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Helpless by Design?

Scientific American, 2012
The article discusses the evolution of human childbirth, and research into the restricting factors for infants' body size and neurological development. Research is discussed which claims that the mother's metabolic rate prevents longer gestation, instead of the size of the pelvis. Researchers such as Holly M.
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Haemodialysis and helplessness

Nursing Standard, 1991
Patients receiving haemodialysis might experience more feelings of helplessness than their counterparts on continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD).
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Learned helplessness in groups

Behaviour Research and Therapy, 1983
Abstract Group learned helplessness is demonstrated in Experiment I. Groups of 2 tried to turn off noise by their joint action. In the solvable group (S), noise offset was contingent on their sequence of button pushing. In the yoked, unsolvable group (U), noise offset was independent of all sequences of button pushes they produced.
D K, Simkin, J P, Lederer, M E, Seligman
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Frustration and learned helplessness.

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 1975
This article reports the transfer of learned helplessness from one aversive motivator, shock to another, frustration. In experiment 1, animals were trained to approach food in a runway and concomitantly exposed to either escapable, inescapable, or no shock in a different situation.
R A, Rosellini, M E, Seligman
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Therapy for helpless monkeys

Behaviour Research and Therapy, 1983
Abstract During the course of pilot studies and two formal experiments examining the learned-helplessness phenomenon in rhesus monkeys, 5 subjects failed to escape in a shuttlebox following earlier experience with aversive stimulation in primate-restraining chairs.
D K, Rush, S, Mineka, S J, Suomi
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Shiftwork, helplessness and depression

Journal of Affective Disorders, 1993
Forty-three student nurses undertaking shiftwork for the first time participated in a study which tracked their perceptions of altered neurovegetative function, perceived criticism from others, sense of purpose and control and psychosomatic complaints.
D, Healy, D S, Minors, J M, Waterhouse
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Are We Physicians Helpless?

New England Journal of Medicine, 1984
IN my lifetime, medicine and the illnesses we physicians are asked to treat have changed greatly. Many of the past scourges have gone, yet we seem to be faced not with fewer problems but with more and more. I will comment about some of these problems and then mention a few simple things each of us can do that will do no harm and, I believe, may even ...
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Learned Helplessness at Work

International Journal of Health Services, 1988
The development of theory and research on learned helplessness is reviewed and criticized on some points, e.g., for its reliance on artificial laboratory experiments. Some empirical findings are presented, indicating a connection between certain work characteristics and learned helplessness.
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Helpless

Interactions, 2007
Tom Chi 0001, Kevin Cheng 0001
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