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Psychological behavior
Learned helplessness is the behavior exhibited by a subject after enduring repeated aversive stimuli beyond their control. In humans, learned helplessness
Learned_helplessness
Concept in positive psychology
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
Learned_optimism
American psychologist and writer (born 1942)
his theories of well-being and positive psychology. His theory of learned helplessness is popular among scientific and clinical psychologists. A Review
Martin_Seligman
Behavioral theory by Robert Eisenberger
will become helpless and stop attempting escape. The animal or human may develop motivational deficits, as demonstrated in learned helplessness experiments
Learned_industriousness
Process of acquiring new knowledge
event cannot be avoided or escaped may result in a condition called learned helplessness. There is evidence for human behavioral learning prenatally, in which
Learning
Contested psychological condition
"Stockholm Syndrome" and related ideas such as "traumatic bonding", "learned helplessness", "battered women's syndrome", "internalized oppression", and "identification
Stockholm_syndrome
Process by which individuals explain causes of behavior and events
or controllable, using insights from interviews. The concept of learned helplessness emerged from animal research in which psychologists Martin Seligman
Attribution_(psychology)
Rapid series of movements by an animal
When escape responses fail, they develop helplessness. A common, theoretical example of learned helplessness is an elephant, trained by humans who condition
Escape_response
Harmful repetitive gambling
Mikulincer, Mario (1994). "A Coping Perspective of Human Learned Helplessness". Human Learned Helplessness. pp. 239–273. doi:10.1007/978-1-4899-0936-7_8.
Problem_gambling
Condition resulting from emotional, physical, or sexual abuse
researched extensively by Lenore E. Walker, who used Martin Seligman's learned helplessness theory to explain why women stayed in relationships with abusive
Battered_woman_syndrome
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Distress caused by being away from home
shape interventions are those concerned with Learned Helplessness and Control Beliefs. Learned helplessness predicts that persons who develop a belief that
Homesickness
Trade of humans for exploitation
employ tactics that can lead to the psychological consequence of learned helplessness for the victims, where they sense that they no longer have any autonomy
Human_trafficking
Mindset that one has been hurt by the actions of others
defensive, even when others try to help avoid taking risks exhibit learned helplessness be self-abasing feel the importance of being seen as a victim by
Victim_mentality
Class of opioid peptides
depression. Newton et al. studied the effects of CREB and dynorphin on learned helplessness (an animal model for depression) in mice. Overexpression of dominant
Dynorphin
Common emotional response to opposition
House Inc. p. 80. ISBN 978-0-679-77917-9. Boyd, Thomas L. (1982). "Learned helplessness in humans: A frustration-produced response pattern". Journal of Personality
Frustration
1995 manifesto by Ted Kaczynski
Morris's concept of "the Stimulus Struggle" with Seligman's concept of learned helplessness. Fleming's study relies on archival material from the Labadie Collection
Industrial Society and Its Future
Industrial_Society_and_Its_Future
Composite statistic of life expectancy, education, and income indices
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State of indifference, or the suppression of emotions
, the challenge is irrelevant to them, or conversely, they have learned helplessness). Apathy is usually felt only in the short term, but sometimes it
Apathy
2016 memoir by JD Vance
and his argument was more generous in that it blames fatalism and learned helplessness rather than indolence. A 2017 Brookings Institution report noted
Hillbilly_Elegy
Measure of inequality of a statistical distribution
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Gini_coefficient
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hypothesis-driven, scientific approach. Cognitive bias tests and learned helplessness models have shown feelings of optimism and pessimism in a wide range
Emotion_in_animals
Practice of teaching behaviors to dogs
Learned helplessness occurs when a dog ceases to respond in a situation where it has no option to avoid a negative event. For learned helplessness to
Dog_training
Treating a person primarily as a sexual object
from which they create a feeling of helplessness in relation to correcting their physical appearance and helplessness in being able to control the way in
Sexual_objectification
Branch of scientific study
the dogs study the effects of helplessness have been tested in species from fish to cats. Most recently learned helplessness has been studied in rhesus macaques
Animal_psychopathology
Psychological concept
S2CID 15355866. Nolen, Jeannette. "Learned Helplessness". britannica.com. Retrieved 15 May 2018. Seligman, Martin E.P. (1992). Helplessness, On Depression, Development
Perceived_control
Short type of whip without a lash, used in horseback riding
serious implications for animal welfare, and the development of learned helplessness. Dressage whip is a true whip, longer than a crop, (up to 110 cm
