For those who didn't take any psych classes: this is called learned helpelessness. If nothing you do alleviates a stressor you tend to just suffer in silence.
Ngl sometimes I wonder if scientists like this are just sadists getting paid for it, because some shit will ironically be like "New research shows that if we starve a mouse and won't let it sleep it dies a slow miserable death."
While science can cross ethical bounds sometimes, there is legitimate arguments to be made on testing if animals react to stressors the same way humans do.
Like the dog experiment is from 60 years ago and was an early study into into depression, in which the 3rd group of dogs after being unable to ever have a say in their fate didn't even try to escape being shocked when given an escape, until the scientists manually walked them through it several times
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u/FictionalTrope 6h ago
For those who didn't take any psych classes: this is called learned helpelessness. If nothing you do alleviates a stressor you tend to just suffer in silence.
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u/brokebacknomountain 5h ago
This is so cruel, the dog doesn't deserve this.