Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience: The University of Chicago
Louise C. Hawkley
The University of Chicago
Social Neuroscience Lab
940 E. 57th Street
Chicago, IL, 60637Office Phone: (773) 834-9152
Fax: (773) 702-6898
Office: 425A BPSB
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Social Neuroscience Laboratory
Faculty
Louise C. Hawkley
Biography
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Louise Hawkley is the Associate Director of the Social Neuroscience Laboratory and a Senior Research Scientist with the Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience and the Department of Psychology at the University of Chicago. She graduated with a B.A. in psychology (1995) from Bethel College, Kansas, and a Ph.D. in psychology (2001) from the Ohio State University. Her early research was funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and explored the psychological and physiological correlates of loneliness in young adults. She is currently involved in a longitudinal multi-disciplinary project funded by the National Institutes of Health and the John Templeton Foundation evaluating sociological, psychological, religious/spiritual, and physiological aspects of social isolation and loneliness in middle- and older-age adults. |
Research Interests
- Loneliness, social connectedness, and health
- Autonomic, immune, and endocrine functioning
- Stress and aging
Representative Publications
Hawkley, L. C., Thisted, R. A., Masi, C. M., & Cacioppo, J. T. (in press). Loneliness predicts increased blood pressure: Five-year cross-lagged analyses in middle-aged and older adults. Psychology & Aging.
Cacioppo, J. T., Hawkley, L. C., & Thisted, R. A. (in press). Perceived social isolation makes me sad: Five year cross-lagged analyses of loneliness and depressive symptomatology in the Chicago Health, Aging, and Social Relations Study. Psychology and Aging.
Cacioppo, J. T., & Hawkley, L. C. (2009). Perceived social isolation and cognition. Trends in Cognitive Science, 13, 447-454.
Hawkley, L. C., Thisted, R. A., & Cacioppo, J. T. (2009). Loneliness predicts reduced physical activity: Cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses. Health Psychology, 28, 354-363.
Hawkley, L. C., Hughes, M. E., Waite, L., J., Masi, C. M., Thisted, R. A., & Cacioppo, J. T. (2008). From social structural factors to perceptions of relationship quality and loneliness: The Chicago Health, Aging, and Social Relations Study. Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences, 63B, S375-S384.
Cole, S. W., Hawkley, L. C., Arevalo, J. M., Sung, C. Y., Rose, R. M., & Cacioppo, J. T. (2007). Social regulation of gene expression in humans: Glucocorticoid resistance in the leukocyte transcriptome. Genome Biology, 8, R189.1-R189.13.
Hawkley, L. C., & Cacioppo, J. T. (2007). Aging and loneliness: Downhill quickly? Current Directions in Psychological Science, 16, 187-191.
Cacioppo, J. T., Hawkley, L. C., Ernst, J. M., Burleson, M. H., Berntson, G. G., Nouriani, B., & Spiegel, D. (2006). Loneliness within a nomological net: An evolutionary perspective. Journal of Research in Personality, 40, 1054-1085.
Adam, E. K., Hawkley, L. C., Kudielka, B. M., & Cacioppo, J. T. (2006). Day-to-day dynamics of experience-cortisol associations in a population-based sample of older adults. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 103, 17058-17063.
