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| Shuhama,R.; Del-Ben,C.M.; Loureiro,S.R.; Graeff,F.G.. |
| A former study with scenarios conducted in Hawaii has suggested that humans share with non-human mammals the same basic defensive strategies - risk assessment, freezing, defensive threat, defensive attack, and flight. The selection of the most adaptive strategy is strongly influenced by features of the threat stimulus - magnitude, escapability, distance, ambiguity, and availability of a hiding place. Aiming at verifying if these strategies would be consistent in a different culture, 12 defensive scenarios were translated into Portuguese and adapted to the Brazilian culture. The sample consisted of male and female undergraduate students divided into two groups: 76 students, who evaluated the five dimensions of each scenario and 248 medical students, who... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Defensive strategies; Threat scenarios; Evolution-related responses; Lipp's Stress Symptoms Inventory for Adults. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-879X2008000400011 |
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