Some individuals who live in a part of the world plagued by warfare and massacre might tend to show somatic symptoms such as blindness as an adaptive way to signal to others that they are not a threat. This type of explanation for a conversion disorder's occurrence is considered in nature
a. cognitive
b. evolutionary
c. biological
d. behavioral
b
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