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Seligman
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Thought experiment
Learned Helplessness
Repeated exposure to a shock a dog cannot escape teaches it, wrongly, that nothing it does will change what happens, even later when escape is easy.
9 min
IdeologyPositive Psychology
Seligman's 1998 call to study what makes life worth living, not only what goes wrong with it, built into a research program on character, resilience, and gratitude that later had to reckon with its own weak replications.
11 min