., Alloy, L.B., Abramson, L.Y., Rose, D.T., Whitehouse, W.G., Donovan, P., Hogan, M.E., Cronholm, J., & Tierney, S.
(2001). History of childhood maltreatment, negative cognitive styles, and episodes of depression in adulthood. Cognitive
Therapy and Research, 25, 425-446. (Special issue on Developmental Antecedents of Cognitive Vulnerablity to Depression).
Vohs, K.D., Bardone, A.M., Joiner, T.E., Abramson, L.Y., & Heatherton, T.F. (1999). Perfectionism, perceived weight status,
and self-esteem interact to predict bulimic ymptoms: A model of bulimic symptom development. Journal of Abnormal Psychology,
108, 695-700.
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