Her research explored how mood regulation strategies could correlate to a person's vulnerability to depression, with special focus on a depression-related construct she called rumination as well as gender differences.
Susan Nolen-Hoeksema attended Yale University where she received a Bachelor of Arts with a major in psychology.
As a graduate student, Susan's research focused primarily on understanding the predictors of depression among children and adolescents.
[6] Susan was honored with the Yale graduate school's mentoring prize since 2005, and the founding editor of the Annual Review of Clinical Psychology from 2005 to 2013.
[7] She died on January 2, 2013, of complications from heart surgery to repair damage caused by a blood infection.