Life-changing organisations are left bloodied and bowed - and all to save sums that are dwarfed by bailouts to other sectors In the 1960s, two American psychologists coined the phrase "learned helplessness". They had found that if you repeatedly gave an animal an electric shock from which there was no means of escape, the unfortunate creature would simply lie there and whimper - even if you later changed the parameters, and gave it a shock it could evade. The effect was also discernible in human...
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The Guardian - 22 Mar 2023 16:22
Life-changing organisations are left bloodied and bowed - and all to save sums that are dwarfed by bailouts to other sectors In the 1960s, two American psychologists coined the phrase "learned helplessness". They had found that if you repeatedly gave an animal an electric shock from which there was no means of escape, the unfortunate creature would simply lie there and whimper - even if you later changed the parameters, and gave it a shock it could evade. The effect was also discernible in human...
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