Lyn Y. Abramson

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...

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 ...

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...