Investing in the Personality Vulnerability Research Program--Current Dividends and Future Growth: Rejoinder to Coyne, Thompson, and Whiffen (2004).

The authors do not see any benefit to J. C. Coyne, R. Thompson, and V. Whiffen’s (2004) proposal todraw sharp boundaries between psychodynamic vulnerability theories, research on the onset of syndro-mal depression, and research with vulnerable, nondepressed populations. These domains have been andremain mutually relevant. Coyne et al. did not bring forward new evidence concerning the 6 issuesaddressed by D. C. Zuroff, M. Mongrain, and D. A....