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Re:Unselfish People Are More Likely to Wind Up with Depression by dan00 on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @11:15AM (#15401055)
The study is about people being unselfish, not about people seeing themself as unselfish.
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Re:Unselfish People Are More Likely to Wind Up with Depression by thriftwy on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @11:47AM (#15401330)
> More precisely, prosocial attitudes predict depression, which is in contrast to individualist attitudes. Individualist here basically just means selfish, or relatively selfish

Do you understand what's being conveyed here? Because I have no idea. But it doesn't sound overly legitimate to me. Of course, I didn't read the original research.

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