Professional Background
Professor of Education and Psychology
Educational Background
B.A., Hampshire College
Ph.D., Yale University
Scholarly Interests
Website for the Emotion, Stress, and Relationship Lab: http://devweb.tc.columbia.edu/research/esrl/
Selected Publications
For a full list of publications,
see documents and papers.
To request PDFs
of published or "in press" papers, please email Professor Bonanno at gab38@columbia.edu.
SELECT BOOKS:
The
Other Side of Sadness: What the New Science of Bereavement Tells us about Life
After Loss (2009). Basic
Books
SELECT RECENT ARTICLES:
Gupta, S., & Bonanno, G. A. (in press). Anger expression and adaptation to childhood sexual abuse: The role of disclosure. Psychological Trauma
Galatzer-Levy,
Coifman, K. G., & Bonanno, G. A. (in press). When distress does not become depression: Emotion context sensitivity and recovery from bereavement. Journal of Abnormal Psychology
Bonanno, G. A., Brewin, C. R., Kaniasty, K. & La Greca, A. M, (in press). The parameters of disaster: Consequences, risks, and resilience in individuals, families, communities, and society. Psychological Science in the Public Interest
Gupta, S., & Bonanno,
G. A. (in press). Trait self-enhancement as a buffer against
potentially traumatic events: A prospective study. Psychological Trauma
DeRoon-Cassini, T., Mancini, A. D., Rusch, M., & Bonanno, G. A. (2010). Psychopathology and resilience following traumatic injury: A latent growth mixture model analysis. Rehabilitation Psychology, 55, 1-11.
Westphal, M., Seivert, N. H., & Bonanno, G. A. (2010). Expressive flexibility. Emotion, 10, 92-100.
Lam, W.
T., Bonanno,
G. A., Mancini, A. D., Ho, S. M. Y., Chan, M., Huan, W. K., Or, A.,
& Fielding, R. (2009). Trajectories of psychological distress among Chinese
women diagnosed with breast cancer. Psycho-oncology.
Mancini, A.
D., & Bonanno, G. A. (2009). Predictors and parameters of resilience
to loss: Toward an individual differences model. Journal of Personality, 77, 1-27
Bonanno, G. A., Ho,
S.M.Y., Chan, J.C.K, Kwong, R.S.Y., Cheung, C.K.Y.,Wong, C.P.Y., & Wong,
V.C.W. (2008). Psychological resilience
and dysfunction among hospitalized survivors of the SARS epidemic in
Bonanno, G. A., & Lilienfeld, S. O. (2008). Let's be realistic: When grief counseling is effective and when it's not. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 39, 377-380.
Papa, A., & Bonanno, G. A. (2008). Smiling in the face of adversity: Interpersonal and intrapersonal functions of smiling. Emotion, 8, 1-12.
Bonanno, G. A., Colak, D.
M., Keltner, D., Shiota, L., Papa, A., Noll, J. G., Putnam, F. W., &
Trickett, P. K. (2007). Context matters:
The benefits and costs of expressing positive emotion among survivors of chil
Bonanno, G. A., Galea, S., Bucciarelli, A., & Vlahov, D. (2007). What predicts psychological resilience after disaster? The role of demographics, resources, and life stress. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 75, 671-682.
Bonanno, G. A., &
Boerner, K. (2007). The stage theory of grief. JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 297, 2693.
Westphal, M., & Bonanno, G. A. (2007). Posttraumatic growth and resilience to trauma: Different sides of the same coin or different coins? Applied Psychology: An International Review, 56, 416-426.
Coifman, K. G., Bonanno, G. A., Ray, R., & Gross, J. J. (2007). Does repressive coping promote resilience? Affective-autonomic response discrepancy during bereavement. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 92, 745-758.
Bonanno, G. A., Neria, Y., Mancini, A. D., Coifman, D., Litz, B. & Insel, B. (2007). Is there more to complicated grief than depression and PTSD? A test of incremental validity. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 116, 342-351.

George A. Bonanno
Professor of Education and Psychology
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