Department of Psychology

Research Interests

Social and cognitive processes of adjusting to trauma and loss, including processes of finding meaning, deriving benefit from adversity, and personal growth.

Publications

Nolen-Hoeksema, S., & Davis, C. G. (2002). Positive responses to loss: Perceiving benefits and growth. In C. R. Snyder & S. Lopez, (Eds.), Handbook of positive psychology. (pp. 598-607). New York: Oxford University Press.

Davis, C. G., & Nolen-Hoeksema, S. (2001). Loss and meaning: How do people make sense of loss? American Behavioral Scientist,44, 726-741.

Davis, C. G. (2001). The tormented and the transformed: Understanding responses to loss and trauma. In R. A. Neimeyer, (Ed.), Meaning reconstruction and the experience of loss. (pp. 137-155). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Davis, C. G., Wortman, C. B., Lehman, D. R., & Silver, R. C. (2000). Searching for meaning in loss: Are clinical assumptions correct? Death Studies, 24, 497-540. Nolen-Hoeksema, S., &

Nolen-Hoeksema, S., & Davis, C. G. (1999). "Thanks for sharing that:" Ruminators and their social support networks. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 77, 801-814.

Davis, C. G., Nolen-Hoeksema, S., & Larson, J. (1998). Making sense of loss and benefiting from the experience: Two construals of meaning. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 75, 561-574.

Kessler, R. C., Davis, C. G., & Kendler, K. S. (1997). Childhood adversity and adult psychiatric disorder in the U.S. National Comorbidity Survey. Psychological Medicine, 27, 1101-1119.

Kendler, K. S., Davis, C. G., & Kessler, R. C. (1997). The familial aggregation of common psychiatric and substance use disorders in the National Comorbidity Survey: A family history study. British Journal of Psychiatry, 170, 541-548.

de Vries, B,. Davis, C. G., Wortman, C. B., & Lehman, D. R. (1997). Long-term psychological and somatic consequences of later life parental bereavement. Special Issue: Omega: Journal of Death and Dying, 35, 97-117.

Davis, C. G., Lehman, D. R., Silver, R. C., Wortman, C. B., & Ellard, J. H. (1996). Self-blame following a traumatic event: The role of perceived avoidability. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 22, 557-567.

de Vries, B., Jacoby, C., & Davis, C. G. (1996). Ethnic differences in later life friendship. Canadian Journal on Aging, 15, 226-244.

Davis, C. G., Lehman, D. R., Wortman, C. B., Silver, R. C., & Thompson, S. C. (1995). The undoing of traumatic life events. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 21, 109-124.

Wortman, C. B., Carnelley, K. B., Lehman, D. R., Davis, C. G., & Exline, J. J. (1995). Coping with the loss of a family member: Implications for community-level research and interventions. In S. E. Hobfoll & M. W. deVries (Eds.), Extreme stress and communities: Impact and intervention (pp. 83-103). Dordrecht, the Netherlands: Kluwer.

Davis, C. G., & Lehman, D. R. (1995). Counterfactual thinking and coping with traumatic life events. In N. J. Roese & J. M. Olson (Eds.), What might have been: The social psychology of counterfactual thinking (pp. 353-374). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Lehman, D. R., Davis, C. G., DeLongis, A., Wortman, C. B., Bluck, S., Mandel, D. R., & Ellard, J. H. (1993). Positive and negative life changes following bereavement and their relations to adjustment. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 12, 90-112.