Cognitive Biases and Depression

Kevin B. Dohr, A. John Rush, Ira H. Bernstein

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Abstract

Compared symptomatically depressed, clinically remitted, and normal controls using cognitive measures designed to be traitlike and statelike in cross-sectional and longitudinal designs, respectively. Remitted depressives and normal subjects did not differ in their attributional biases, endorsement of dysfunctional attitudes, or interpretation of schema-relevant ambiguous events, but both groups differed from symptomatic depressives. Depressive episodes thus affect cognition, but cognitions measured by self-reports are more statelike than traitlike.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)263-267
Number of pages5
JournalJournal of Abnormal Psychology
Volume98
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 1989

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Psychiatry and Mental health
  • Biological Psychiatry

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