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Laura D. Kubzansky

Laura D. Kubzansky

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Psychology

D-Index
102
Citations
39540
World Ranking
572
National Ranking
360

Medicine

D-Index
102
Citations
39896
World Ranking
7635
National Ranking
3976

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2014 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Laura D. Kubzansky is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research spans psychology and medicine, focusing extensively on clinical, applied, and social psychology as well as health and general health professions. The main topics in their work include optimism, hope, and well-being; health disparities and outcomes; psychological well-being and life satisfaction; climate change and health impacts; resilience and mental health; stress responses and cortisol; and posttraumatic stress disorder research.

Their scholarly output includes publications in prominent venues such as Circulation, UNC Libraries, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Preventive Medicine, and Psychological Medicine. Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Laura D. Kubzansky include:

  • Risk of COVID-19 among front-line health-care workers and the general community: a prospective cohort study (2020, The Lancet Public Health)
  • Psychological Health, Well-Being, and the Mind-Heart-Body Connection: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association (2021, Circulation)
  • Rapid implementation of mobile technology for real-time epidemiology of COVID-19 (2020, Science)
  • Associations of Depression, Anxiety, Worry, Perceived Stress, and Loneliness Prior to Infection With Risk of Post-COVID-19 Conditions (2022, JAMA Psychiatry)
  • Psychological resilience: an update on definitions, a critical appraisal, and research recommendations (2020, European journal of psychotraumatology)

Frequent collaborators in their research include Karestan C. Koenen, Claudia Trudel-Fitzgerald, Andrea L. Roberts, Julia K. Boehm, and Tianyi Huang. Laura D. Kubzansky's work reflects considerable interdisciplinary engagement across psychological and medical sciences related to health and well-being.

In recognition of their professional contributions, they were named a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) in 2014.

Best Publications

  • Risk of COVID-19 among front-line health-care workers and the general community: a prospective cohort study.

    Long H. Nguyen;David A. Drew;Mark S. Graham;Amit D. Joshi

  • The epidemiology, pathophysiology, and management of psychosocial risk factors in cardiac practice: The emerging field of behavioral cardiology

    Alan Rozanski;James A. Blumenthal;Karina W. Davidson;Patrice G. Saab

  • Anxiety disorders and comorbid medical illness

    Peter P. Roy-Byrne;Karina W. Davidson;Ronald C. Kessler;Gordon J.G. Asmundson

  • Genetic variants associated with subjective well-being, depressive symptoms, and neuroticism identified through genome-wide analyses

    Aysu Okbay;Bart M L Baselmans;Jan-Emmanuel De Neve;Patrick Turley

  • The Heart's Content: The Association Between Positive Psychological Well-Being and Cardiovascular Health

    Julia K. Boehm;Laura D. Kubzansky

  • Social Networks, Social Support, and Survival After Breast Cancer Diagnosis

    Candyce H. Kroenke;Laura D. Kubzansky;Eva S. Schernhammer;Michelle D. Holmes

  • Psychological Health, Well-Being, and the Mind-Heart-Body Connection: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association.

    Glenn N. Levine;Beth E. Cohen;Yvonne Commodore-Mensah;Julie Fleury

  • Going to the heart of the matter: do negative emotions cause coronary heart disease?

    Laura D Kubzansky;Ichiro Kawachi

  • The role of oxytocin in social bonding, stress regulation and mental health: an update on the moderating effects of context and interindividual differences.

    Miranda Olff;Jessie L. Frijling;Laura D. Kubzansky;Bekh Bradley

  • Childhood IQ and Adult Mental Disorders: A Test of the Cognitive Reserve Hypothesis

    Karestan C. Koenen;Terrie E. Moffitt;Andrea L. Roberts;Laurie T. Martin

  • Is Worrying Bad for Your Heart? A Prospective Study of Worry and Coronary Heart Disease in the Normative Aging Study

    Laura D. Kubzansky;Ichiro Kawachi;Avron Spiro;Scott T. Weiss

  • Is the glass half empty or half full? A prospective study of optimism and coronary heart disease in the normative aging study.

    Laura D. Kubzansky;David Sparrow;Pantel Vokonas;Ichiro Kawachi

  • Affective science and health: the importance of emotion and emotion regulation.

    David DeSteno;James J. Gross;Laura Kubzansky

  • Positive Emotion and Health: Going Beyond the Negative.

    Laura Smart Richman;Laura Kubzansky;Joanna Maselko;Ichiro Kawachi

  • Prospective study of posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms and coronary heart disease in the Normative Aging Study.

    Laura D. Kubzansky;Karestan C. Koenen;Avron Spiro;Pantel S. Vokonas

  • Anxiety and coronary heart disease: A synthesis of epidemiological, psychological, and experimental evidence

    Laura D. Kubzansky;Ichiro Kawachi;Scott T. Weiss;David Sparrow;David Sparrow

  • Depression and risk of sudden cardiac death and coronary heart disease in women: results from the Nurses' Health Study.

    William Whang;Laura D. Kubzansky;Ichiro Kawachi;Kathryn M. Rexrode

  • Gender differences in religious practices, spiritual experiences and health: results from the US General Social Survey.

    Joanna Maselko;Laura D. Kubzansky

  • Positive Psychological Well-Being and Cardiovascular Disease: JACC Health Promotion Series

    Laura D. Kubzansky;Jeff C. Huffman;Julia K. Boehm;Rosalba Hernandez

  • Women, loneliness, and incident coronary heart disease.

    Rebecca C. Thurston;Laura D. Kubzansky

  • Childhood IQ and Adult Mental Disorders

    Karestan C. Koenen;Terrie E. Moffitt;Andrea L. Roberts;Laurie T. Martin

  • Genetic variants associated with subjective well-being, depressive symptoms, and neuroticism identified through genome-wide analyses

    Aysu Okbay;Bart M. L. Baselmans;Jan-Emmanuel De Neve;Patrick Turley

Frequent Co-Authors

Karestan C. Koenen
Karestan C. Koenen Harvard University
Ichiro Kawachi
Ichiro Kawachi Harvard University
Julia K. Boehm
Julia K. Boehm Chapman University
Eric B. Rimm
Eric B. Rimm Harvard University
Andrea L. Roberts
Andrea L. Roberts Harvard University
Shelley S. Tworoger
Shelley S. Tworoger Harvard University
Stephen L. Buka
Stephen L. Buka Brown University
M. Maria Glymour
M. Maria Glymour Boston University
David Sparrow
David Sparrow Boston University
Eric S. Kim
Eric S. Kim University of British Columbia

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