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You Are Not So Smart

091 - Learned Helplessness (rebroadcast)

You Are Not So Smart

You Are Not So Smart

Science, Psychology, Brain, Business, Mental Health, Culture, Neuroscience, Mind, Health

4.61.8K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2016

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Even when the prison doors are left wide open, we…

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0:15.7

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0:19.5

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0:53.0

But I'm talking about the power of a gospel.

0:56.0

Everybody, the cool, we are like bad.

1:00.0

They went quiet. Welcome to the You Are Not So Smart Podcast, episode 91. Oh, The biggest fear of an adolescent, Jesse, not fitting in is not fitting in.

1:30.0

You talked about acceptance.

1:32.0

Now to understand how this happens and how this looks and what this feels like,

1:38.0

I'm going to have to do an activity.

1:39.8

This is Penn State Psychology Professor Charise Nixon speaking to a classroom of students recorded

1:45.5

for a video produced by the Ophelia Project, which is an effort by scientists and education professionals

1:51.8

to provide resources and awareness to combat bullying

1:55.6

and other forms of relational aggression, especially the kind that's often

2:00.8

directed at young women. I'm going to pass out these papers and just keep them face down and if you would no one

2:08.7

write on these write on your own papers.

2:11.9

So in this exercise all the students tear out a blank piece of paper that's the

2:15.6

one they're going to write on and then Nixon places face down on each desk

2:18.7

another sheet of paper with three words written on it. The task is to rearrange the letters to

2:24.9

spell out a new word. So if you see the word tab, you could rearrange that to be

2:29.0

bat or lemon could be rewritten as melon. Everybody have one?

2:34.0

If you would, just do them one at a time.

2:37.0

And I will tell you when to do them.

2:39.0

Everybody turn it over, just do your own work.

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