Although social psychology has been traditionally focused on interpersonal relationships,
the cognitive revolution in psychology has had the effect of refocusing some social …

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 …

We present a revision of the 1978 reformulated theory of helplessness and depression and
call it the hopelessness theory of depression. Although the 1978 reformulation has …

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 …

Vulnerability to emotional disorders is thought to lie in memory representations (eg negative
self-schemas) that are activated by triggering events and maintain negative mood. There …

Do negative cognitive styles provide similar vulnerability to first onsets versus recurrences of
depressive disorders, and are these associations specific to depression? The authors …

Interest in cognitive schemata and the applications of schema theory to the study of clinical
problems is a relatively recent development. Schemata about the self are considered an …

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 …

Examines 5 broad areas of cognitive functioning: expectations and evaluations of
performance, perception of environmental information, recall of information, cognitive …

Three studies found that self-esteem moderates the relation between mood and self-
evaluation. In Study 1, a standard mood-induction procedure was used to induce positive …