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• The tend to befriend response by Taylor Et Al (2000) suggest5that, for females, behavioural responses to stress are more characterised by a pattern of tend and befriend than fight or flight.

  This involves protecting themselves and their nurturing behaviours and forming protecting alliances with other females
• When faced with a dangerous situation our reaction is not limited to the fight or flight response; some psychologists suggest that humans engage in an initial ‘freeze’ response. Gray (1988) suggests that the first response to danger is to avoid confrontation altogether, which is demonstrated by a freeze response. During the freeze response animals and humans are hyper-vigilant, while they appraise the situation to decide the best course of action for that particular threat.