190 - Learned Helplessness (rebroadcast)
You Are Not So Smart
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The Complexity of Learning Helplessness
Kim Bennett is an associate professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Missouri at Kansas City. When we experience negative events and explain them as internal, stable, and global, that's when we as humans experience learned helplessness. We have a style that we use to help us create meaning following a negative event. It also happens following positive events, but we tend to spend less cognitive energy thinking through positive things.
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