Assertion: helplessness | /r/HasProperty | mental state
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text: Learned helplessness, in psychology, a mental state in which an organism forced to bear aversive stimuli, or stimuli that are painful or otherwise unpleasant, becomes unable or unwilling to avoid subsequent encounters with those stimuli, even if they are “escapable,” presumably because it has learned that it cannot control the situation.
text: Learned helplessness in psychology is a mental state in which a person who faces an unpleasant situation develops a cognitive expectation to ‘live with it’.