Lauren B. Alloy is a professor of psychology at Temple University recognized in the area of mood disorders. Her research focuses on cognitive, interpersonal, and biopsychosocial processes in the onset and maintenance of depression and bipolar disorder. In the late 1970s, Alloy and her longtime collaborator Lyn Abramson demonstrated that depressed individuals hold a more accurate view of their control of the social environment than do non-depressed individuals. Wikipedia
Faculty: Lauren B. Alloy, Ph.D. Lauren B. Alloy is Professor and Joseph Wolpe Distinguished Faculty Fellow in the Department of Psychology, Temple University. www.temple.edu/psychology/FacultyWebs/Alloy/alloy.html
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