Selected Publications

For a full list of publications, see documents and papers.

Gupta, S., & Bonanno, G. A. (in press). Trait self-enhancement as a buffer against potentially traumatic events: A prospective study. Psychological Trauma

Westphal, M., Seivert, N. H., & Bonanno, G. A. (in press). Expressive flexibility. Emotion

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.

Bonanno, G. A., & Mancini, A. D. (2009). Beyond resilience and PTSD: Mapping the heterogeneity of responses to potential trauma. Psychological Trauma.

            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

Goorin, L., & Bonanno, G. A. (2009). Would you buy a used car from a self-enhancer? Social benefits and illusions in trait Self-enhancement. Self and Identity, 8, 162-175.

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.

Bonanno, G. A., & Mancini, A. D. (2008). The human capacity to thrive in the face of extreme adversity. Pediatrics, 121, 369-375.

            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.

Bonanno, G. A. (2006). Is Complicated Grief a valid construct? Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 13, 129-134.

Lalande, K., & Bonanno, G. A. (2006). Culture and continued bonds during bereavement: A prospective comparison in the United States and China. Death Studies, 30, 303-324.

Bonanno, G. A., Galea, S., Bucciarelli, A., & Vlahov, D. (2006).  Psychological resilience after disaster: New York City in the aftermath of the September 11^th Terrorist Attack. Psychological Science, 17, 181-186.

Fraley, R. C., Fazzari, D. A., Bonanno, G. A., & Dekel, S. (2006). Attachment and Psychological Adaptation in High Exposure Survivors of the September 11th Attack on the World Trade Center. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 32, 538 - 551.

Bonanno, G. A. (2005).*  Resilience in the face of potential trauma. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 14, 135-138. * Reprinted in S.O. Lilienfeld, J. Ruscio, & S. J Lynn (Eds.), Navigating the mindfield: A guide to separating science from pseudoscience in mental health (2008), Amherst, MA: Prometheus Books.

Bonanno, G. A., Rennicke, C., & Dekel, S. (2005). Self-Enhancement among high-exposure survivors of the September 11^th terrorist attack: Resilience or social maladjustment? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 88, 984-998.

Bonanno, G. A., Moskowitz, J. T., Papa, A., & Folkman, S. (2005). Resilience to loss in bereaved spouses, bereaved parents, and bereaved gay men. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 88, 827-843.

Bonanno, G. A. (2005). Clarifying and extending the construct of adult resilience. American Psychologist, 60, 265-267.

Boerner, K., Wortman, C. B., & Bonanno, G. A. (2005). Resilient or at risk?: A four-year study of older adults who initially showed high or low distress following conjugal loss. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Science, 60B, P67-P73.

Bonanno, G. A., Papa, A., Lalande, K., Nanping, Z., & Noll, J. G. (2005). Grief processing and deliberate grief avoidance: A prospective comparison of bereaved spouses and parents in the United States and People's Republic of China. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 73, 86-98.

Bonanno, G. A., Wortman, C. B., & Nesse, R. M.  (2004).  Prospective patterns of resilience and maladjustment during widowhood. Psychology and Aging, 19, 260-271.

Bonanno, G. A., Papa, A., Lalande, K., Westphal, M., & Coifman, K. (2004). The importance of being flexible: The ability to enhance and suppress emotional expression predicts long-term adjustment. Psychological Science, 157, 482-487.

Fraley, R. C., & Bonanno, G. A. (2004).  Attachment and loss: A test of three competing models on the association between attachment-related avoidance and adaptation to bereavement. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 30, 878-890.

Bonanno, G. A., & Keltner, D.  (2004). The coherence of emotion systems: Comparing "on-line" measures of appraisal and facial expression, and self-report. Cognition and Emotion, 18, 431-444.

Bonanno, G. A. (2004).* Loss, trauma, and human resilience: Have we underestimated the human capacity to thrive after extremely adverse events? American Psychologist, 59, 20-28.

*Identified as a New Hot Paper, based on citation frequency, Science Citation Index.

Noll, J.G., Horowitz, L. A., Bonanno, G. A., Trickett, P. K., & Putnam, F. W.  (2003). Revictimization and self-harm in females who experienced childhood sexual abuse: Results from a prospective study. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 18, 1452-1471.

Bonanno, G. A., Noll, J. G., Putnam, F. W., O'Neill, M., & Trickett, P.  (2003). Predicting the willingness to disclose childhood sexual abuse from measures of repressive coping and dissociative experiences. Child Maltreatment, 8, 1-17.

Field, N. P., Gal-Oz, E., & Bonanno, G. A.  (2003). Continuing bonds and adjustment at five years after the death of a spouse.  Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 71, 110-117.

Kaltman, S., & Bonanno, G. A.  (2003). Trauma and bereavement: Examining the impact of sudden and violent deaths. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 17, 131-147.

Bonanno, G. A., Wortman, C. B., Lehman, D. R., Tweed, R. G.,  Haring, M., Sonnega, J.,  Carr, D.,  & Neese, R. M. ( 2002). Resilience to loss and chronic grief: A prospective study from pre-loss to 18 months post-loss. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 83. 1150-1164.

Consedine, N., Magai, C., & Bonanno, G. A.  (2002). Moderators of the emotion inhibition-health relationship: A review and research agenda.  Review of General Psychology, 6, 204-238.

