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Defensive responses to threat scenarios in Brazilians reproduce the pattern of Hawaiian Americans and non-human mammals

Shuhama, R ; Del-Ben, C M ; Loureiro, S R ; Graeff, F G

Brazilian journal of medical and biological research, 2008-04, Vol.41 (4), p.324-332 [Periódico revisado por pares]

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Defensive responses to threat scenarios in Brazilians reproduce the pattern of Hawaiian Americans and non-human mammals
Autor: Shuhama, R ; Del-Ben, C M ; Loureiro, S R ; Graeff, F G
Assuntos: Adolescent ; Adult ; Aggression ; Analysis of Variance ; Anxiety - psychology ; Biological Evolution ; BIOLOGY ; Brazil ; Defense Mechanisms ; Defensive strategies ; Escape Reaction - physiology ; Evolution-related responses ; Fear - psychology ; Female ; Hawaii ; Humans ; Immobility Response, Tonic - physiology ; Lipp's Stress Symptoms Inventory for Adults ; Male ; MEDICINE, RESEARCH & EXPERIMENTAL ; Risk Assessment ; Students - psychology ; Surveys and Questionnaires ; Threat scenarios ; Translating ; Urban Population
É parte de: Brazilian journal of medical and biological research, 2008-04, Vol.41 (4), p.324-332
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Descrição: 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 chose the most likely response for each scenario. In agreement with the findings from studies of non-human mammal species, the scenarios were able to elicit different defensive behavioral responses, depending on features of the threat. "Flight" was chosen as the most likely response in scenarios evaluated as an unambiguous and intense threat, but with an available route of escape, whereas "attack" was chosen in an unambiguous, intense and close dangerous situation without an escape route. Less urgent behaviors, such as "check out", were chosen in scenarios evaluated as less intense, more distant and more ambiguous. Moreover, the results from the Brazilian sample were similar to the results obtained in the original study with Hawaiian students. These data suggest that a basic repertoire of defensive strategies is conserved along the mammalian evolution because they share similar functional benefits in maintaining fitness.
Editor: Brazil: Associação Brasileira de Divulgação Científica
Idioma: Inglês;Português

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Defensive responses to threat scenarios in Brazilians reproduce the pattern of Hawaiian Americans and non-human mammals

Shuhama, R ; Del-Ben, C M ; Loureiro, S R ; Graeff, F G

Brazil: Associação Brasileira de Divulgação Científica

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