Learned Helplessness
topic on 2 shows · 2 statements across 2 episodes
2 statements about Learned Helplessness, every show
Eyal: Seligman and Maier reversed their theory on learned helplessness
“Those authors, Seligman and Meyer, declared that they had gotten the study a hundred percent backwards. That the study results were a 180 degrees the opposite of what they thought. That we don't learn helplessness, that's our default.”
Duckworth: Unpredictable trauma induces learned helplessness and depression
“The key is that if they experience these traumas in an unpredictable way, with, like, you know, you don't know when it's gonna end, you don't know the next thing's gonna happen, that's when you actually get, you know, the symptoms of depression and giving up.”