Not trying leads to apathy and powerlessness, and this can lead to all-or-nothing thinking. Nothing I do matters. I always lose. This phenomenon exists in many animal species as well as in humans.

Poor people's lives are characterized by powerlessness and voicelessness, which limit their choices and define the quality of their interactions with employers, markets, the state, and even ...

Addiction exercises enormous power over all those who are touched by it. This book argues that power and powerlessness have been neglected in addiction studies and that they are a unifying theme that ...

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Another example of how this area of the brain is exploited is when the two parties block or disparage any third-party candidate, transmitting a sense of “nothing changes anyway” powerlessness ...

It is the enduring myth of Diaspora Jewish powerlessness, and the corollary myth of craven, ineffectual Jewish leadership. These myths work to make the reality of modern Jewish power invisible by ...

Instead of reacting, we can act because we have an internal locus of control. In contrast, we may feel powerless and victims ...

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