Benjamin L. Hankin

25.1k total citations · 8 hit papers
232 papers, 18.3k citations indexed

About

Benjamin L. Hankin is a scholar working on Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Benjamin L. Hankin has authored 232 papers receiving a total of 18.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 191 papers in Clinical Psychology, 119 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 62 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Benjamin L. Hankin's work include Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (175 papers), Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes (76 papers) and Mental Health Research Topics (50 papers). Benjamin L. Hankin is often cited by papers focused on Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (175 papers), Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes (76 papers) and Mental Health Research Topics (50 papers). Benjamin L. Hankin collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Canada. Benjamin L. Hankin's co-authors include Lyn Y. Abramson, John R. Z. Abela, Hannah R. Snyder, Jami F. Young, Rob McGee, Terrie E. Moffitt, Phil A. Silva, Robin J. Mermelstein, Amy H. Mezulis and Akira Miyake and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Psychological Bulletin and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Benjamin L. Hankin

224 papers receiving 17.5k citations

Hit Papers

Development of depression from preadolescence to young ad... 1998 2026 2007 2016 1998 2001 2004 2015 2007 500 1000 1.5k
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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Development of depression from preadolescence to young adulthood: Emerging gender differences in a 10-year longitudinal study.
    1998 1.8k citations Benjamin L. Hankin et al. Journal of Abnormal Psychology profile →
  2. Development of gender differences in depression: An elaborated cognitive vulnerability–transactional stress theory.
    2001 1.0k citations Benjamin L. Hankin et al. profile →
  3. Is There a Universal Positivity Bias in Attributions? A Meta-Analytic Review of Individual, Developmental, and Cultural Differences in the Self-Serving Attributional Bias.
    2004 879 citations Benjamin L. Hankin et al. profile →
  4. Advancing understanding of executive function impairments and psychopathology: bridging the gap between clinical and cognitive approaches
    2015 688 citations Hannah R. Snyder, Benjamin L. Hankin et al. profile →
  5. Sex Differences in Adolescent Depression: Stress Exposure and Reactivity Models
    2007 626 citations Benjamin L. Hankin, Robin J. Mermelstein et al. profile →
  6. Development of depression from preadolescence to young adulthood: Emerging gender differences in a 10-year longitudinal study.
    1998 598 citations Benjamin L. Hankin et al. Journal of Abnormal Psychology profile →
  7. Neuroticism and common mental disorders: Meaning and utility of a complex relationship
    2013 437 citations Benjamin L. Hankin, Albertine J. Oldehinkel et al. profile →
  8. Depression from childhood into late adolescence: Influence of gender, development, genetic susceptibility, and peer stress.
    2015 318 citations Benjamin L. Hankin, Jami F. Young et al. Journal of Abnormal Psychology profile →

