Geraldine Downey
Affiliation
- Faculty Fellow, Department of Psychology
Research
Geraldine Downey is Associate Professor and chair in Psychology, where she directs the departmentÂ's Social Relations Laboratory. A developmental psychologist, she has conducted extensive research on rejection sensitivity in the context of interpersonal relationships and of institutional settings such as schools; she has also studied social factors in depression, schizophrenia, and suicidal ideation.
Selected Work
- Navigating the Future: Social Identity, Coping, and Life Tasks. Eds. Geraldine Downey, Jacquelynne Eccles, and Celina M. Chatman. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2005.
- "Does Rejection Elicit Hostility in Rejection-Sensitive Women?" Downey, G., Ayduk, O., Testa, A., Yen, Y. and Shoda, Y. Social Cognition, 17, pp. 245-271
- "Social Cognition in Relationships: Building Essential Bridges Between Two Literatures" Downey, G. and Reis, H. Social Cognition: Special Issue on Social Cognition and Relationships, 17, pp. 91-117, 1999
- "Anger Transmission from Mother to Child: A Comparison of Mothers in Chronic Pain and Well Mothers" Downey, G., Purdie, V. and Schaffner-Neitz, R. Journal of Marriage & the Family, 61, pp. 62-73, 1999
See Also
- Featured publication: Navigating the Future: Social Identity, Coping, and Life Tasks
