Lauren B. Alloy is an internationally recognized researcher in the area of mood disorders. Her work on depression has had a major impact on the fields of clinical, personality, social, and cognitive psychology. She is currently Professor of Psychology at Temple University. Previously, at Northwestern University, she became the youngest professor in the university's history and the first woman to become professor in the Northwestern Psychology department. She received both her B.A. and Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Alloy was awarded the American Psychological Association's Young Psychologist Award at the XXIII International Congress of Psychology in 1984 and the Northwestern University College of Arts & Sciences Great Teacher Award in 1988 for her classroom teaching and mentoring of students. Recently, Dr. Alloy won the Paul W. Eberman Faculty Research Award in 2000-2001 from Temple University and the 2002 American Psychological Association's Master Lecturer in Psychopathology Award (jointly with Dr. Lyn Abramson of the University of Wisconsin). She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the American Psychological Society. Dr. Alloy is the author of well more than 100 scholarly publications, including her 1988 book, Cognitive Processes in Depression, and her undergraduate abnormal psychology textbook, Abnormal Psychology: Current Perspectives, now going into its 9th edition. Dr. Alloy's research on depression and bipolar disorder has been continuously funded by large grants from the National Institute of Mental Health and the MacArthur Foundation since 1982. Dr. Alloy has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Cognitive Therapy and Research, and the Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy: An International Quarterly; she is the associate editor of Psychopathology Research and has served as guest editor for the Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Cognitive Therapy and Research, the Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy: An International Quarterly, and the Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology. She regularly teaches courses on psychopathology and mood disorders.
Dr. Alloy's research focuses on cognitive, interpersonal, psychosocial, and biological processes in the onset and maintenance of depression and bipolar disorder. Along with her colleagues, Drs. Lyn Abramson and Gerry Metalsky, she is the author of the hopelessness theory of depression, and she discovered, with Lyn Abramson, the "sadder but wiser," or "depressive realism," effect. Dr. Alloy's research provides the first demonstration that negative cognitive styles or thinking patterns increase people's vulnerability for developing first onsets and recurrences of major depressive disorder. In her leisure time, Dr. Alloy enjoys sports, the theater, and good restaurants, and she is a movie fanatic. But, most of all, she loves being with her husband, Daniel, and daughter, Adrienne.
Lauren B. Alloy is an internationally recognized researcher in the area of mood disorders. Her work on depression has had a major impact on the fields of clinical, personality, social, and cognitive psychology. She is currently Professor of Psychology at Temple University. Previously, at Northwestern University, she became the youngest professor in the university's history and the first woman to become professor in the Northwestern Psychology department. She received both her B.A. and Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Alloy was awarded the American Psychological Association's Young Psychologist Award at the XXIII International Congress of Psychology in 1984 and the Northwestern University College of Arts & Sciences Great Teacher Award in 1988 for her classroom teaching and mentoring of students. Recently, Dr. Alloy won the Paul W. Eberman Faculty Research Award in 2000-2001 from Temple University and the 2002 American Psychological Association's Master Lecturer in Psychopathology Award (jointly with Dr. Lyn Abramson of the University of Wisconsin). She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the American Psychological Society. Dr. Alloy is the author of well more than 100 scholarly publications, including her 1988 book, Cognitive Processes in Depression, and her undergraduate abnormal psychology textbook, Abnormal Psychology: Current Perspectives, now going into its 9th edition. Dr. Alloy's research on depression and bipolar disorder has been continuously funded by large grants from the National Institute of Mental Health and the MacArthur Foundation since 1982. Dr. Alloy has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Cognitive Therapy and Research, and the Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy: An International Quarterly; she is the associate editor of Psychopathology Research and has served as guest editor for the Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Cognitive Therapy and Research, the Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy: An International Quarterly, and the Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology. She regularly teaches courses on psychopathology and mood disorders. 