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Peer reviewedTuffin, Keith; And Others – Social Behavior and Personality, 1985
Assessed whether experimentally induced learned helplessness on a cognitive training task generalized to a situationally dissimilar social interaction test task. No significant differences were observed between groups on the subsequent test task, showing that helplessness failed to generalize. (Author/ABB)
Descriptors: College Students, Experimental Psychology, Generalizability Theory, Generalization
Peer reviewedFeinberg, Richard A.; And Others – Social Behavior and Personality, 1982
Two experiments investigated the relationship between the magnitude of motivation for control over the environment and tendency to derogate victims. Manipulated situational controllability and uncontrollability within a learned helplessness procedure and assessed derogation of a victimized stranger. Results indicated that motivation and need for…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Beliefs, College Students, Expectation
Peer reviewedHarris, Roma M.; Highlen, Pamela S. – Social Behavior and Personality, 1982
Examined the effects of escapable versus inescapable aversive stimuli (noise) on performance in relation to the conceptual complexity level of college students (N=60). Overall, results suggested that conceptual complexity level mediated the experience of learned helplessness. Conceptually complex students were less negatively affected than…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Concept Formation
