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Article: Responding with fight or flight.(FIREARMS TACTICS)
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- Law Enforcement Technology
- Article date:
- October 1, 2008
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The fight or flight syndrome or, 'fight or flight reflex', happens when a person experiences drastic bodily changes when presented with a threat. It is important that those in law enforcement in particular recognize this condition, and know how to respond to some-one experiencing it.
Although most people could recognize the physiological changes in individuals faced with danger, the concept really wasn't developed (and the name "fight or flight" coined) until psychologist Walter Canon described it in the 1920s. Canon made some unique observations about the connection between bodily functions in extreme emotions.
Fight or flight initiates in an area of ...