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Overview

George A. Bonanno is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with a significant number of publications in clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, social psychology, general health professions, and applied psychology.

The scientist's recent papers include:

  • Psychological adjustment during the global outbreak of COVID-19: A resilience perspective, 2020, Psychological Trauma Theory Research Practice and Policy
  • The resilience paradox, 2021, European journal of psychotraumatology
  • Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Among Healthcare Workers During the COVID-19 Outbreak and Relationships With Expressive Flexibility and Context Sensitivity, 2021, Frontiers in Psychology
  • Networks of major depressive disorder: A systematic review, 2021, Clinical Psychology Review
  • Anxiety and resilience in the face of natural disasters associated with climate change: A review and methodological critique, 2020, Journal of Anxiety Disorders

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Shuquan Chen
  • Vittorio Lenzo
  • Ann-Christin Haag
  • Maria C. Quattropani
  • Isaac R. Galatzer-Levy

The scientist publishes often in the following venues:

  • Journal of Psychiatric Research
  • European journal of psychotraumatology
  • Development and Psychopathology
  • PsycTESTS Dataset
  • Psychological Trauma Theory Research Practice and Policy

The main topics of their work cover:

  • Resilience and Mental Health
  • Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Migration, Health and Trauma
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health

Best Publications

  • Loss, trauma, and human resilience: Have we underestimated the human capacity to thrive after extremely aversive events?

    George A. Bonanno

  • Resilience definitions, theory, and challenges: interdisciplinary perspectives

    Steven M. Southwick;George A. Bonanno;Ann S. Masten;Catherine Panter-Brick

  • Prolonged Grief Disorder: Psychometric Validation of Criteria Proposed for DSM-V and ICD-11

    Holly G Prigerson;Holly G Prigerson;Mardi J. Horowitz;Selby C. Jacobs;Colin M. Parkes

  • What predicts psychological resilience after disaster? The role of demographics, resources, and life stress.

    George A. Bonanno;Sandro Galea;Angela Bucciarelli;David Vlahov

  • Diagnostic criteria for complicated grief disorder

    M J Horowitz;B Siegel;A Holen;G A Bonanno

  • Regulatory Flexibility: An Individual Differences Perspective on Coping and Emotion Regulation.

    George A. Bonanno;Charles L. Burton

  • Resilience to Loss and Potential Trauma

    George A. Bonanno;Maren Westphal;Anthony D. Mancini

  • Weighing the Costs of Disaster: Consequences, Risks, and Resilience in Individuals, Families, and Communities

    George A. Bonanno;Chris R. Brewin;Krzysztof Kaniasty;Annette M. La Greca

  • Resilience to Loss and Chronic Grief: A Prospective Study From Preloss to 18-Months Postloss

    George A. Bonanno;Camille B. Wortman;Darrin R. Lehman;Roger G. Tweed

  • The Importance of Being Flexible: The Ability to Both Enhance and Suppress Emotional Expression Predicts Long-Term Adjustment

    George A. Bonanno;Anthony Papa;Kathleen Lalande;Maren Westphal

  • Resilience in the Face of Potential Trauma

    George A. Bonanno

  • The varieties of grief experience.

    George A Bonanno;Stacey Kaltman

  • Psychological Resilience After Disaster New York City in the Aftermath of the September 11th Terrorist Attack

    George A. Bonanno;Sandro Galea;Sandro Galea;Angela Bucciarelli;David Vlahov

  • Toward an integrative perspective on bereavement.

    George A. Bonanno;Stacey Kaltman

  • Prospective patterns of resilience and maladjustment during widowhood

    George A. Bonanno;Camille B. Wortman;Randolph M. Nesse

  • Annual Research Review: Positive adjustment to adversity--trajectories of minimal-impact resilience and emergent resilience.

    George A. Bonanno;Erica D. Diminich

  • A Study of Laughter and Dissociation: Distinct Correlates of Laughter and Smiling During Bereavement

    Dacher Keltner;George A. Bonanno

  • Trajectories of resilience and dysfunction following potential trauma: A review and statistical evaluation.

    Isaac R. Galatzer-Levy;Sandy H. Huang;George A. Bonanno

  • The resilience framework as a strategy to combat stress-related disorders

    Raffael Kalisch;Dewleen G. Baker;Dewleen G. Baker;Ulrike Basten;Ulrike Basten;Marco P. Boks

  • The Human Capacity to Thrive in the Face of Potential Trauma

    George A. Bonanno;Anthony D. Mancini

  • The Other Side of Sadness: What the New Science of Bereavement Tells Us About Life After Loss

    George A. Bonanno

  • Facial expressions of emotion and the course of conjugal bereavement.

    George A. Bonanno;Dacher Keltner

Frequent Co-Authors

Anthony D. Mancini
Anthony D. Mancini Pace University
Isaac R. Galatzer-Levy
Isaac R. Galatzer-Levy New York University
Fiona Maccallum
Fiona Maccallum University of Warwick
Mardi J. Horowitz
Mardi J. Horowitz University of California, San Francisco
Dacher Keltner
Dacher Keltner University of California, Berkeley
Nigel P. Field
Nigel P. Field Palo Alto University
Are Holen
Are Holen Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Camille B. Wortman
Camille B. Wortman Stony Brook University
Jennie G. Noll
Jennie G. Noll Pennsylvania State University
Penelope K. Trickett
Penelope K. Trickett University of Southern California

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