Chain Reaction Response

Before acting during an emergency, a person is most likely to scan around and observe whether others are already taking responsibility, or are about to take responsibility for it; if those people in the scene of an emergency are not doing anything, then the person will feel

Fear can have a huge role in an individual's decision making process. Many people make different decisions when they are afraid or scared of something than they normally would. In the article Fear: The Highly Potent Effect Fear Has on Decision Making, the author states, “When you are overcome with fear or panic and have to make a

While fear itself is a healthy emotion, irrational fears cause people to take irrational actions. In The Science of Fear by Daniel Gardner, the aspects of human's response to fear are explained in four different groups. When people experience fear, naturally they come together with the people who share similar beliefs (Gardner 15). Gardner describes this gravitation as “group polarization” and with this comes confirmation bias. When the groups of people come together with the bias they hold to be true if confirmed and strengthened by those who share them (Gardner 15). The actions of these groups are based on the two systems of thinking. System one thinking is fast, involving feelings and emotions. Whereas system two thinking is based on reason and logic within one's actions (Gardner 15). However, the actions caused by fear are sometimes out of the thought of fear rather than the reality of it. The reality is that “ the only thing we have to fear … if fear itself-

Fear can have a huge role in an individual's decision making process. Many people make different decisions when they are afraid or scared of something than they normally would. In the article Fear: The Highly Potent Effect Fear Has on Decision Making, the author states, “When you are overcome with fear or panic and have to make a decision, one of two things happen: You’re frozen by your fear, so you cannot think or act rationally you react

Fear can cause a change in organ functions that changes your behavior towards something or someone. This can cause rapid heart rate, increasing blood pressure, tight muscles, dilated pupils, and sweating. The most common response to fear is panic. Panicking will only make it worse and make you fear it more. This would be the time to use the techniques to control your fear.

Most often, we respond to life’s storms the same way. In panic situations, we usually lose appetite and cut corners on meals. We run our tanks dry fighting the battles on our own and we end up physically weak, emotionally drained and unable to sleep.

The normal reaction to feelings of helplessness and vulnerability is often a need to regain control–

There are a wide variety of responses that people may have such as fight, fly, or freeze. When suddenly startled, people may raise their arms in protective pose, or duck to avoid a perceived object. Some people will immediately attack, some will jump back, while others may drop whatever they are

There are four elements that an adolescent will react to in a crisis situation. First, the emotional responses involve anger, shock, grief, a sense of helplessness, loss of pleasure in everyday activities, terror, guilt and even phobias. These emotional responses then result in cognitive distortions such as impaired decision making, lowered self-esteem, worry, memory impairment and nightmares. The physical effects of the emotional and cognitive changes can also be a detriment of the adolescents health due to having

Fear is something every single human being has at some point in their life. When you are in dangerous, threatening, or scary situations, fear is what your body will feel. It is the ability to identify danger and make a choice to either confront that fear or flee from the situation like for example, if you were to break a vase, you would hide from your parents. That choice is completely up to the victim, and depends on the person. Although fear is handled differently by every person, it is a common emotion that everyone feels. Some seek out to overcome their fears, and seek the feeling of adrenaline they get from overcoming. Others flee the situation and don't think twice about trying to overcome their fear. In worst case scenarios people freeze

One police officer described stress as running in the red. Once an officer is faced with a life-threatening decision, it is done within a fraction of a second. This decision can end a threat instantly if made properly. Consequently, an officer performing routine work runs in the orange. An officer is always alert and observing, but working in the orange, they have a longer period of time to make a decision. Once an incident increases in life threatening, the officer starts to run in the red. Moreover, the officer still has to be calm, cool, and in control, but now decisions have to be made in a split-second. The incident can go from orange to red in a fraction of a second. They can work in the orange, managing their emotions, throughout

People respond to threating or stressful situations in a variety of ways. Biological responses in the body gear up to either fight back against the threat, flee from the threat, or freeze in response to a threat. Sometimes the safest solution is to freeze until the threat as passed or provide opportunity to assess the situation and potentially respond. Victims of sexual violence do not choose between fight, flight or freeze — these responses are automatic without a person thinking about them or making a decision. In other words, in a stressful, threatening or traumatic situation, the brain picks the best option at the time. Trauma usually involves freezing first and then fleeing or fighting.

Fear can create an instinctual response to perceived danger. A good example is of the time my husband and I were alone on a long hike in the jungles of Belize and came upon a fer-de-lance snake that would most likely have killed us with its bite. Without any time passing, my instinct of fight or flight emerged and I pushed my husband out of the way, telling him to run as I did. Also, in an instinctual state of fear, someone can perform tasks they did not think were possible such as being able to lift a

Fear is a normal and an important human reaction to something dangerous, it keeps one out of danger, because fear is disliked and one tries ones best to avoid the object or situation of fear. It causes physical changes known as fight-or-flight reaction, which causes blood pressure to increase and the heart rate to speed up to pump blood to the large muscles used to run away, to balance this the human body has sweat glands which produce perspiration to cool the body.

The emotion that triggers the Safety Brain is fear. It bears repeating: 100% of the time, no exceptions, when someone is being difficult she is scared.