Abstract
The information-seeking tendencies of depressed and nondepressed college students were assessed in an experiment in which subjects were induced either to succeed or fail a supposedly well-respected test of social sensitivity, and then led to expect that the available information would show that most other subjects performed either well or poorly on the test. Consistent with previous research, nondepressed subjects exhibited biased search tendencies after failure but not after success; that is, nondepressed failure subjects sought more information when they expected it to provide high consensus for their failure than when they expected it to provide low consensus. Depressed subjects exhibited no such bias after failure, but did exhibit biased search after success, seeking more information when they expected it to provide low consensus for their success than when they expected it to provide high consensus. The implications of these findings for understanding the differential attributional tendencies of depressed and nondepressed persons were discussed.
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