Depressive realism
Depressive realism is the hypothesis developed by Lauren Allow and Lyn Yvonne Adramson that depressed individuals in some cases make more realistic inferences than non-depressed individuals. Although depressed individuals are thought to always have a negative cognitive distortion, depressive realism argues not only that this negativity may reflect a more accurate appraisal of the world but also that non-depressed individuals’ appraisals are positively biased.
The fact that the right frontal lobe has a depressive stance, where as the left shows undue cheerfulness is supportive of this idea. Especially considering that the right hemisphere deals with real things that have meaning to us in the lived world, while The left hemisphere deals with non-realistic and artificial images. Also, the right hemisphere is more realistic but also more pessimistic and favors depression. Perhaps depressive realism is right hemisphere depression, since the right hemisphere brings anxious, disturbed depression while the left brings indifferent or apathetic depression.
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