On learned helplessness

Integrative Physiological and Behavioral Science

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 4-8

  Overmier, J Bruce ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c Elliott Hall ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; DEPRESSION; HUMAN; LEARNED HELPLESSNESS; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDER; RESEARCH; RESEARCH ETHICS; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; DEPRESSION; ETHICS, RESEARCH; HELPLESSNESS, LEARNED; HUMANS; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC DISORDERS; RESEARCH; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 0036364358     PISSN: 1053881X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02688801     Document Type: Article

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