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Susan Nolen-Hoeksema

Susan Nolen-Hoeksema

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Psychology

D-Index
99
Citations
95933
World Ranking
636
National Ranking
403

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award, Association for Psychological Science

Overview

Susan Nolen-Hoeksema was affiliated with Yale University in the United States. Their academic work focused on psychological research, with a career that included contributions recognized by the wider scientific community.

During their tenure, they received the James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award from the Association for Psychological Science in 2013.

Though specific recent papers, coauthors, publication venues, books, and detailed fields or subfields of study are not documented here, their association with Yale and award recognition indicate active involvement in psychological science.

Best Publications

  • Emotion-regulation strategies across psychopathology: A meta-analytic review.

    Amelia Aldao;Susan Nolen-Hoeksema;Susanne Schweizer

  • Responses to depression and their effects on the duration of depressive episodes.

    Susan Nolen-Hoeksema

  • Rethinking Rumination

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  • Rumination reconsidered: A psychometric analysis.

    Wendy Treynor;Richard Gonzalez;Susan Nolen-Hoeksema

  • The role of rumination in depressive disorders and mixed anxiety/depressive symptoms.

    Susan Nolen-Hoeksema

  • A prospective study of depression and posttraumatic stress symptoms after a natural disaster: the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake.

    Susan Nolen-Hoeksema;Jannay Morrow

  • Sex differences in unipolar depression: evidence and theory.

    Susan Nolen-Hoeksema

  • The emergence of gender differences in depression during adolescence.

    Susan Nolen-Hoeksema;Joan S. Girgus

  • Explaining the gender difference in depressive symptoms

    Susan Nolen-Hoeksema;Judith Larson;Carla Grayson

  • Making sense of loss and benefiting from the experience: two construals of meaning.

    Christopher G. Davis;Susan Nolen-Hoeksema;Judith Larson

  • Response styles and the duration of episodes of depressed mood.

    Susan Nolen-Hoeksema;Jannay Morrow;Barbara L. Fredrickson

  • Gender Differences in Depression

    Susan Nolen-Hoeksema

  • Effects of self-focused rumination on negative thinking and interpersonal problem solving.

    Sonja Lyubomirsky;Susan Nolen-Hoeksema

  • Ruminative coping with depressed mood following loss.

    Susan Nolen-Hoeksema;Louise E. Parker;Judith Larson

  • Sex differences in depression

    Susan Nolen-Hoeksema

  • Effects of rumination and distraction on naturally occurring depressed mood

    Susan Nolen-hoeksema;Jannay Morrow

  • Predictors and Consequences of Childhood Depressive Symptoms: A 5-Year Longitudinal Study

    Susan Nolen-Hoeksema;Joan S. Girgus;Martin E.P. Seligman

  • Age, gender, race, socioeconomic status, and birth cohort difference on the children's depression inventory: A meta-analysis.

    Jean M. Twenge;Susan Nolen-Hoeksema

  • Gender differences in risk factors and consequences for alcohol use and problems.

    Susan Nolen-Hoeksema

  • Emotion Regulation and Psychopathology: The Role of Gender

    Susan Nolen-Hoeksema

  • Specificity of cognitive emotion regulation strategies: A transdiagnostic examination

    Amelia Aldao;Susan Nolen-Hoeksema

  • Self-perpetuating properties of dysphoric rumination.

    Sonja Lyubomirsky;Susan Nolen-Hoeksema

Frequent Co-Authors

Katie A. McLaughlin
Katie A. McLaughlin University of Oregon
Amelia Aldao
Amelia Aldao Together CBT
Sonja Lyubomirsky
Sonja Lyubomirsky University of California, Riverside
Martin E. P. Seligman
Martin E. P. Seligman University of Pennsylvania
June Gruber
June Gruber University of Colorado Boulder
John F. Dovidio
John F. Dovidio Yale University
Nadine J. Kaslow
Nadine J. Kaslow Emory University
Regina Miranda
Regina Miranda Hunter College
Barbara L. Fredrickson
Barbara L. Fredrickson University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Eric Stice
Eric Stice Stanford University

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