Bonanno, G. A., Keltner, D., Noll, J. G., Putnam, F. W., Trickett, P., LeJeune, J., & Anderson, C.  (2002). When the face reveals what words do not: Facial expressions of emotion, smiling, and the willingness to disclose childhood sexual abuse. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 83, 94-110.

Bonanno, G. A.,  Field, N. P., Kovacevic, A., & Kaltman, S.  (2002). Self-Enhancement as a buffer against extreme adversity: Civil war in Bosnia and traumatic loss in the United States. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 28, 184-196.

Bonanno, G. A.,  Papa, A., & O'Neill, K.  (2001). Loss and human resilience.  Applied and Preventative Psychology, 10, 193-206.

Bauer, J., & Bonanno, G. A.  (2001). I can, I do, I am: The narrative differentiation of self-efficacy and other self-evaluations while adapting to bereavement. Journal of Research in Personality, 35, 434-448.

Bauer, J., & Bonanno, G. A.  (2001). Continuity and discontinuity: Bridging one's past and present in stories of conjugal bereavement.  Narrative Inquiry, 11, 1-36.

Safer, M. A., Bonanno, G. A., & Field, N. P.  (2001). It was never that bad: Biased recall of grief and long-term adjustment to the death of a spouse. Memory, 9, 195-204.

Bonanno, G. A.  (2001). The crucial importance of empirical evidence in the development of bereavement theory: A reply to Archer (2001).  Psychological Bulletin, 127, 561-564.

Bauer, J. & Bonanno, G. A.  (2001). Being and doing well (for the most part): Adaptive patterns of narrative self-evaluation during bereavement. Journal of Personality, 69, 451-482.

Bonanno, G. A., & Kaltman, S.  (2001). The varieties of grief experience. Clinical Psychology Review, 21, 705-734.

Bonanno, G. A., & Field, N. P.  (2001). Examining the delayed grief hypothesis across five years of bereavement. American Behavioral Scientist, 44, 798-806.

Field, N. P., & Bonanno, G. A.  (2001). The role of blame on adaptation in the first five years following the death of a spouse. American Behavioral Scientist, 44, 764-781.     

Bonanno, G. A.  (2001). New directions in bereavement research and theory. American Behavioral Scientist, 44, 718-725.

Field, N. P., Bonanno, G. A., Williams, P., & Horowitz, M. J.  (2000).  Appraisals of blame in adjustment to conjugal bereavement.  Cognitive Therapy and Research, 24, p. 549-568.

Capps, L., & Bonanno, G. A.  (2000). Narrating bereavement: Thematic and grammatical predictors of adjustment to loss.  Discourse Processes, 30, 1-25.

Sherman, R., Bonanno, G. A., Wiener, L.,  & Battles, H. B.  (2000).  When children tell their friends they have AIDS: Possible consequences for psychological well-being and disease progression. Psychosomatic Medicine, 62, 238-247.

Bonanno, G. A., & Kaltman, S. (1999).  Toward an integrative perspective on bereavement.  Psychological Bulletin, 125, 760-776.

Bonanno, G. A., Znoj, H. J., Siddique, H., & Horowitz, M. J. (1999). Verbal-autonomic response dissociation and adaptation to midlife conjugal loss: A follow-up at 25 months. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 23, 605-624.

Bonanno, G. A. (1999). Laughter during bereavement.  Bereavement Care, 18, 19-22.

Bonanno, G. A., Notarius, C. I., Gunzerath, L., Keltner, D., & Horowitz, M. J.  (1998). Interpersonal ambivalence, perceived dyadic adjustment, and conjugal loss. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 66,1012-1022.

Keltner, D., & Bonanno, G. A.  (1997). A study of laughter and dissociation: Distinct correlates of laughter and smiling during bereavement. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 73, 687-702.

Horowitz, M. J., Siegel, B., Holen, A., Bonanno, G. A., Milbrath, C. & Stinson, C. (1997). Diagnostic criteria for Complicated Grief Disorder: An empirical evaluation. American Journal of Psychiatry, 154, 904-910.

Bonanno, G. A., & Keltner, D.  (1997).  Facial expressions of emotion and the course of conjugal bereavement. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 106, 126-137.

Bonanno, G. A., Keltner, D., Holen, A., & Horowitz, M. J.  (1995). When avoiding unpleasant emotions might not be such a bad thing: Verbal-autonomic response dissociation and midlife conjugal bereavement.  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 69, 975-989.

Horowitz, M. J., Bonanno, G. A., & Holen, A.  (1993).  Pathological grief: Diagnosis and explanation. Psychosomatic Medicine, 55, 260-273.

Bonanno, G. A., Davis, P. J., Singer, J. L., & Schwartz, G. E.  (1991). The repressor personality and avoidant information processing: A dichotic listening study. Journal of Research in Personality, 25, 386-401.

            Bonanno, G. A.  (1990). Remembering and psychotherapy. Psychotherapy, 27, 175‑186.

Davis, P. J., Singer, J. L., Bonanno, G. A., & Schwartz, G. E. (1988).  Repressor personality style and response bias during an affective memory recognition task: A signal detection analysis. Australian Journal of Psychology, 40, 147‑157.

            Bonanno, G. A., & Stillings, N. A.  (1986).  Preference, familiarity, and recognition after brief exposures to random geometric shapes. American Journal of Psychology, 99, 403‑415.