The Effects of Attribution on Physical Health

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The things that cause people the most stress at work are often the things that don't get addressed and then just become the way that things are. The good news is both Kim Bennett and Jennifer Wellborn's work and other psychologists, including Martin Seligman, say all of this is changeable. And so I think that there is hope for people who may be prone to explaining events in this manner.

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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