The focus of pessimism in performance assessments by the depressed.
The study concerns the microstructure of pessimistic judgements concerning personal performance in the depressed. The cognitive bias hypothesis was only supported for global estimates of performance and not for trial-by-trial decisions. This weakens the view that there is a fixed cognitive pessimistic bias and leaves open the possibility either that differences relate to the assessment of frequency or to protective strategies operated by the depressed.
Centre for Occupational and Health Psychology, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK.
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001290:Attitude; D003863:Depression / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006380:Helplessness, Learned; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010056:Overlearning; D010555:Personality Inventory; D011597:Psychomotor Performance; D012649:Self Concept