Correction to: Nature Human Behaviour https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-018-0504-3, published online 14 January 2019.

In the version of this article initially published, reference #8 (originally Goodyer, I. M., Herbert, J., Tamplin, A. & Altham, P. M. E. First-episode major depression in adolescents. Br. J. Psychiatry 176, 142–149 (2000).) should have been Goodyer, I. M., Herbert, J., Tamplin, A. & Altham, P. M. E. Recent life events, cortisol, dehydroepiandrosterone and the onset of major depression in high-risk adolescents. Br. J. Psychiatry 177, 499–504 (2000). The error has been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions of the article.