>>14416594I read the study. It's the other way around. The 15 minute rats feel hopeless and thus don't try. It's not exhaustion. One rat even died after only 2 minutes, staying at the bottom and never surfacing. The other rats don't feel hopeless and thus at least try. But the largest correlate was just water temperature i.e environment.
It's a very old study, so it's compared against voodoo in humans. A type of death from being boned in voodoo in humans is the same type as in these mice. The belief is what is important. But if one recovers from the hopelessness one is immune to this type of hopelessness death forever, i e one will at least try, both for humans and for mice, the study argues.
