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Lyn Y. Abramson publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Lyn Y. Abramson sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 706+

This scientist: 304 publications — 88th percentile

88% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 706 publications or more.

Lyn Y. Abramson D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Lyn Y. Abramson sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 106 D-Index — 96th percentile

96% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2009 - James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award, Association for Psychological Science

Overview

Lyn Y. Abramson is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their research spans various fields, primarily focusing on neuroscience and psychology. The scientist's work includes significant contributions in behavioral neuroscience, biological psychiatry, experimental and cognitive psychology, clinical psychology, and education.

Their research covers a range of topics, including:

  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Tryptophan and brain disorders
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum

Some of the recent papers authored or coauthored by Abramson include:

  • To exclude or not to exclude: Considerations and recommendations for C-reactive protein values higher than 10 mg/L, 2020, Brain Behavior and Immunity
  • Bidirectional Associations Between Inflammatory Biomarkers and Depressive Symptoms in Adolescents: Potential Causal Relationships, 2020, Clinical Psychological Science
  • Early Pubertal Timing Mediates the Association between Low Socioeconomic Status and Poor Attention and Executive Functioning in a Diverse Community Sample of Adolescents, 2020, Journal of Youth and Adolescence
  • Reward Sensitivity, Cognitive Response Style, and Inflammatory Response to an Acute Stressor in Adolescents, 2020, Journal of Youth and Adolescence
  • Pubertal Synchrony and Depressive Symptoms: Differences by Race and Sex, 2020, Journal of Youth and Adolescence

Abramson's frequent coauthors include:

  • Lauren B. Alloy
  • Christopher L. Coe
  • Naoise Mac Giollabhui
  • Lauren M. Ellman
  • Daniel P. Moriarity

The scientist's work has been published repeatedly in several venues, with notable frequent publications in:

  • Biological Psychiatry
  • Brain Behavior and Immunity
  • Journal of Youth and Adolescence
  • UNC Libraries
  • Clinical Psychological Science

In recognition of their contributions, Lyn Y. Abramson received the James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award from the Association for Psychological Science in 2009.

Best Publications

  • Learned Helplessness in Humans: Critique and Reformulation

    Lyn Y. Abramson;Martin E. P. Seligman;John D. Teasdale

  • Hopelessness depression: A theory-based subtype of depression.

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

  • The attributional Style Questionnaire

    Christopher Peterson;Amy Semmel;Carl L. von Baeyer;Lyn Y. Abramson

  • 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

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

    Lauren B. Alloy;Lyn Y. Abramson

  • Gender differences in depression in representative national samples: Meta-analyses of diagnoses and symptoms.

    Rachel H. Salk;Janet S. Hyde;Lyn Y. Abramson

  • Depressive attributional style.

    Martin E. P. Seligman;Lyn Y. Abramson;Amy Semmel;Carl von Baeyer

  • 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

  • Judgment of contingency in depressed and nondepressed students

    Lauren B Alloy;Lyn Y. Abramson

  • The ABCs of depression: integrating affective, biological, and cognitive models to explain the emergence of the gender difference in depression.

    Janet Shibley Hyde;Amy H. Mezulis;Lyn Y. Abramson

  • Attributional style and depressive symptoms among children.

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

  • Depressive realism: Four theoretical perspectives.

    Lauren B. Alloy;Lyn Y. Abramson

  • 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

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

    Benjamin L. Hankin;Lyn Y. Abramson

  • Vulnerability to depressive mood reactions: toward a more powerful test of the diathesis-stress and causal mediation components of the reformulated theory of depression.

    Gerald I. Metalsky;Lisa J. Halberstadt;Lyn Y. Abramson

  • 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

  • Cognitive patterns and major depressive disorder: A longitudinal study in a hospital setting.

    Eleanor W. Hamilton;Lyn Y. Abramson

  • Depressive reactions to failure in a naturalistic setting: a test of the hopelessness and self-esteem theories of depression

    Gerald I. Metalsky;Thomas E. Joiner;Tammy S. Hardin;Lyn Y. Abramson

  • Attributional style and the generality of learned helplessness.

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Lauren B. Alloy
Lauren B. Alloy Temple University
Jonathan P. Stange
Jonathan P. Stange University of Southern California
Wayne G. Whitehouse
Wayne G. Whitehouse Temple University
Gerald I. Metalsky
Gerald I. Metalsky Lawrence University
Robin Nusslock
Robin Nusslock Northwestern University
Eddie Harmon-Jones
Eddie Harmon-Jones University of New South Wales
Brandon E. Gibb
Brandon E. Gibb Binghamton University
Benjamin L. Hankin
Benjamin L. Hankin University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Thomas E. Joiner
Thomas E. Joiner Florida State University
Martin E. P. Seligman
Martin E. P. Seligman University of Pennsylvania

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