Uncontrollability as a Source of Cognitive Exhaustion

Implications for Helplessness and Depression
  • Miroslaw Kofta
  • Grzegorz Sedek
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Abstract

In the last three decades, a psychological response to circumstances that jeopardize human striving for control has emerged as a prominent topic in psychological inquiry. Researchers increasingly have asked how loss of control affects human motivation, mood, and cognitive processing. In addition, attention has been directed to the effects of loss of control on psychological well-being, adaptation, and interpersonal relationships.

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Dual Task Negative Life Event Mental Arithmetic Learn Helplessness Counterfactual Thinking 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Miroslaw Kofta
    • 1
  • Grzegorz Sedek
    • 2
  1. 1.Faculty of PsychologyUniversity of WarsawWarsawPoland
  2. 2.Faculty of PsychologyUniversity of Warsaw and Polish Academy of ScienceWarsawPoland

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