The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
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Steven Maier, a professor from the University of Colorado, states that a model of depression could be caused by "impaired medial prefrontal cortical inhibitory control over stress-responsive limbic and brainstem structures."
Steven Maier is a University of Colorado Distinguished Professor and the Director of the Center for Neuroscience. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1968 and has been at the University of Colorado since 1973.
Steven F. Maier. University of Colorado Boulder.
The term was coined in 1967 by the American psychologists Martin Seligman and Steven Maier. The pair were conducting research on animal behavior that involved delivering electric shocks to dogs.
Steven F. Maier. University of Colorado at Boulder. Martin E. P. Seligman. University of Pennsylvania. Learned helplessness, the failure to escape shock induced by uncontrollable aversive events, was discovered half a century ago.
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May 2, 2024 · The first people to describe learned helplessness were the American psychologists Steven F. Maier and Martin E. P. Seligman. Martin Seligman conducted a series of classic experiments in the 1960s (Seligman & Maier, 1967).
Jun 30, 1975 · Another explanation holds that uncontrollable shock is a severe stressor and depletes a neurochemical necessary for the mediation of movement. We examine the logical structure of these explanations and present a variety of evidence which bears on them directly. STEVEN F. MAIER AND MARTIN E. P. SELIGMAN.
