title: Richard L. Solomon and learned helplessness.
abstract: This article reviews the course of development of research on a currently popular explanatory approach to dysfunctional behavior, the learned helplessness analysis. The early history is prominent in this review as it reflects the inspirations of Richard L. Solomon, a scholar who fostered the resurgence of psychologists' interests in Pavlovian conditioning in the 1950s and 1960s. Current research is characterized as having four separate themes: elaboration of "symptoms," elucidating the role of fear, explicit modeling, and extensions involving attributional constructs.
authors.affiliation: Center for Research in Learning Perception and Cognition, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55455, USA.
authors.forename: J B
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Overmier
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003214:Conditioning, Classical; D003863:Depression / Q000266:history*; D006380:Helplessness, Learned; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D012106:Research / Q000266:history