Learned helplessness
by Christopher Peterson, Steven F. Maier, Martin Elias Pete Seligman · first published 1995
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on “Ask HN: What books have been worth your time?” ↗…resources that helped me. Thus... I would say that if anything in the post feels like something that is bothering you or has bothered you in the past, go and read about Learned Optimism, the rough opposite of Learned Helplessness: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_optimism And especially Seligman’s self-help book on the subject: http://amzn.to/1zFQXcr The book claims that “optimism” can be measured, and that there are strategies…
on “Unlearning Helplessness” ↗A connection with Seligman's https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness experiment Two dogs in separate rooms with floors that can give them a mild shock. Arranged so they get exactly the same shock. One dog can turn off the shock by performing an action; the other has no…
on “Teaching Rats to Drive Tiny Cars” ↗…be optimistic and risk averse. Setting that aside, there are some interesting papers that explore this [0], and I'd strongly recommend looking at Martin Seligman's original research in the 70s about Learned Helplessness [1], which has a close connection with pessimism, or conversely, a lack of optimism. Interestingly, optimism is a skill that can be learned/conditioned much like pessimism, which points at their function…
on “Cognitive Ability and Miscalibrated Financial Expectations” ↗