Defense patterns of rats and mice have been characterized in terms of the relationships between the type of defensive behavior (e.g. flight, freezing, hiding, defensive threat/attack, and risk assessment) and particular features of the eliciting (threat) stimulus and the situation in which it is encountered.
Chasing and biting behavior was defined as dominant whereas flight, freezing and vocalization indicated the subordinate posture and thus social stress.
Bob's impact on the field of Behavioral Neuroscience includes the behavior, neurocircuitry, neurochemistry, and pharmacology related to social interactions, aggressive behavior, defensive behaviors, flight, freezing, threat, attack, risk assessment, anxiety disorders, animal models, models of social behavior, and autism.
It conveys "the idea of flight frozen in time," she said, adding, "It looks like it's in motion".
The increased amygdalar activation increases the probability that defense programs mediated by the amygdala-hypothalamus-PAG circuits (flight or fight; freezing) will be activated.
Animals employ several defensive strategies, grossly categorized into flight, freeze and fight.
If one person is getting high off his or her dominance, others are being drummed into submission, experiencing the fight, flight, freeze or appease response I described before, which diminishes their collaborative impulses.
A second important concept from the neuroscience labs that can amplify the contribution of TIC is that every individual is wired with defensive responses (Fight, Flight, Freeze, and Tend and Befriend) that can be automatically and unconsciously triggered by even the perception of threat.
At any rate, when that little sucker kicks in, there's an eight-second burst of chemicals in your brain that demand fight, flight, freeze, or appease.
With Conversational Intelligence, you can know which conversations trigger lower-level brain activity - such as primitive instincts for fight, flight, freeze and appeasement - and which ones spark higher-level brain activity, such as trust, integrity, strategic thinking, empathy, and the ability to process complex situations.
"Some people would argue that... people shouldn't even talk about 'fight or flight.' They should talk about 'fight, flight, or freezing.'".
