Does Depression Make You More Realistic?

Popular culture has occasionally touched on the idea that people with depression are more objective judges of the world around them, but research has shown that’s not necessarily true. Hosted by: Hank Green ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon:   / scishow   SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at https://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters: Greg, Alex Schuerch, Alex Hackman, Andrew Finley Brenan, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, الخليفي سلطان, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook:   / scishow   Twitter:   / scishow   Tumblr:   / scishow   Instagram:   / thescishow   ---------- Sources: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/bl... http://psycnet.apa.org/record/2004-18... https://link.springer.com/article/10.... http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/... https://link.springer.com/article/10.... https://link.springer.com/content/pdf... https://link.springer.com/article/10.... https://link.springer.com/content/pdf... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9... https://www.sciencedirect.com/science... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... https://www.apa.org/monitor/apr05/rea... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1... http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/... https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/ee9e...