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Overview

Benjamin L. Hankin is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Medicine, with a strong focus on Clinical Psychology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Additional areas of study include Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, and Cognitive Neuroscience.

Their work addresses various main topics, notably Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum, Mental Health Research Topics, Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, and Cognitive Processes. Other significant Themes within their publications are Early Childhood Education and Development, Neonatal and Fetal Brain Pathology, and Infant Development and Preterm Care.

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Benjamin L. Hankin are:

  • "Mental health of pregnant and postpartum women in response to the COVID-19 pandemic" (2021, Journal of Affective Disorders Reports)
  • "Associations Between Task Performance and Self-Report Measures of Cognitive Control: Shared Versus Distinct Abilities" (2020, Assessment)
  • "Early pubertal timing predicts onset and recurrence of depressive episodes in boys and girls" (2020, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry)
  • "Affective Development from Middle Childhood to Late Adolescence: Trajectories of Mean-Level Change in Negative and Positive Affect" (2021, Journal of Youth and Adolescence)
  • "Effect of Brief Interpersonal Therapy on Depression During Pregnancy" (2023, JAMA Psychiatry)

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Elysia Poggi Davis
  • M. Camille Hoffman
  • Catherine H. Demers
  • Jami F. Young
  • Melissa Nevarez-Brewster

Their publications are frequently found in venues such as:

  • Psychoneuroendocrinology
  • Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology
  • UNC Libraries
  • Development and Psychopathology
  • Clinical Psychological Science

Best Publications

  • Development of Depression From Preadolescence to Young Adulthood: Emerging Gender Differences in a 10-Year Longitudinal Study

    Benjamin L. Hankin;Lyn Y. Abramson;Terrie E. Moffitt;Phil A. Silva

  • Development of gender differences in depression: an elaborated cognitive vulnerability-transactional stress theory.

    Benjamin L. Hankin;Lyn Y. Abramson

  • Is There a Universal Positivity Bias in Attributions? A Meta-Analytic Review of Individual, Developmental, and Cultural Differences in the Self-Serving Attributional Bias.

    Amy H. Mezulis;Lyn Y. Abramson;Janet S. Hyde;Benjamin L. Hankin

  • Sex differences in adolescent depression: stress exposure and reactivity models.

    Benjamin L. Hankin;Robin Mermelstein;Linda Roesch

  • Advancing understanding of executive function impairments and psychopathology: bridging the gap between clinical and cognitive approaches.

    Hannah R. Snyder;Akira Miyake;Benjamin L. Hankin

  • Neuroticism and common mental disorders : Meaning and utility of a complex relationship

    Johan Ormel;Bertus F Jeronimus;Roman Kotov;Harriëtte Riese

  • Insecure Attachment, Dysfunctional Attitudes, and Low Self-Esteem Predicting Prospective Symptoms of Depression and Anxiety During Adolescence

    Adabel Lee;Benjamin L. Hankin

  • Measuring Cognitive Vulnerability to Depression in Adolescence: Reliability, Validity, and Gender Differences

    Benjamin L. Hankin;Lyn Y. Abramson

  • Adolescent depression: description, causes, and interventions.

    Benjamin L. Hankin

  • Development of psychopathology: A vulnerability-stress perspective.

    Benjamin L. Hankin;John R. Z. Abela

  • Is depression best viewed as a continuum or discrete category? A taxometric analysis of childhood and adolescent depression in a population-based sample.

    Benjamin L. Hankin;R. Chris Fraley;Benjamin B. Lahey;Irwin D. Waldman

  • Depression from childhood into late adolescence: Influence of gender, development, genetic susceptibility, and peer stress.

    Benjamin L. Hankin;Jami F. Young;John R. Z. Abela;Andrew Smolen

  • Cognitive vulnerability-stress models of depression in a self-regulatory and psychobiological context.

    Lyn Y. Abramson;Lauren B. Alloy;Benjamin L. Hankin;Gerald J. Haeffel

  • Rumination as a vulnerability factor to depression during the transition from early to middle adolescence: A multiwave longitudinal study.

    John R. Z. Abela;Benjamin L. Hankin

  • Nonsuicidal self-injury in adolescence: Prospective rates and risk factors in a 2 ½ year longitudinal study

    Benjamin L. Hankin;John R.Z. Abela

  • Cognitive Vulnerability-Stress Theories of Depression: Examining Affective Specificity in the Prediction of Depression Versus Anxiety in Three Prospective Studies.

    Benjamin L. Hankin;Lyn Y. Abramson;Nicolle Miller;Gerald J. Haeffel

  • Development of gender differences in depression: description and possible explanations

    Benjamin L Hankin;Lyn Y Abramson

  • Adult Attachment Dimensions and Specificity of Emotional Distress Symptoms: Prospective Investigations of Cognitive Risk and Interpersonal Stress Generation as Mediating Mechanisms

    Benjamin L. Hankin;Benjamin L. Hankin;Jon D. Kassel;John R. Z. Abela

  • A Prospective Test of the Hopelessness Theory of Depression in Adolescence

    Benjamin L. Hankin;Lyn Y. Abramson;Mara Siler

  • Childhood Maltreatment and Psychopathology: Prospective Tests of Attachment, Cognitive Vulnerability, and Stress as Mediating Processes.

    Benjamin L. Hankin

Frequent Co-Authors

Jami F. Young
Jami F. Young Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Lyn Y. Abramson
Lyn Y. Abramson University of Wisconsin–Madison
John R. Z. Abela
John R. Z. Abela McGill University
Brandon E. Gibb
Brandon E. Gibb Binghamton University
Kate Flory
Kate Flory University of South Carolina
Elysia Poggi Davis
Elysia Poggi Davis University of Denver
Esther Calvete
Esther Calvete University of Deusto
R. Chris Fraley
R. Chris Fraley University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Laura M. Glynn
Laura M. Glynn Chapman University
Lauren B. Alloy
Lauren B. Alloy Temple University

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