Chapter 2.4 Defensive behaviors, fear, and anxiety

Handbook of Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue , 2008, Pages 63-79

  Blanchard, D Caroline ^a   Blanchard, Robert J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

antipredator defense; antipredator defensive behaviors; defense; defensive behaviors; defensive threat and attack; enabling or expediting stimuli; fear anxiety distinction; flight; freezing; human defensive behaviors; risk assessment; threat ambiguity; threat stimuli

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649708292     PISSN: 15697339     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1569-7339(07)00005-7     Document Type: Review

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