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In 1981, Golin, Sweeney, and Shaeffer found an association between attributional style and subsequent depression, using a cross-lag panel design. This finding is widely viewed as showing that attributional tendencies exert a unidirectional causal influence on the development of depressed affect. This article reports a failure to obtain a comparable result from a very similar study.
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Carver, C.S., Voie, L.L. Reexamining the causality of causal attributions in depression: A failure to replicate. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 24, 110–112 (1986). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03330518
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