People who have pessimistic, attribucional styles are going to assume an independence between what they do and what happens to them. This kind of thinking can also influence the way families and communities approach their health because it can become a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy. Jennifer Wellborn studies how people cope with stressors in the workplace.
Stuck in a bad situation, even when the prison doors are left wide open, we sometimes refuse to attempt escape. Why is that?
In this episode learn all about the strange phenomenon of learned helplessness and how it keeps people in bad jobs, poor health, terrible relationships, and awful circumstances despite how easy it might be to escape any one of those scenarios with just one more effort. In the episode, you'll learn how to defeat this psychological trap with advice from psychologists Jennifer Welbourne, who studies attributional styles in the workplace, and Kym Bennett who studies the effects of pessimism on health.
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