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Lyn Y. Abramson
Researcher at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Publications - 274
Citations - 42368
Lyn Y. Abramson is an academic researcher from University of Wisconsin-Madison. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cognitive vulnerability & Bipolar disorder. The author has an hindex of 83, co-authored 268 publications receiving 39348 citations. Previous affiliations of Lyn Y. Abramson include University of Illinois at Chicago & State University of New York System.
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Learned Helplessness in Humans: Critique and Reformulation
TL;DR: According to the reformulation, once people perceive noncontingency, they attribute their helplessness to a cause and this cause can be stable or unstable, global or specific, and internal or external.
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Hopelessness depression: A theory-based subtype of depression.
TL;DR: The hopelessness theory is silent about the time lag between formation of hopelessness and onset of the symptoms of depression as mentioned in this paper, however, the hopelessness cause, as opposed to a hopelessness subtype, of depression has not been examined.
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Development of Depression From Preadolescence to Young Adulthood: Emerging Gender Differences in a 10-Year Longitudinal Study
Benjamin L. Hankin,Lyn Y. Abramson,Terrie E. Moffitt,Phil A. Silva,Rob McGee,Kathryn E. Angell +5 more
TL;DR: Results suggest that middle-to-late adolescence (ages 15-18) may be a critical time for studying vulnerability to depression because of the higher depression rates and the greater risk for depression onset and dramatic increase in gender differences in depression during this period.
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The attributional Style Questionnaire
Christopher Peterson,Amy Semmel,Carl L. von Baeyer,Lyn Y. Abramson,Gerald I. Metalsky,Martin E. P. Seligman +5 more
TL;DR: The Attributional Style Questionnaire as mentioned in this paper measures individual differences in the use of these attributional dimensions, and is used to measure individual differences between depressive symptoms and the learned helplessness model.
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Judgment of contingency in depressed and nondepressed students: sadder but wiser?
Lauren B. Alloy,Lyn Y. Abramson +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the learned helplessness theory of depression was used to predict the degree of contingency between responses and outcomes relative to the objective degree of contingencies, and the predicted subjective judgments of contingency were surprisingly accurate in all four experiments.