Megan Hughes, M.A

E-mail: hughesm@temple.edu

 

Bio: Megan is a fifth year graduate student at Temple. She graduated from Princeton University and earned her MA at Temple. Her research has focused on responses to negative and positive affect, including depressive rumination, worry, dampening, and positive rumination. Her dissertation will examine the psychological and physical health impact of dampening and positive rumination.

 

Representative presentations and/or publications:

 

Hughes, M. E., Alloy, L. B., & Cogswell, A. (2006). Repetitive thought in psychopathology: The relation of rumination and worry to mood and anxiety symptoms. Manuscript accepted for publication with revisions. Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy: An International Quarterly.

 

Hughes, M. E., Alloy, L. B., Cogswell, A., & Smith, J. (2005, May). Repetitive thought in psychopathology: Overlap between rumination and worry. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Society, Los Angeles, CA.

 

Hughes, M. E., Panzarella, C., Alloy, L. B., & Abramson, L. Y. (2007). Mental illness and mental health. In F.T. Durso (Ed.), Handbook of applied cognition, 2nd Edition (pp. 629- 658). New York, NY: Wiley.