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This sounds a lot like Learned helplessness: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness


> Most of the Group 3 dogs—which had previously learned that nothing they did had any effect on shocks—simply lay down passively and whined when they were shocked

What a cruel time for experimenting on animals the 1960s were...


Animal cruelty is alive and well in the factory farming industry, at a yearly scale orders of magnitude higher than the sum of all research experimentation in science during the 1960s.




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