Researchers have suggested the presence of a self-serving attributional bias, with people
making more internal, stable, and global attributions for positive events than for negative …

This paper reviews recent research that indicates the importance of differentiating subtypes
of depression based on two types of experiences that lead individuals to become …

When experience with uncontrollable events gives rise to the expectation that events in the
future will also elude control, disruptions in motivation, emotion, and learning may ensue." …

In this article we attempt to distinguish empirically between psychosocial variables that are
concomitants of depression, and variables that may serve as antecedents or sequelae of this …

Studies testing cognitive theory of depression (Beck, 1963, 1987) and defining depression
as a clinical syndrome are reviewed. Many aspects of the theory's descriptive claims about …

This is the first work to condense the large literature on explanatory style--one's tendency to
offer similar sorts of explanations for different events. This cognitive variable has been …

This research tested the idea that a cognitive vulnerability to depression can be concealed
by thought suppression and revealed when cognitive demands undermine mental control …

Diathesis–stress predictions regarding the onset of adolescent major depression and
nonmood disorders were tested. Adolescents (N= 1,507) were assessed for dysfunctional …

To test the hypothesis that self-report of dysfunctional attitudes is mood-state dependent,
dysfunctional attitudes were assessed in 43 women before and after they received a …

This study investigated the possible relationship between negative processing biases and
subsequent depression. The Scrambled Sentences Test (SST), a measure of processing …