Apparently the original experimenters who identified learned helplessness seem to now think they got it backwards: Learned helplessness is actually the default

Apparently the original experimenters who identified learned helplessness seem to now think they got it backwards: Learned helplessness is actually the default behavior of mammals, and we need to learn how to overcome the default state. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4920136/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4920136/