Cognitive vulnerability is a central concept in cognitive theories of unipolar depression. This
idea suggests that negative cognitive factors emerge during stressful situations, and that this …

Temple University, Philadelphia ln this article, we review findings from the Temple-
Wisconsin Cognitive Vulnerability to Depression (CVD) Project (Alloy & Abramson, 1999) …

This study examines the performance of 40 previously depressed and 40 never depressed
women on a computerized deployment-of-attention task. Half of the subjects completed the …

Ever since their introduction in the late 1960s, cognitive theories of vulnerability to
depression have generated a vast amount of empirical attention (Abramson et al., 2002; …

Cognitive theories of depression have been shown to be potent predictors of future
increases in depressive symptoms and disorder in children, adolescents, and adults. This …

Cognitive theories of psychopathology posit that maladaptive patterns of cognitions confer
elevated risks to individuals in the development of psychological disorders. This meta …

Cognitive models of depression have nominated specific risk factors for symptom onset or
recurrence of affective disorder. The variables identified in these accounts are largely …

According to the cognitive-vulnerability hypothesis of depression, negative cognitive styles
confer vulnerability to depression when people confront negative life events. In this article …

This study evaluates a pathway for depressive risk that integrates cognitive diathesis-stress
and stress-generation theories, following Hankin and Abramson's (2001, Journal of Clinical …

What makes some people more vulnerable than others to depression? Do depressed
individuals have characteristic thinking and reasoning styles? How can cognitive …