Learned helplessness. I’d heard the term before, but conflated it with weaponized incompetence, a phenomenon where someone (usually the male partner in a hetero relationship) exerts little or no ...

“What is the difference between true acceptance and learned helplessness?” a reader asks, In January 2022 in my post Learned Helplessness, Brain Injury, and the Pandemic, I wrote that Maier and ...

Some individuals that experience a traumatic event are vulnerable, and others resilient. We have had a long-standing interest in psychological/behavioral factors that ...

The pandemic and current political environment might have you in the doldrums. Ups and downs are normal in life, but when you’ve been stuck inside on Zoom calls for months, it’s easy to forget the ups ...

Clearly, we should be striving for the latter. But if you want to create a workplace culture of optimism, you have to empower employees to develop learned industriousness over learned helplessness.

Imagine my surprise when, nearly eight months ago, commenting on the state of the country as it approached the 2024 presidential election, New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg noted that “Biden ...

To paraphrase a familiar saying, “It takes a community to educate a child.” And what does it take to become a truly “educative community”? An educative community is one that depends on the real work ...