Editing Locus of control (section)

===='''Emotional Deficit'''====
In the article by Maier & Seligman<ref name="Maier&Seligman_1976" />, an experiment with rats was conducted in a similar fashion as the human groups mentioned previously. Two groups of rats were shocked while eating, with one group being able to control the shock by jumping in the air and the other group not able to control the shock. The results showed that the uncontrollable group of rats lost their appetite over time. In a similar experiment with humans performing a matching task while being shocked at a timed interval, the uncontrollable group showed high blood pressure consistently<ref name="Maier&Seligman_1976" />. <b>The article argues that uncontrollable circumstances such as the shock experiment in this case results in the eruptions and modifications of emotions</b><ref name="Maier&Seligman_1976" />.