Fight or Flight was a trem coined by Walter Cannon[1], and it describe a system that react to threats. In the begging only to reaction were detected - Fight or Flight. But as the research in this area proressed it is now knowen to consist of one imdiate reaction, and three optional coarse of actions[2]. The first is Freeze. When a threat is suspected or detected, the brain will give order to freeze and try to detect or estimate the what kind of threat it is. Then three options will follow. In most cases it is better to run a way from danger (Which is named Flight). When the danger is unavoidable, then either the brain will give instruction to fight the danger, and if it is to strong and we can not escape, the last option we be to surrender in hope that the attacker will leave us alone and will not atack us. The last option is called Fright. So today we can calll this reaction Freeze, Flight, Fight or Fright (FFFF).
It seems that most of the system is located in Amygdala[3][4][5][6][7] and in other areas of the limbic system[8]. In due time and with effortful control the system can be thought and mainpulated. When signals of threat are intiated, a reaction signals are send from the amygdala to the brain steam and to the prefrontal cortex[9].
People how feel thretend or intimidated from social circumstances, will become more conservatives. A socail stress will occuer and the FFFF system will intiate a reaction to the threat. They will be more aggresive (fight) or detached (flight) or depressesed (fright), depending of their patern of reaction.
The FFFF system will be more active in people who grow in a harsh invoriment with social threats and parental criticism.
The limbic system is connected to decision making with rewrds in the short range[10].
The modulation between FFFF reaction and normal system 1-system 2 decision making mechanisem is seems to be by the right CBF[11] and the ACC.
Threat reaction in women
It seems the women have different stress reaction, which promote defending ofsprings and strengthening the social ties, so that the group can be stronger[12]. I suggest that such a reaction also exists in men, and it help them tight social bonds wthin the group, and though, strengh social capital, and strength the group abilities to attack or defend as a whole[13][14][15]. The group become more conformtive (I belive it is because of FFFF reaction inhibiting the ACC)[16][17][18].
Related subjects
- Decision making in dangerous situations[19].
- Theological assay on risk, decision making and addiction to risks
References
- ↑ Cannon WB, 1932, The wisdom of the body, New York, Norton
- ↑ S. Bracha at al, 2004, Does "Fight or Flight" Need Updating?, Psychosomatics 45:448-449, October
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- ↑ Liddell et al. A direct brainstem–amygdala–cortical dalarmT system for subliminal signals of fear, NeuroImage 24(2005)235– 243
- ↑ Samuel M. McClure, David I. Laibson, George Loewenstein and Jonathan D. Cohen, 2004, Separate Neural Systems Value Immediate and Delayed Monetary Rewards, Science 15 October 2004: Vol. 306 no. 5695 pp. 503-507
- ↑ Hariri Ahmad, Bookheimer Susan, Y Mazziotta, John C, 2000, Modulating emotional responses: effects of a neocortical network on the limbic system, Neuroreport:17 January 2000 - Volume 11 - Issue 1 - p 43-48
- ↑ Behavioral responses to stress in females: Tend-and-Befriend not Fight or Flight, 2000, Taylor et al. psycological review 107(3), 411-29
- ↑ Geary, D.C., & Flinn, M.V. (2002). Sex differences in behavioral and hormonal response to social threat: Commentary on Taylor et al.(2000). Psychological Review, 109, 745–750.
- ↑ Kenrick, D.T., & Johnson, G.A. (1979). Interpersonal attraction in aversive environments: A problem for the classical conditioning paradigm? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 37, 572–579.
- ↑ Taylor, S.E., Klein, L.C., Lewis, B.P., Gruenewald, T.L.,Gurung, R.A.R., & Updegraff, J.A. (2000). Biobehavioral responses to stress in females: Tend-and-befriend, not fight-orflight. Psychological Review, 107, 411–429.
- ↑ Griskevicius, V., Goldstein, N.J., Mortensen, C.R., Sundie, J.M.,Cialdini, R.B., & Kenrick, D.T. (2009). Fear and loving in Las Vegas: Evolution, emotion, and persuasion. Journal of Marketing Research, 46, 384–395.
- ↑ Griskevicius, V., Goldstein, N., Mortensen, C., Cialdini, R.B., & Kenrick, D.T. (2006). Going along versus going alone: When fundamental motives facilitate strategic (non)conformity. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 91, 281–294.
- ↑ Griskevicius, V., Tybur, J.M., Sundie, J.M., Cialdini, R.B.,Miller, G.F., & Kenrick, D.T. (2007). Blatant benevolence and conspicuous consumption: When romantic motives elicit strategic costly signals. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 93,85–102.
- ↑ Tom Schonberg, Craig R. Fox and Russell A. Poldrack,Mind the Gap: Bridging economic and naturalistic risk-taking with cognitive neuroscience, Trends Cogn Sci. 2011 January; 15(1): 11–19.