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Learned helplessness in Rats - Bruce Nauman Nauman culled the title phrase from an article published in Scientific American in 1987 titled “Stressed Out: Learned Helplessness in Rats Sheds Light on Human Depression.” Here the artist parodies a laboratory experiment and questions the social and scientific belief that human nature can be improved through controlled environments and behavioral retraining.

Learned helplessness in Rats - Bruce Nauman

Nauman culled the title phrase from an article published in Scientific American in 1987 titled “Stressed Out: Learned Helplessness in Rats Sheds Light on Human Depression.” Here the artist parodies a laboratory experiment and questions the social and scientific belief that human nature can be improved through controlled environments and behavioral retraining.


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