Fight, Flight, or Follow
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Fight, Flight, or Follow
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 > Awareness Reduction Mechanisms, Fight, Flight, Freeze, or Fawn, Informational Positioning
Related Terms
Defense Mechanisms > Ego Threat
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Footnotes
- ↑ 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