Crop_(implement)
Movement disorders that appear in early childhood
problems of cognition, deafness, and learned helplessness. Children with cerebral palsy are at risk of learned helplessness and becoming passive communicators
Cerebral_palsy
Intentionally causing harm by following a superior's orders
behavior Fall guy False consciousness Gaming the system Italian strike Learned helplessness Peer pressure Perverse incentive Shill The Good Soldier Švejk Throffer
Malicious_compliance
Research tools for understanding depressive symptoms in non-human animals
pharmacological, or environmental manipulations. Stress models including learned helplessness, chronic mild stress, and social defeat stress simulate the impact
Animal_models_of_depression
Catatonic medical condition
variety of ways, including a form of post-traumatic stress disorder, learned helplessness, ‘lethal mothering’, loss of the internal parent, apathy or the ‘giving-up’
Resignation_syndrome
Self-awareness about thinking, higher-order thinking skills
strategies such as avoidance and suppression. These can foster pervasive learned helplessness and impair the formation of executive functions, negatively affecting
Metacognition
Charitable humanitarian organization
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Oxfam
Lack of economic resources
6% in 2006 while spending less each year on maternal health because it learned what worked and what did not. Knowledge on the cost effectiveness of healthcare
Poverty
Concept in cognitive psychology
A cognitive vulnerability in cognitive psychology is an erroneous belief, cognitive bias, or pattern of thought that predisposes an individual to psychological
Cognitive_vulnerability
Inability to initiate and persist in goal-directed activities
Apathy Autism spectrum disorder Hikikomori Incontinence (philosophy) Learned helplessness Lethargy Major depressive disorder Schizoid personality disorder
Avolition
Concepts in social and developmental psychology
perceived possibility of mastery, often regarded as an outlook of "learned helplessness". However, the incremental theory of intelligence proposes that intelligence
Implicit theories of intelligence
Implicit_theories_of_intelligence
Set of rules
more resilient and motivated in the face of adversity. Studies on learned helplessness and control have demonstrated that perceived control is closely linked
Code_of_conduct
Measure of a country's quality of life
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Physical Quality of Life Index
Physical_Quality_of_Life_Index
Philosopher and writer (born 1973)
of people every day. The story explores how status quo bias and learned helplessness can prevent people from taking action to defeat aging even when the
Nick_Bostrom
American murderers and brothers
allegations were unproven. He argued Erik did not show symptoms of "learned helplessness," as he had purchased guns and practiced with them at the shooting
Lyle_and_Erik_Menendez
Aspect of learning procedure
Conditioned avoidance response test (CAR test) Conversion therapy Learned helplessness Little Albert experiment Nocebo Measures of conditioned emotional
Classical_conditioning
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List_of_administrative_units_of_Pakistan_by_Human_Development_Index
Minimum income deemed adequate to live in a specific country or place
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Poverty_threshold
Big Five personality trait inventory
Modesty Self-Discipline/ Willpower Vulnerability to Stress/ Fear/Learned helplessness Positive Emotion/ Cheerfulness/Vivacity Values/ Psychological liberalism/Tolerance
Revised NEO Personality Inventory
Revised_NEO_Personality_Inventory
Range of poverty indicators
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Multidimensional Poverty Index
Multidimensional_Poverty_Index
Former indication of the poverty of community in a country
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Human_Poverty_Index
Concept in psychology
(June 1985). "The measurement of helplessness in rheumatoid arthritis. The development of the arthritis helplessness index". The Journal of Rheumatology
Locus_of_control
Measure of poverty and social exclusion
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Relative_deprivation
Psychological dilemma
thinking was not necessarily an inborn mental disorder but a pattern of learned helplessness in response to cognitive double-binds externally imposed. The veterans
Double_bind
Type of relationship
codepedency.[better source needed] Codependency can be seen as a form of learned helplessness and pathological altruism. With no consensus as to how codependency
Codependency
given domain is typically generalized, developing into learned helplessness. Learned helplessness is defined as a sense of having no control over outcomes
Behavioral theories of depression
Behavioral_theories_of_depression
American psychologist (born 1946)
The Role of Expectations and Attributions in the Alleviation of Learned Helplessness in a Problem-Solving Situation. Yale.edu (PhD thesis). Yale University
Carol_Dweck
Focused attention on one's mental distress
Mikulincer M (1996). "Mental rumination and learned helplessness: Cognitive shifts during helplessness training and their behavioral consequences.".
