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492 APPENDIX CAppendix CAuthor BiographiesLyn Abramson, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychology,University of Wisconsin. Her research focuses on vulnerability and invulnerabilityto depression, with particular interest in the developmental, cognitive,motivational, and cultural determinants of information processing about the self.She has begun to explore the effects of early psychological, physical, and sexualmaltreatment on the development of cognitive styles and vulnerability to depressionin adulthood.Lauren B. Alloy, Ph.D., is Professor and Joseph Wolpe Distinguished FacultyFellow in the Department of Psychology, Temple University. Her research focuseson cognitive, psychosocial, and, recently, biological processes in the onset andcourse of depression and bipolar disorder. She studies the role of cognitive, psychosocial,and biological vulnerabilities in the context of developmental processesas precursors of mood disorders.Karen L. Bales, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology atthe University of California, Davis, and an Affiliate Scientist at the CaliforniaNational Primate Research Center. She studies the physiology, neurobiology, anddevelopment of social bonding in monogamous species, including prairie voles,titi monkeys, and golden lion tamarins. She is particularly interested in the roles492