The blog is organized in a hierarchical structure with a parent directory and sub-directories. These represent a main or general category with sub-categories. On this page you will find blog articles about Personal Safety and Self-Protection organized in this fashion i.e., there are general articles on Personal Safety/Self-Protection, and then articles that are classified into certain typologies e.g., articles organized and contained in sub-classifications/typologies, such as "Travel Security", "De-escalation", "Criminal Processes", and "Situational Awareness" etc.

At present there are 268 articles that are categorized as Personal Safety/Self-Protection articles. They are organized into the following ten categories (by clicking on the links below you will be taken to the articles):

• General Personal Safety & Self-Protection Articles
• Criminal Processes
• Situational Awareness
• Effective Decision Making
• Managing Fear & Adrenaline
• De-escalation
• Psychological Factors
• Managing & Mitigating Risk
• Travel Security
• Child Safety

General Personal Safety & Self-Protection Articles

• The Role Of Third Parties & Bystanders In Incidents Of Violence

• The Importance of Self Protection

• Relationship Abuse

• Self Protection: Gaining Defense In Depth

• Perceptions of Violence

• Intervening on Behalf of Strangers

• Removing Heads From Sand

• The False Safety of Crowds

• Would You Ever Get Into A Car With A Stranger?

• Parking Lots

• Personal Safety/Personal Responsibility

• Worst Case Scenarios

• Dogs & Self Protection

• Assertiveness

• Situational Visualization

• OC/CS Spray

• Pepper Spray - Types & How To Use Them

• Adult Bullying/Workplace Bullying

• Convincing Others

• Holiday Shopping Safety

• Walking Away

• Car Services, Taxi's, Crimes & Assaults

• Location - Accepting Reality

• Investment, Optimism & Expectations

• Empowerment Through Personal Safety

• Color Codes & The Timeline of Violence

• Not Limiting Yourself By The Obvious

• Treating Each Step towards Disaster as Normal

• The Value & danger of Experience

• Returning To The Scene Of The Crime

• Justification & Secondary Motives

• Justification For Violence

• Becoming An Active Bystander

• Workplace Violence

• Responsibility And Blame

• Intervening In Domestic Disputes

• What If

• Ignore Them And They Will Go Away

• Personal Safety Blind Spots

• Dog Attacks

• Cyberbullying Adults And Children

• Speaking Out

• Exceptions To The Rules

• Workplace Violence (Trespass)

• Personal Safety & Social Media

• Big Picture Violence

• Jargon And Terminology

• Runners Safety

• Predators & Socially Awkward Situations

• Prescriptive Solutions Vs Situational Solutions

• Violence Towards Animals

• Existential Honor

• Codes And Jargon

• Planning & Preparation

• Relationship

• Security For Elderly Relatives

• Devices As Safety Nets

• Slow In Fast Out

• Working The Pre-Conflict Phase

• Paranoid or Prepared

• Motive

• Spy Tips & Real Life

• The Dangers Of Being Polite

• The Other End Of The Aggression Spectrum

• Fight/Flight: Is it Relevant?

• Routines

• Living With Fear

• Self-Talk & Inner Speech

• Developing A Survival Personality

• Dropping The Call

• Pepper Spray As A First Response

• How Tidying Up Can Save Your Life

• What Ifs

• Why We Walk Down Dark Alleys

• Call Me

• Enforcing Boundaries

• Unintended Consequences

• Elevators Versus Stairs

• The Reluctance To Be Wrong

• Groupthink

• Why We Don't Back Down

• Domestic Violence & Sheltering In Place

• Ignoring the Predator in the Room

• How to turn $20 into $15 000

• Following The Science

• The Illusion of Control

• Competing Outcomes

• Female Sexual Predators

• Incels & Violence

• Parcel Bombs

• Preventing E-Bike Thefts

• Cross Body Bags & Safety

• Virtual Rapes

• The Danger Of Being Right

• Grudges & Revenge

• Digital Deception Part One

• Digital Deception Part Two

• Where Doors Are Weak

• Cell Phone Security

• Hazing

• Stalking And The Counterman Case

• Scams

• Confronting Burglars

• Microaggressions

• Relying On Technology

• Air Travel & Personal Safety

• Why Street Robberies Are Largely Committed by Groups

• Changing Routines

• If, When & When Not to Apologize

• Entryway Behaviors

• Social Awkwardness – Saying No

• The Apple River Stabbing

• Stockholm Syndrome

• Personal Safety Lessons from A.I. (Artificial Intelligence)

