2026 Lauren B. Alloy: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Best Female Scientists	106	1037	987	628	593	449	49876
Psychology	109	411	361	260	224	447	52327

Research.com Recognitions

2014 - Joseph Zubin Award, Society for Research in Psychopathology
2009 - James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award, Association for Psychological Science
1997 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Lauren B. Alloy is affiliated with Temple University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields of study including Neuroscience, Psychology, and Medicine. Key subfields include Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Behavioral Neuroscience, Biological Psychiatry, Clinical Psychology, and Psychiatry and Mental Health.

The scientist's main topics of research explore areas such as Stress Responses and Cortisol, Tryptophan and Brain Disorders, Mental Health Research Topics, Bipolar Disorder and Treatment, Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum, and Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, and Cognitive Processes.

Frequent publication venues for their work include Biological Psychiatry with 25 publications, Brain Behavior and Immunity with 17, Journal of Affective Disorders and Journal of Youth and Adolescence each with 7, as well as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with 6 publications.

Significant recent papers authored or co-authored by Lauren B. Alloy include:

The longitudinal associations of inflammatory biomarkers and depression revisited: systematic review, meta-analysis, and meta-regression, 2020, Molecular Psychiatry
To exclude or not to exclude: Considerations and recommendations for C-reactive protein values higher than 10 mg/L, 2020, Brain Behavior and Immunity
Neurobiological and behavioral mechanisms of circadian rhythm disruption in bipolar disorder: A critical multi-disciplinary literature review and agenda for future research from the ISBD task force on chronobiology, 2021, Bipolar Disorders
How handling extreme C-reactive protein (CRP) values and regularization influences CRP and depression criteria associations in network analyses, 2020, Brain Behavior and Immunity
Bidirectional Associations Between Inflammatory Biomarkers and Depressive Symptoms in Adolescents: Potential Causal Relationships, 2020, Clinical Psychological Science

The scientist has collaborated extensively with frequent coauthors including Daniel P. Moriarity, Lauren M. Ellman, Lyn Y. Abramson, Thomas M. Olino, and Robin Nusslock.

Awards received by Lauren B. Alloy include the Joseph Zubin Award from the Society for Research in Psychopathology in 2014, the James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award from the Association for Psychological Science in 2009, and designation as a Fellow of the American Psychological Association in 1997.

Best Publications

Hopelessness depression: A theory-based subtype of depression.

Lyn Y. Abramson;Gerald I. Metalsky;Lauren B. Alloy

6334
Citations
Judgment of contingency in depressed and nondepressed students: sadder but wiser?

Lauren B. Alloy;Lyn Y. Abramson

2936
Citations
Judgment of contingency in depressed and nondepressed students

Lauren B Alloy;Lyn Y. Abramson

1658
Citations
Attributional style and depressive symptoms among children.

M E Seligman;C Peterson;N J Kaslow;R L Tanenbaum

1196
Citations
The response styles theory of depression: tests and an extension of the theory.

Nancy Just;Lauren B. Alloy

1134
Citations
Assessment of covariation by humans and animals: The joint influence of prior expectations and current situational information.

Lauren B. Alloy;Naomi Tabachnik

1060
Citations
A roadmap to rumination: a review of the definition, assessment, and conceptualization of this multifaceted construct.

Jeannette M. Smith;Lauren B. Alloy

1042
Citations
Rumination as a common mechanism relating depressive risk factors to depression.

Jelena Spasojević;Lauren B. Alloy

971
Citations
Depressive realism: Four theoretical perspectives.

Lauren B. Alloy;Lyn Y. Abramson

905
Citations
The Temple-Wisconsin Cognitive Vulnerability to Depression Project: lifetime history of axis I psychopathology in individuals at high and low cognitive risk for depression.

Lauren B. Alloy;Lyn Y. Abramson;Michael E. Hogan;Wayne G. Whitehouse

874
Citations
Stress generation in depression: A systematic review of the empirical literature and recommendations for future study.

Richard T. Liu;Lauren B. Alloy

840
Citations
Automatic and effortful processing in depression.

Shirley Hartlage;Lauren B. Alloy;Carmelo Vázquez;Benjamin Dykman

791
Citations
Negative Cognitive Styles and Stress-Reactive Rumination Interact to Predict Depression: A Prospective Study

Matthew S. Robinson;Lauren B. Alloy

779
Citations
Comorbidity of anxiety and depressive disorders: A helplessness-hopelessness perspective.

Lauren B. Alloy;Kelly A. Kelly;Susan Mineka;Caroline M. Clements

648
Citations
Prospective incidence of first onsets and recurrences of depression in individuals at high and low cognitive risk for depression.

Lauren B. Alloy;Lyn Y. Abramson;Wayne G. Whitehouse;Michael E. Hogan

643
Citations
Attributional style and the generality of learned helplessness.

Lauren B. Alloy;Christopher Peterson;Lyn Y. Abramson;Martin E. Seligman

581
Citations
Neural and behavioral substrates of mood and mood regulation.

Richard J Davidson;David A Lewis;Lauren B Alloy;David G Amaral

545
Citations
Depressogenic cognitive styles: predictive validity, information processing and personality characteristics, and developmental origins.

Lauren B. Alloy;Lyn Y. Abramson;Wayne G. Whitehouse;Michael E. Hogan

538
Citations
Depression and pessimism for the future: biased use of statistically relevant information in predictions for self versus others.

Lauren B. Alloy;Anthony H. Ahrens

509
Citations
The hopelessness theory of depression: attributional aspects.

Lauren B. Alloy;Lyn Y. Abramson;Gerald I. Metalsky;Shirley Hartlage

477
Citations
Cognitive processes in depression

Lauren B. Alloy

350
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Lyn Y. Abramson University of Wisconsin–Madison

Jonathan P. Stange University of Southern California

Robin Nusslock Northwestern University

Wayne G. Whitehouse Temple University

Richard T. Liu Harvard Medical School

Thomas M. Olino Temple University

Brandon E. Gibb Binghamton University

Eddie Harmon-Jones University of New South Wales

Gerald I. Metalsky Lawrence University

David M. Fresco University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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