Day: August 28, 2017

    There are a number of common signs of depression that often go unnoticed. On many occasions we fail to recognise the warning signs in our own lives, and it takes a friend or family member to reach out to point them out. Weight loss, loss of appetite, loss of sex drive, wavering concentration and difficulty enjoying things: these are all fairly well-known symptoms that can be linked to depression. But there’s one symptom that hasn’t had quite as much attention, and it’s called hindsight bias. Depressed people are more likely to project their cloudy outlook onto the past, rather than glorify the good old days, like we're more likely to do. New research from Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf and University of Portsmouth tested more than 100 students with mild to severe de...