Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lesley Broff is a licensed social worker who graduated from The University of Pittsburgh with her Masters degree in Social Work.

This isn't something we see with most kids when they sit in front of a computer. On the contrary, they just help themselves. Sure, we might see it in a math class, but learned helplessness is a ...

I learned three big lessons over a three-week period: 1. Leaders, including CEOs and business owners, are like the rest of us. They too can freeze and feel helpless and anxious. 2. Knowledge, like ...

Somewhere along the way, working hard became a thing of the past for some. Effort? Cringe. Optimism? Please. In some workplaces, skepticism trumps enthusiasm, sarcasm wins more respect than passion, ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. We all fall into a slump every now and then. But, what if you can’t kick yourself out of that slump? When you fall into a similar emotion ...

In recent years, college faculty, staff and administrators have noticed a trend of more students who seem to need consistent guidance, support and feedback in their daily lives. Professors report that ...

Not many parents set out to raise a 30-year-old Nintendo player who sprawls on the couch all day sucking up pizza and Diet Pepsi.Yet many parents actually subvert their positive intention of raising ...

In psychology, learned helplessness is a state that occurs after a person has repeatedly experienced a stressful situation. They believe they cannot control or change the situation, so they do not try ...

Learned helplessness. I’d heard the term before, but conflated it with weaponized incompetence, a phenomenon where someone (usually the male partner in a hetero relationship) exerts little or no ...

Learned helplessness occurs when an individual continuously faces a negative, uncontrollable situation and stops trying to change their circumstances, even when they have the ability to do so. For ...

In his recent post "Deconstructing Consumer Confidence" my fellow blogger Dan Ariely put up a pretty fascinating post about the relationship between learned helplessness and the recent 40-year low in ...