Explore: Learned Helplessness

Learned helplessness is the behavior exhibited by a subject after enduring repeated aversive stimuli beyond their control. In humans, learned helplessness

his theories of well-being and positive psychology. His theory of learned helplessness is popular among scientific and clinical psychologists. A Review

Learned optimism is the idea in positive psychology that a talent for joy, like any other, can be cultivated. In contrast with learned helplessness, optimism

will become helpless and stop attempting escape. The animal or human may develop motivational deficits, as demonstrated in learned helplessness experiments

adults with hearing loss to ditch them altogether. The concept of learned helplessness emerged from animal research in which psychologists Martin Seligman

When escape responses fail, they develop helplessness. A common, theoretical example of learned helplessness is an elephant, trained by humans who condition

"Stockholm Syndrome" and related ideas such as "traumatic bonding", "learned helplessness", "battered women's syndrome", "internalized oppression", and "identification

event cannot be avoided or escaped may result in a condition called learned helplessness. There is evidence for human behavioral learning prenatally, in which

researched extensively by Lenore E. Walker, who used Martin Seligman's learned helplessness theory to explain why women stayed in relationships with abusive

and his argument was more generous in that it blames fatalism and learned helplessness rather than indolence. A 2017 Brookings Institution report noted