John D. Teasdale

Research topics

• Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · 1 paper
• Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes · 1 paper
• Mental Health Research Topics · 1 paper

Frequent co-authors

• Lyn Y. Abramson · 1 paper
• Martin E. P. Seligman · 1 paper

Papers

1. Learned helplessness in humans: Critique and reformulation.Journal of Abnormal Psychology · 1978 · 6,974 citations

   The learned helplessness hypothesis is criticized and reformulated. The old hypothesis, when applied to learned helplessness in humans, has two major problems: (a) It does not distinguish between cases in which outcomes are uncontrollable for all people and cases in…