Lauren Alloy

Lauren B. Alloy (born Lauren Helene Bersh; November 22, 1953)[1] is an American psychologist, recognized for her research on mood disorders. Along with colleagues Lyn Abramson and Gerald Metalsky, she developed the hopelessness theory of depression. With Abramson, she also developed the depressive realism hypothesis. Alloy is a professor of psychology at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

  1. ^ B. Alloy, Lauren (2016), "Alloy, Lauren", in Zeigler-Hill, Virgil; Shackelford, Todd K. (eds.), Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences, Springer International Publishing, pp. 1–7, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_358-1, ISBN 978-3-319-28099-8