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Download full textNoel, Nora E.; Lisman, Stephen A. – 1977
Widely held cultural beliefs assert that alcohol can offer both an ameliorative and preventive solution to the problem of depression. This study attempted to assess the effects of learned helplessness--a possible laboratory analog to reactive depression--on alcohol consumption. Thirty-eight female undergraduates were randomly assigned (within…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Alcoholic Beverages, Anxiety, College Students
Peer reviewedAnd Others; Wortman, Camille B. – Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 1976
The experiment tested the hypothesis that the stress experienced by a person who is unable to control aversive stimulation is not a function of lack of control per se, but of the attribution of causality that one makes for failure to exert control. (Editor)
Descriptors: Experimental Psychology, Experiments, Helplessness, Hypothesis Testing
