Lyn Y. Abramson

Learned helplessness in humans: Critique and reformulation.

The learned helplessness hypothesis is criticized and reformulated. The old hypothesis, when applied to learned helplessness in humans, has two major problems: (a) It does not d...

Depressive realism: Four theoretical perspectives.

Judgment of contingency in depressed and nondepressed students: Sadder but wiser?

How are humans' subjective judgments of contingencies related to objective contingencies? Work in social psychology and human contingency learning predicts that the greater the ...

A paradox in depression: Uncontrollability and self-blame.

Technological innovations seem to be among the great promises for achieving the urgent modernisation of economies towards carbon-neutrality. Ranging from fusion energy, bio-base...