The Fear of Not Fitting In

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Penn State's psychology professor Shariz Nixon spoke to a classroom of students recorded for a video produced by The Ophelia Project. "The biggest fear of an adolescent, Jesse, not fitting in, is not fitting in," he said. 'Now to understand how this happens and how this looks and what this feels like, I'm going to have to do an activity'

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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