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Citation

Dunning D, Story AL. J. Pers. Soc. Psychol. 1991; 61(4): 521-532.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853-7601.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1991, American Psychological Association)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

1960645

Abstract

Do depressed individuals make more realistic judgments than their nondepressed peers in real world settings? Depressed and nondepressed Ss in 2 studies were asked to make predictions about future actions and outcomes that might occur in their personal academic and social worlds. Both groups of Ss displayed overconfidence, that is, they overestimated the likelihood that their predictions would prove to be accurate. Of key importance, depressed Ss were less accurate in their predictions, and thus more overconfident, than their nondepressed counterparts. These differences arose because depressed Ss (a) were more likely to predict the occurrence of low base-rate events and (b) were less likely to be correct when they made optimistic predictions (i.e., stated that positive events would occur or that aversive outcomes would not). Discussion focuses on implications of these findings for the depressive realism hypothesis.


Language: en

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