Jeannette L. Nolen
Former Encyclopædia Britannica Editor
Jeannette L. Nolen was an editor in social science at Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Primary Contributions (47)
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…
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