• Raoul Moat – The Media & Violence

• First Impressions

• Moving House

• The Motivators & Motivations Behind Street Robberies

• How Safety Tips Disarm Us

• The War Poets & the Romanticization of Violence

• Shakespeare & the Exploration of Violence

• Laptop Cameras and Security

Criminal Processes

• Think Like The Predator

• The 5 Step Predator Process

• The Post Conflict Phase of Violence

• Real Life Predator Process

• Synchronization Of Movement

• Predicting Violence Through Movement

• Timeline of Violence

• Gaining Access

• Scripts

• The 5-Step Predator Process Explained

• The Art of Persuasion – Recognizing When You Are Being Played

• Premeditated Violence – The Fantasy, Planning & Preparation Phases

• Target Search

• Victim Selection

• Surveillance

• Synchronization

• Strike Phase

Self-Protection & Situational Awareness

• Scanning - Control Of The Environment

• Interpreting Body Language

• Mobile Phones & Personal Safety

• Situational Awareness

• Denial - Recognizing The Signs

• Warning Signs

• Intent

• Cell Phones

• Falling for Predator's "Traps"

• Interpreting Body Language

• Natural Surveillance & Bystanders

• Situational Awareness - The Environmental Aspect

• Scanning

• Baselines

• The Pertinent Negative

• Situational Awareness, Mindfulness & Curiosity

• Intent

• Different Situations Different Solutions

• Labeling And Situational Awareness

• Situational Training & The Unconscious Mind

• Cues And Tells

• Responding to Surveillance

Effective Decision Making Under Stress

• Peripheral Doubts

• Denial, Deliberation, Decision Loop - Deliberation

• Reaching Decisions, Acting & Choosing the Right Time to Act

• "Visual" Decision Making

• The Disadvantage of Time

• Decisiveness

• Heuristics & Planning

• Decision Trees

• Simplified Thinking (How Children Think)

• Emotional Intelligence

• Freezing Vs Reluctance To Act (Part 1)

• Freezing Vs Reluctance To Act (Part 2)

• Peripheral Doubts

• Critical Vs Cult-like Thinking

• Options In Context

• Attribution Errors & Biases

• Choices

• The OODA Loop

• Walking The Line

• Consequences

• Seemingly Unimportant Decisions

• Stereotypes

• Bounded Rationality

• Moments of Madness

Managing Fear & Adrenaline

• The Monkey Dance

• Self Protection Continued - People's Instinct For Anger

• Adrenaline (Part 1)

• Adrenaline (Part 2)

• Adrenaline (Part 3)

• Fear Versus Anxiety

• Fear As Context

• Laughing In The Face Of Danger

• Cognitive, Emotional & Physiological Responses To A Threat

• Recovering From A Fight

• Stress & Resilience

• Moving from One World to the Next

• Overreacting: Why we respond to social threats in the same way as physical ones

De-escalation & Social Violence

• Dealing With Angry People - De-escalation

• Lessons From Hostage/Crisis Negotiators

• Dealing With Anger

• De-escalation - Saying Sorry

• Backing Down & Backing Away

• Krav Maga And Conflict Resolution

• De-escalation, Reflective Listening & Non-Complimentary Behavior

• Conflict Communication & Active Listening

• Communication Content

• Win-Win Outcomes

• Conflict Negotiation

• Active Listening

• De-escalate Everything

• Social Information Processing

• Effects of Emotions on Social Information Processing

• De-escalation and Active Listening

• De-escalation & Changing Behaviors

• Communicating in Conflict

• Letting People Be Wrong

Self-Protection and Psychological Factors

• It'll never happen to me

• Resiliency

• It Would Never Happen To Me

• Respect As A Limited Commodity

• Inhibitors to Action

• Internal & External Aggression

• Try Me - The Confusion Between Empowerment And Safety

• Interpreting Faces

• Rituals & Conflicts

• Socially Sanctioned Violence

• Groupthink And Conformity

• Self-Defense & Pavlov’s Dogs

• Interpreting Emotions

• Violence & Pull Factors

• Survivor Bias

• Trauma Bonding

• Social Learning Theory & Bandura’s Bobo Doll

• Freud’s Instinct Theory of Aggression

• The Conjunction Fallacy (The Linda Problem) & Personal Safety

Managing & Mitigating Risk

• Training To Survive

• The Dynamic Risk Assessment - The Denial, Deliberation & Decision Loop

• The Dynamic Risk Assessment

• Threats, Promises, Intimidation & Statements of Intent

• Risk Assessments

• Applying Risk Management

• Prospective Hazard Analysis

• Reading The Threat

• Emergency Preparedness & Risk Registers

• Risk: A Broader Perspective

• An Actuarial Approach to Making Risk Assessments

• Appraising Threats

• Unknown Risk

• The Vantasner Danger Meridian

Travel Security

• Security Overseas

• Security Overseas - Part 2

• Improvised Weapons (Security Overseas Part 2.5)

• Travel Security - Airport Pickups

• School And Airport Safety/Security Etc & How We Address Security Issues In Our Personal Lives

• Flash Mobs & Civil Unrest

• Civil Unrest Part 2

• Ride Sharing Services

• Kidnappings And Risk Assessments

• Air Rage

• Travel Security Lessons

• Preparing For Travel

• Civil Unrest

Child Safety

• Back to School

• Not All Child Molesters Are The Same

• Pedophiles & Secret Keeping

• Successful Violence Prevention Programs

• Alyssa Zinger & Pedophilia