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danybittel ◴[] No.45944566[source]
This sounds a lot like Learned helplessness: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness
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1. tetris11 ◴[] No.45944767[source]
> 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...

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2. mahogany ◴[] No.45953450[source]
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.