Rumination_(psychology)
Act of engaging in prostitution for an extreme need
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Survival_sex
Chemical compound
down-regulate 5HT-2 receptors, based on studies in which T3 reversed learned helplessness in rats and physiological studies of the rat brain. Thyroid hormones
Triiodothyronine
Economic indicator measuring economic and social cost
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Misery_index_(economics)
with reduced academic self-esteem and performance, and heightened learned helplessness. Algorithm errors and hallucinations are common flaws in AI agents
Artificial intelligence in education
Artificial_intelligence_in_education
Measure of poverty of small areas
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Deprivation_index
German neuroscientist
R. Wolf, M. Heisenberg: Flies cope with uncontrollable stress by learned helplessness. Curr Biol 23, 799-803 (2013) N.S. Chouhan, R. Wolf, C. Helfrich-Förster
Martin_Heisenberg
Sociological term for "normlessness"
apathy and detachment. Acedia Atavism Authoritarianism Groupthink Learned helplessness Mass society Misanthropy Nihilism Political apathy Psychological
Anomie
Act of sexual abuse
child victims. These can include, but are not limited to: denial, learned helplessness, genophobia (fear of sex), anger, self-blame, anxiety, shame, nightmares
Sexual_assault
Emotion of uninterest in surroundings
can be a symptom of clinical depression. Boredom can be a form of learned helplessness, a phenomenon closely related to depression. Some philosophies of
Boredom
Indian benchmark
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Below_Poverty_Line
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List of countries by Human Development Index by region
List_of_countries_by_Human_Development_Index_by_region
American sculptor and performance artist
PRUDENCE/PRIDE, JUSTICE/AVARICE, TEMPERANCE/GLUTTONY, and FORTITUDE/ANGER. Learned Helplessness in Rats (Rock and Roll Drummer) (1988) – Plexiglass maze, closed
Bruce_Nauman
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List of countries by percentage of population living in poverty
List_of_countries_by_percentage_of_population_living_in_poverty
Type of torture
monopolising of perception, impression of almightiness, creating a state of learned helplessness, psychological regression and depersonalization. Other techniques
Psychological_torture
Poverty phenomena that most frequently affect women
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Feminization_of_poverty
Slavery as a means to repay debt
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Debt_bondage
Macro theory of human motivation and personality
various aspects related to how well they can perform their job. Learned helplessness may even come into play with the motivation individuals may be. Deci
Self-determination_theory
Psychological attribute
studies are more likely to have controlled for event severity. The "learned helplessness" model formed the theoretical basis of the original Abramson, Seligman
Explanatory_style
2026 memoir by Lena Dunham
assuming the pose of the very young girl" and repeatedly exhibits "the learned helplessness of a pseudo childhood". Gilbert wrote that the book's later chapters
Famesick
Mood-stabilizing psychiatric medication
receptor/NO signaling in the action of lithium in this animal model of learned helplessness. Lithium possesses neuroprotective properties by preventing apoptosis
Lithium_(medication)
Psychology concept
of low self-efficacy is that it can lead to a state of learned helplessness. Learned helplessness was studied by Martin Seligman in an experiment in which
Self-efficacy
Acceptance of defeat without a struggle
"reckless confrontations" with the capitalist world. Acquiescence Learned helplessness "defeatism". Dictionary.com. Retrieved 13 March 2014. Kershaw, Ian
Defeatism
People with special problems or lacking money
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Disadvantaged
Autonomy and self-determination in people and communities
of Empowerment" Citizen Science Decentralization Delegation Learned helplessness Learned optimism Popular education Self-help Capacity building Positive
Empowerment
Poverty caused by non-essential spending
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Secondary_poverty
Cognitive capacity of horses
Andrew N. McLean, the misuse of negative reinforcement can lead to learned helplessness or neurosis. It can be difficult for horses to make the connection
Equine_intelligence
Concept in political economics
principles of self-determination might be forfeited due to "ignorance, learned helplessness, inattention, inconvenience, habituation, or drift" and states that
Surveillance_capitalism
Economic and social condition
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Asset_poverty
Psychological technique related to the placebo effect
