Physiological correlates of learned helplessness in man.

Failure to escape traumatic shock.

Martin E. P. Seligman, Steven F. Maier · Journal of Experimental Psychology · 1967 · 1.9K citations

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Effects of inescapable shock upon subsequent escape and avoidance responding.

J. Bruce Overmier, Martin E. P. Seligman · Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology · 1967 · 1.2K citations

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Somatic response patterning and stress : some revisions of activation theory

John I. Lacey · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 1967 · 1.1K citations

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Generality of learned helplessness in man.

Donald Hiroto, Martin E. P. Seligman · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 1975 · 887 citations

Public Health, Behavioral Sciences, Psychology +12

Locus of control and learned helplessness.

Donald Hiroto · Journal of Experimental Psychology · 1974 · 627 citations

Social Sciences, Behavioral Sciences, Psychology +10