Performance Benefits of Depression: Sequential Decision Making in a Healthy Sample and a Clinically Depressed Sample

Journal of Abnormal Psychology

Volumn 120, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 962-968

  Von Helversen, Bettina ^a,b   Wilke, Andreas ^a,c,d   Johnson, Tim ^a,e   Schmid, Gabriele ^f   Klapp, Burghard ^g  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c CLARKSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d KONRAD LORENZ INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTION AND COGNITION RESEARCH   (Austria)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^g CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Decision making; Major depressive disorder; Sequential choice

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PATIENT HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE D; QUESTIONNAIRE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 82855166041     PISSN: 0021843X     EISSN: 19391846     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0023238     Document Type: Article

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