Talk:Depressive realism

message: This article doesn't have any in text citations.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.105.128.59 (talk) 19:09, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citations? 

message: Is there some way to note that where:
...Pacini, Muir and Epstein (1998) have shown that the depressive realism effect may be because depressed people overcompensate for a tendency toward maladaptive intuitive processing by exercising excessive rational control in trivial situations, and note that the difference with non-depressed people disappears in more consequential circumstances
the very distinction between consequential and inconsequential circumstances is really based on a NON depressive-realist perspective. In other words, they tacitly assume depressive realism is incorrect, then use an implication of this assumption to argue for the assumption itself. This is circular and hence an invalid argument.
Or would that be adding to the debate beyond the remit of the article?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.135.180.255 (talk) 21:08, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Don't know the procedure but... 

message: This article offers little explanation of the subject and seems to mostly present criticisms and arguments against the theory.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 107.8.7.30 (talk) 13:32, 27 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Neutral point of view? 

message: "a negative bias in the former and positive bias in the later" < looks like a typo to me.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.114.15.223 (talk) 04:08, 24 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  typo? 

message: I'll leave this review to someone more knowledgeable in this area, but it's surprising that there's no mention in this article of who coined this term, what researchers pioneered research on the subject or took major stands on it, etc. This seems like a notable absence. Thanks for your work to improve this one, and good luck with the GA nom, -- Khazar2 (talk) 11:48, 23 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  History of the theory 

message: I just saw this article while browsing the good article nominations. My immediate suggestion is to mine the  source guideline on reliable sources in medicine for tips on identifying reliable secondary sources on this topic. The most nearly relevant source lists I keep in user space are about  genetics and related topics, for a little information about depression, and about  human intelligence, for some broader reference books on psychology and cognition. Thus far, the article pertains mostly to development of the theory, and cites primary research articles, but it will be good for getting this article to good article status to cite more reliable secondary sources, as those will evaluate the development of the theory. One more suggestion is to put the date (year) of the first published paper on the article topic in the same sentence in the lede where the paper's authors are mentioned. I think readers of Wikipedia will want to know how recently this theory was developed. This is an interesting topic, and now that I am commenting here this article will be on my watchlist as you continue working on it. Keep up the good work. -- WeijiBaikeBianji (talk, how I edit) 15:38, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Good article nomination suggestions 

message: The bit about judging the performance of others seems fine, but the part that says depressive people are less optimistic in public seems completely irrelevant to the topic. We're interested in accuracy here, not optimism.
The next part says that depressive people rated themselves more negatively when more time had passed, but that doesn't actually contradict the claim that the depressive people were more accurate in their assessments.
Is it safe for me to delete those sections? Are those sections just really badly worded and only *look* irrelevant? What's up here?
167.219.0.140 (talk) 13:10, 4 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Most of the first paragraph of "Evidence against" section is irrelevant? 

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