Does Depression Make You More Realistic?

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Popular culture has occasionally touched on the idea that people with depression are more objective judges of the world around them, but research has shown that’s not necessarily true. Hosted by: Hank Green ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at https://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters: Greg, Alex Schuerch, Alex Hackman, Andrew Finley Brenan, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, الخليفي سلطان, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/hide-and-seek/201206/depressive-realism http://psycnet.apa.org/record/2004-18097-003 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01187168 http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.1033.2587&rep=rep1&type=pdf https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01183131 https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2FBF01183131.pdf https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01173473 https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2FBF01173473.pdf https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9830251 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272735812000670 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3565123/ https://www.apa.org/monitor/apr05/realism.aspx https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15702960 http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/citations;jsessionid=EA540A4C2671B90A5FB2BC93AB4DBBB4?doi=10.1.1.510.1590 https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/ee9e/a9e0b848508bbb2d760c331cbc1883ad6c8d.pdf


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