[danybittel]

This sounds a lot like Learned helplessness: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness

[tetris11]

> Most of the Group 3 dogs—which had previously learned that nothing they did had any effect on shocks—simply lay down passively and whined when they were shocked

What a cruel time for experimenting on animals the 1960s were...

[mahogany]

Animal cruelty is alive and well in the factory farming industry, at a yearly scale orders of magnitude higher than the sum of all research experimentation in science during the 1960s.