Louise Hawkley is the Associate Director of the Social Neuroscience Laboratory

The University of Chicago
Social Neuroscience Lab
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Louise C. Hawkley
Background
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. She is currently funded by the National Institute on Aging in several longitudinal multi-disciplinary studies of the sociological, psychological, religious, genetic, and physiological aspects of social isolation and loneliness in young to 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., & Cacioppo, J. T. (2010). Loneliness matters: A theoretical and empirical review of consequences and mechanisms. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 40, 218–227.
Masi, C. M., Chen, H.-Y., Hawkley, L. C., & Cacioppo, J. T. (2010). A meta-analysis of interventions to reduce loneliness. Personality and Social Psychology Review. Published online 17 August 2010. DOI: 10.1177/1088868310377394.

Cacioppo, J. T., Hawkley, L. C., & Thisted, R. A. (2010). 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, 25, 453-463.

Hawkley, L. C., Thisted, R. A., Masi, C. M., & Cacioppo, J. T. (2010). Loneliness predicts increased blood pressure: Five-year cross-lagged analyses in middle-aged and older adults. Psychology & Aging, 25, 132-141.

Hawkley, L. C., Preacher, K. J., & Cacioppo, J. T. (2010). Loneliness impairs daytime functioning but not sleep duration. Health Psychology, 29, 124-129.

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. PubMed # 19450042; NIHMSID #146884.

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.

Hawkley, L. C., Bosch, J. A., Engeland, C. G., Marucha, P. T., & Cacioppo, J. T. (2007). Loneliness, dysphoria, stress and immunity: A role for cytokines. N. Plotnikoff et al., Eds. Cytokines: Stress, & Immunity, 2nd ed. (pp. 67-85). Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.

Hawkley, L. C., Preacher, K. J., & Cacioppo, J. T. (2007). Multilevel modeling of social interactions and mood in lonely and socially connected individuals: The MacArthur Social Neuroscience Studies. In A.D. Ong, & M.H.M. van Dulmen (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Methods in Positive Psychology (pp. 559-575). New York: Oxford University Press.

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. PNAS, 103, 17058-17063.

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.

Hawkley, L. C., Masi, C. M., Berry, J. D., & Cacioppo, J. T. (in press). Loneliness is a unique predictor of age-related differences in systolic blood pressure. Psychology and Aging, 21, 152-164.

Hawkley, L. C., Berntson, G. G., Engeland, C. G., Marucha, P. T., Masi, C. M., & Cacioppo, J. T. (2005). Stress, aging, and resilience: Can accrued wear and tear be slowed? Canadian Psychology, 46, 115-125.

Hawkley, L. C., Browne, M. W., & Cacioppo, J. T. (2005). How can I connect with thee? Let me count the ways. Psychological Science, 16, 798-804.

Cacioppo, J. T., & Hawkley, L. C. (2005). People thinking about people: The vicious cycle of being a social outcast in one’s own mind. In K.P. Williams, J.P. Forgas, & W. von Hippel (Eds.), The Social Outcast: Ostracism, Social Exclusion, Rejection, and Bullying (pp. 91-108). New York: Psychology Press.

Hawkley, L. C., & Cacioppo, J. T. (2004). Stress and the aging immune system. Brain, Behavior, & Immunity, 18, 114-119.

Hawkley, L. C., Burleson, M. H., Berntson, G. G., & Cacioppo, J. T. (2003). Loneliness in everyday life: Cardiovascular activity, psychosocial context, and health behaviors. Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, 85, 105-120.