I am also now bereft of a term for what I thought “learned helplessness” was. Analogous ideas come up in game theory, but there’s no snappy self-contained way available to me for expressing it.
Schelling does talk about strategic self-sabotage, but it captures a lot of deliberated behaviour that isn’t implied in my fake definition.
Also interesting to note, I have read that Epistemic Learned Helplessness blog entry before, and my fake definition is sufficiently consistent with it that it doesn’t stand out as obviously incorrect.
Also interesting to note, I have read that Epistemic Learned Helplessness blog entry before, and my fake definition is sufficiently consistent with it that it doesn’t stand out as obviously incorrect.
Now picturing a Venn diagram with three overlapping circles labelled “epistemic learned helplessness”, “what psychologists call ‘learned helplessness’”, and “what sixes_and_sevens calls ‘learned helplessness’”!
Good chance you’ve seen both of these before, but:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness and http://squid314.livejournal.com/350090.html
Damn, if only someone had created a thread for that, ho ho ho
Strategic incompetence?
I’m not sure if maybe Schelling uses a specific name (self-sabotage?) for that kind of thing?
Schelling does talk about strategic self-sabotage, but it captures a lot of deliberated behaviour that isn’t implied in my fake definition.
Also interesting to note, I have read that Epistemic Learned Helplessness blog entry before, and my fake definition is sufficiently consistent with it that it doesn’t stand out as obviously incorrect.
Now picturing a Venn diagram with three overlapping circles labelled “epistemic learned helplessness”, “what psychologists call ‘learned helplessness’”, and “what sixes_and_sevens calls ‘learned helplessness’”!