Ruby and myron have ended their relationship, and ruby blames herself for the break-up because she views herself as unlikeable a
nd unattractive. she sees herself as lacking in the type of personality and intelligence to keep a boyfriend for a long-term relationship. ruby tells her friends that her whole life is ruined, and she should just leave the university and go home. ruby's thinking best illustrates
Pessimists have the opposite explanatory style for they blame themselves for things with bad luck that happens and thinks that the cause was something permanent. But, when something good happens, they tend to connect and depend it to luck and see the cause as a temporary case only.
