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Revisiting Walter Bradford Cannon's 100-year-old fight-or-flight concept

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  • Vidar Top
  • Carl Åberg
  • Ole Boe

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This study aims to analyse and combine the entire 100-year-long development of fight-or-flight-based research on emotional excitement and behaviour. It presents a comparative concept analysis of all the relevant word pairs that have emerged. A scoping and a targeted literature review were conducted to map word pairs across all related research streams. These reviews facilitated a comparative conceptual analysis. The results were combined to reflect the status quo of fight-or-flight concepts and how well word pairs explain emotions and behaviour relative to communication in conflict. The analysis surfaces violence and silence as an umbrella term. Comparing and contrasting all word pairs helps reduce barriers to cross-disciplinary research on emotional excitement and behaviour. By providing insights into how different concepts are overlapping but not the same, researchers from different paradigms can more easily draw on a full spectrum of findings when moving forward.

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  • Vidar Top & Carl Åberg & Ole Boe, 2024. "Revisiting Walter Bradford Cannon's 100-year-old fight-or-flight concept," International Journal of Management Concepts and Philosophy, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 17(5), pages 1-35.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijmcph:v:17:y:2024:i:5:p:1-35
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