disposition Inner critic – Concept in psychology Learned helplessness – Psychological behavior Learned optimism – Concept in positive psychology Locus
Autosuggestion
When a person's values do not correlate with their actions
Milfont, Taciano L.; Weeks, Andrew; Arnocky, Steven (February 2018). "Learned helplessness moderates the relationship between environmental concern and behavior"
Value-action_gap
Chronic fear of environmental doom
Eco-anxiety can be fueled in part by climate change helplessness, a form of learned helplessness applied to climate change fears. Because climate change
Eco-anxiety
Condition characterized by severe deprivation of basic human needs
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Extreme_poverty
Protein-coding gene in the species Homo sapiens, named for ketazocine
PMC 2795205. PMID 20052275. Tafet GE, Ortiz Alonso T (2025). "Learned helplessness and learned controllability: from neurobiology to cognitive, emotional
Κ-opioid_receptor
Study of mental functions and behaviors
colleagues discovered that they could condition in dogs a state of "learned helplessness", which was not predicted by the behaviorist approach to psychology
Psychology
American clinical psychologist
University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is known for her work on the learned helplessness and hopelessness in depression, depressive realism, gender differences
Lyn_Yvonne_Abramson
Factors that affect impoverished populations' health and health inequality
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Social determinants of health in poverty
Social_determinants_of_health_in_poverty
Interrogation practice used by the United States military and CIA
bombarded by extremely loud music in a small wooden box to induce learned helplessness at a CIA black site in Thailand by two psychologists associated with
Music torture in the war on terror
Music_torture_in_the_war_on_terror
Improper usage or mistreatment
interpersonal or occupational situations. It can manifest itself as learned helplessness, procrastination, stubbornness, resentment, sullenness, or deliberate
Abuse
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Governance_failure
Behavioral-purposed device to inflict aversive stimulus
motivations, potentially increasing the risk of fear-based aggression or learned helplessness. While proponents argue that electronic collars can be effective
Shock_collar
Matching opinions and behaviors to group norms
2022-10-14. Badhwar, Neera K. (September 2009). "The Milgram Experiments, Learned Helplessness, and Character Traits". The Journal of Ethics. 13 (2–3): 257–289
Conformity
Cognitive strategy
procrastination, self-fulfilling prophecies of negative expectations, learned helplessness, self-handicapping, success avoidance, failures in self-regulation
Self-handicapping
Means-oriented social benefit
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Welfare_spending
American experimental psychologist, author, and academic
conditioned fear, cognitive aspects in Pavlovian conditioning, and learned helplessness. In the compilation Animal Models of Human Pathology: A Bibliography
J._Bruce_Overmier
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v. t.
Learned.
a.
Not learned; untaught; uneducated; ignorant; illiterate.
a.
Fitted with lead; set in lead; as, leaded windows.
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One who learns; a scholar.
imp. & p. p.
of Learn
a.
Hard-hearted; cruel; pitiless; unfeeling.
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Hard-hearted; sordid; gross.
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Having (such) a leaf or (so many) leaves; -- used in composition; as, broad-leafed; four-leafed.
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Hard-hearted.
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Too learned.
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Having (such or so many) ears; -- used in composition; as, long-eared-eared; sharp-eared; full-eared; ten-eared.
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Hard-hearted; unfeeling; cruel; as, an iron-hearted master.
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Not exhibiting learning; as, unlearned verses.
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Not earned; not gained by labor or service.
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Imperfectly learned.
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Bearing, or having, a leaf or leaves; having folds; -- used in combination; as, a four-leaved clover; a two-leaved gate; long-leaved.
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Of or pertaining to learning; possessing, or characterized by, learning, esp. scholastic learning; erudite; well-informed; as, a learned scholar, writer, or lawyer; a learned book; a learned theory.
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Cowardly; timid; chicken-hearted.
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Timid; easily frightened; chicken-hearted.