Fight, Flight, or Follow

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The Fight, Flight, or Follow response is a physiological Defense Mechanisms autonomically deployed by the Physical Unit when it perceives a harmful event, attack, or threat to its survival. When the body percieves a threat it may fight to put the threat down, flee from the threat, or submit.[1]

List of Defense Mechanisms

Defence Mechanisms > Fight, Flight, Freeze, or Fawn, Informational Positioning

Related Terms

Defense Mechanisms > Ego Threat

Footnotes

  1. Sosteric, Mike, and Gina Ratkovic. “Fight, Flight, or Follow: Notes on an ‘Invisible’ Adaption.” Socjourn (blog), 2019. https://www.academia.edu/39614512/Fight_Flight_or_Follow