Learned helplessness


Incidence

The most grave example of learned helplessness in modern times was the reaction of European Jews to the Nazis. Witnesses who returned to villages and cities to give warning, were discredited, hampered and negated by lack of authority; and the ways in which Germans treated Jews established conditions most conducive for the production of learned helplessness, the most extreme state of which was death in the concentration camps.

Aggravates


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