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The 19 pages that link to Learned helplessness, each with the reason it gives.

• CoercionRelated: Prolonged coercive conditions can foster expectations that resistance will not work.

• Coercive controlRelated: Prolonged control can make resistance seem ineffective, though responses vary.

• Dog trainingRelated: Harsh or inescapable training situations can undermine a dog’s initiative and welfare.

• FatalismRelated: It is a psychological consequence of perceived powerlessness, not proof that outcomes are fixed.

• Attribution theoryRelated: Attributional explanations of failure help account for why helplessness persists or lifts.

• GaslightingRelated: Prolonged manipulation can leave someone feeling unable to challenge what is happening.

• Stockholm syndromeRelated: It provides a contrasting account of behavior under prolonged captivity and powerlessness.

• Psychological abuseRelated: Persistent intimidation and blocked choices can foster a sense that resistance will not help.

• Martin SeligmanRelated: Seligman’s early experiments helped establish this phenomenon and its psychological interpretation.

• Dependent personality disorderRelated: Passivity can resemble helplessness, though the disorder is defined by interpersonal dependency, not this mechanism.

• ApoliticismRelated: Repeated political disappointment can foster withdrawal through a perceived lack of control.