I’d guess a lot of it is an evolved defense mechanism to use learned helplessness to avoid confronting difficult situations more directly. Basically the same just-so explanation as the one behind the “rank theory of depression”, where people who lose a lot of status fights become depressed so they don’t keep losing them.
I’d guess a lot of it is an evolved defense mechanism to use learned helplessness to avoid confronting difficult situations more directly. Basically the same just-so explanation as the one behind the “rank theory of depression”, where people who lose a lot of status fights become depressed so they don’t keep losing them.