Cloud Nine

. . . . Traditionally, people suffering from depression were thought to harbor an unrealistically negative view of world -- a delusional negativity was seen to be the cause of their despondency. Alloy and Abramson were surprised to find depressed people showed a “surprising degree of accuracy” in judging how the blinking light affected by their manipulation of the button (in the Lab. Experiment) Meanwhile, the non-depressed subjects consistently ‘overrated’ their ability to control the blinking light. In other words, the gap between the groups was not caused by the healthy group seeing reality clearly and the depressed people seen the world with delusional pessimism. No, the “healthy” group had a ‘delusion of control’ while their ‘unhealthy’ counterparts were ‘seeing reality clearly. The subtitle of the psychologists paper was “Sadder but Wiser.” . . . Page 88

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