Fight/Flight: Is it Relevant?
- Personal Safety
- Mon 29th Oct 2018
The “fight or flight” response is perhaps one of the most quoted pieces of “science”, in self-protection and self-defense circles, however most of the academic/scientific studies, concerning this response – along with freezing – have been conducted in animal populations rather than humans, and have largely involved inter-species conflicts rather than intra-species ones e.g. a big cat, attacking a flock of flamingoes, rather than flamingoes fighting with each other, etc. Whilst, we may share 98% of our DNA, with our next closest species the Bonobos, we are also very distinct from them, both in our social organization, and our communication....
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