Peers

Benjamin L. Hankin
Katie A. McLaughlin United States
Mária Kovács United States
Bruce F. Chorpita United States
Nancy A. Sampson United States
Mark R. Dadds Australia
Judy Garber United States
Jennifer S. Silk United States
Constance Hammen United States
Louise Arseneault United Kingdom
Carol A. Prescott United States
Katie A. McLaughlin United States
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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Smolker, Harry R., et al.. (2025). Individual differences in intolerance of uncertainty is primarily linked to the structure of inferior frontal regions. Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience. 25(3). 727–743. 1 indexed citations
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Doom, Jenalee R., et al.. (2025). Investigating the dynamic relations between maternal sleep and depression across pregnancy. PubMed. 12. 100139–100139.
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Deer, LillyBelle K., et al.. (2024). Placental CRH Trajectories During Gestation and Infant Outcomes. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 160. 106697–106697.
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Marchetti, Igor, Ernst H. W. Koster, & Benjamin L. Hankin. (2024). Which Psychosocial Risks Are Necessary for Developing Depression During Adolescence? A Novel Approach Applying Necessary Condition Analysis. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. 64(10). 1201–1209. 3 indexed citations
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Demers, Catherine H., Benjamin L. Hankin, E. Michelle Todd, et al.. (2024). Maternal adverse childhood experiences and infant visual-limbic white matter development. Journal of Affective Disorders. 367. 49–57. 1 indexed citations
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Snyder, Hannah R., et al.. (2023). Composite Measures of Brain Activation Predict Individual Differences in Behavioral Stroop Interference. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 35(5). 781–801. 2 indexed citations
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Clark, Hannah M., Benjamin L. Hankin, Angela J. Narayan, & Elysia Poggi Davis. (2023). Risk and resilience factors for psychopathology during pregnancy: An application of the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP). Development and Psychopathology. 36(2). 545–561. 17 indexed citations
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Demers, Catherine H., Benjamin L. Hankin, Sun Hyung Kim, et al.. (2022). Maternal adverse childhood experiences and infant subcortical brain volume. Neurobiology of Stress. 21. 100487–100487. 16 indexed citations
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Slovák, Petr, Brett Q. Ford, Sherri C. Widen, et al.. (2021). An In Situ, Child-Led Intervention to Promote Emotion Regulation Competence in Middle Childhood: Protocol for an Exploratory Randomized Controlled Trial. JMIR Research Protocols. 10(11). e28914–e28914. 9 indexed citations
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Demers, Catherine H., Sarah E. Garcia, Martin Styner, et al.. (2021). Exposure to prenatal maternal distress and infant white matter neurodevelopment. Development and Psychopathology. 33(5). 1526–1538. 23 indexed citations
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Bosmans, Guy, Luc Goossens, Karla Van Leeuwen, et al.. (2021). Epigenetics in Families: Covariance between Mother and Child Methylation Patterns. Brain Sciences. 11(2). 190–190. 7 indexed citations
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Garcia, Sarah E., et al.. (2019). Does Brief Psychotherapy with Distressed Pregnant Women Benefit Mother and Baby. Zero to three. 39(5). 23–32. 1 indexed citations
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Oppenheimer, Caroline W., et al.. (2019). Parenting and Youth Onset of Depression Across Three Years: Examining the Influence of Observed Parenting on Child and Adolescent Depressive Outcomes. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology. 47(12). 1969–1980. 20 indexed citations
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Masselink, Maurits, Eeske van Roekel, Benjamin L. Hankin, et al.. (2018). The Longitudinal Association between Self–Esteem and Depressive Symptoms in Adolescents: Separating Between–Person Effects from Within–Person Effects. European Journal of Personality. 32(6). 653–671. 95 indexed citations
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Jenness, Jessica L., Jami F. Young, & Benjamin L. Hankin. (2017). 5-HTTLPR moderates the association between attention away from angry faces and prospective depression among youth. Journal of Psychiatric Research. 91. 83–89. 7 indexed citations
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Hazel, Nicholas A., et al.. (2014). Parent relationship quality buffers against the effect of peer stressors on depressive symptoms from middle childhood to adolescence.. Developmental Psychology. 50(8). 2115–2123. 131 indexed citations
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Abela, John R. Z. & Benjamin L. Hankin. (2008). Handbook of depression in children and adolescents. Guilford Press eBooks. 140 indexed citations
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Weinstein, Sally M., Robin J. Mermelstein, Donald Hedeker, Benjamin L. Hankin, & Brian R. Flay. (2006). The Time-Varying Influences of Peer and Family Support on Adolescent Daily Positive and Negative Affect. Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology. 35(3). 420–430. 69 indexed citations
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Hankin, Benjamin L., R. Chris Fraley, Benjamin B. Lahey, & Irwin D. Waldman. (2005). Is Depression Best Viewed as a Continuum or Discrete Category? A Taxometric Analysis of Childhood and Adolescent Depression in a Population-Based Sample.. Journal of Abnormal Psychology. 114(1). 96–110. 298 indexed citations

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