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Unfortunately it's out of date, and fawning and freezing have since been added.
Ah yes the well known biological drive to put leftover food in the freezer.
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You are mixing up the four Fs
Fight Flight Freeze and Fawn as the response to Fear
And functions of hypothalamus that had shit mnemonic put in textbook.
Those are trauma responses, not exactly the same sort of list as basic biological drives. Inter-related, certainly, but not quite the same.
I’m just proud I got through this comment without saying “ackshually”.
Flop, funster, fib... It's like some authors need to leave their mark on that list by adding yet another F.
Fawning? As in giving birth? Giving adoration? Acting childish?
Deer in headlights.
That's freezing.
Sucking up to the oppressor. Stockholm syndrome is an extreme example. It prioritises long term survival over freedom.
Basically, be nice to the bastard aggressive boss, and hopefully he won't fire you for looking at him funny.
it doesn't matter how many f words they come up with, we're all saying the same one in the moment
ironically, the person experiencing all of the f things are all thinking the same f word regardless