A recent analysis by health psychologist Shelley Taylor suggests that physiological responses to stress may have different consequences for females than for males. Specifically, she suggests that females
a. experience fight but not flight.
b. are more likely to experience flight than fight.
c. experience a tend-and-befriend response instead of fight-or-flight.
d. experience both the fight-or-flight response as well as a tend-and-befriend response.
Answer: c. experience a tend-and-befriend response instead of fight-or-flight.
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