one, it is now apparent that this warning applies equally to the new version, RM. We can think of no major area of research in which the theory and the data purportedly sup- porting the theory are as unrelated as in studies of the LH

model of depression. Yet, studies that bear only a marginal relation to the theory continue to be published, and claims in those articles about how the data confirm the model continue to be accepted almost without question. When initially asked to comment on Chris Peterson's defense of the explanatory style concept, we were somewhat reluctant. Past attempts by our research group and by others to refine and advance attributional models of depression and related problems in living have had relatively little effect on the research or theorizing in the LH and depression area. Colleagues have variously attributed this perseverance of the field to the bandwagon phenomenon, or to the Zeitgeist.