Abstract
The hypothesis of benign reactions to the self following a success experience, supported by data from Mischel, Ebbesen, and Zeiss (1973), was tested with 71 depressed and 38 nondepressed students, using a social rather than an intellectual task. Theoretical propositions from Aaron Beck's approach to depression were used as a basis for the prediction that depressed subjects would selectively attend to negative information about themselves. The results were complex but clearly differed from the Mischel, et al.'s results and implicated the nature of the task as an important situational determinant which limited the generalizability of previous findings. Hypotheses about cognitive functioning in depression were partially supported, and gender appears to be a factor requiring further study with respect to depression.
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