Psychologists have emphasized that people experience the fight-or-flight response more than the tend-and-befriend response because
A) the former has greater adaptive value.
B) the research has largely been done with males.
C) research supports the former but not the latter.
D) avoidance responses are more important to survival than are approach responses.

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The emphasis on the fight-or-flight response over the tend-and-befriend response is largely because the majority of research in this area has been conducted with males, whose responses tend to be more fight-or-flight oriented. The tend-and-befriend response, which involves nurturing activities designed to protect oneself and one's offspring and creating and maintaining social networks that may aid in this process, is more commonly observed in females but has been less studied historically.

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