Learned Helplessness Turned Into Learning Hopelessness

Sally Kohn: The dogs just accepted that the shocks were coming and there was nothing they could do about it. This was called learned helplessness. And remember this, because I'm going to come back to this in a minute in the podcast, we talk about how this relates to sex. Yes. But then the other thing that was interesting is after that had happened, after they started reacting to the bell, they kept going for longer and longer. Mm hmm. Now what's interesting is that they did like a follow up experiment to this, where they had a different setup. They had a cage that had like a little divider in between that was easily low enough for