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Professional Background

Professor of Education and Psychology

Educational Background

B.A., Hampshire College


Ph.D., Yale University

Scholarly Interests

Resilience and coping with grief and trauma. Emotion and emotion regulation. The adaptive consequences of self-deception.
Website forthe PURL study (bereavement): http://www.tc.edu/thePURLstudy
Website for the Emotion, Stress, and Relationship Lab: http://devweb.tc.columbia.edu/research/esrl/
Published this fall, The Other Side of Sadness: http://www.theothersideofsadness.com/



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, I. R., Bonanno, G. A., & Mancini, A. D. (in press). From Marianthal to Latent Growth Mixture Modeling: A return to the exploration of individual differences in response to unemployment. Journal of Neuroscience, Psychology, and Economics

 

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 Hong Kong: A latent class approach. Health Psychology, 27, 659-667.         

 

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 childhood sexual abuse. Emotion, 7, 824-837.

 

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 Bonanno

George A. Bonanno

Professor of Education and Psychology

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