Can anyone give me an example of pessimistic explanatory style? (social psychology)?

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Pessimistic Explanatory Style

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Can anyone give me an example of pessimistic explanatory style? (social psychology)?

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Psychologists define explanatory style as peoples' tendencies to frequently give specific explanations for causes of events. Pessimistic explanatory style is a combination of 3 explanatory style categories: internal (people who constanty blame themselves, even for things they have no control over), global (when people think there's a global cause responsible for many events in life - carma for example) and stable (when people think that the cause of an event is permanent and stable - I didn't succeed because I'm stupid). So, an example for pessimistic explanatory style would be a person who didn't pass an exam and thinks it's because she's incompetent, she allways was incompetent, allways will be and thinks her incompetence is the main cause of all the bad things in her life.

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Are you referring to sarcastic answers? I do
this. The value of sarcasm is very underrated.
Like anything in a social or cultural setting that
people do, there are people with poor sarcasm
and great sarcasm. People think if I am
sarcastic I am being belligerent, or negativistic.
But it's a type of self-salvation, because
people over the years have lost their
sense of humor. When you start taking
anything that happens in the news as a blow
against The Empire, or a stain on your own brand
of goodness, then you spend too much
time being unhappy or angry. I consider
sarcasm definitely to be a kind of humor.
Example: Dr. Dino
believes cave fish are blind because it
is the work of Satan, that the fish
were put here to confuse you and your
accountant, and the evil
masses believe that supernovas form
planets and people like Howard Stern.

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Pessimism - from the Latin pessimus (worst), denotes a belief that the experienced world is the worst possible. It describes a general belief that things are bad, and tend to become worse; or that looks to the eventual triumph of evil over good; it contrasts with optimism, the contrary belief in the goodness and betterment of things generally. A common conundrum illustrates optimism versus pessimism with the question - does one regard a given glass of water as: "Is the glass half empty or half full?" Conventional wisdom expects optimists to reply with half full and pessimists to respond with half empty.