Depressive realism is the hypothesis, developed by the psychologists Lauren Alloy and Lyn Yvonne Abramson, that depressed individuals make more realistic inferences about the world than non-depressed individuals do. Depressed people are conventionally thought to hold a negative cognitive bias that produces recurrent negative automatic thoughts, maladaptive behaviors and dysfunctional beliefs about the world; depressive realism argues instead that this apparent negativity may actually reflect a more accurate appraisal of reality, and that it is non-depressed individuals whose own appraisals are positively biased rather than simply correct.
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Type of Phenomenon Core ClaimDepressed individuals make more realistic inferences than non-depressed individuals 1 Connections
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Depressive realism is the hypothesis developed by Lauren Alloy and Lyn Yvonne Abramson that depressed individuals make more realistic inferences than non-depressed individuals.
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Depressed people are conventionally thought to hold a negative cognitive bias that produces recurrent negative automatic thoughts, maladaptive behaviors and dysfunctional beliefs about the world; depressive realism argues instead that this apparent negativity may actually reflect a more accurate appraisal of reality, and that it is non-depressed individuals whose own appraisals are positively biased rather than simply correct.
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Wikipedia article 'Depressive realism' is filed under Category:Cognitive biases.
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