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Download full textWalter, Todd J.; And Others – 1993
Research has demonstrated that depressed people lack the optimistic bias evidenced by nondepressed persons and that the former may be more realistic in predicting the outcome of future events (depressive realism hypothesis). This study assesses the depressive realism hypothesis by comparing the accuracy of depressed and nondepressed people's…
Descriptors: College Students, Depression (Psychology), Expectation, Higher Education
