Topic: defensive immobility

While straightforward monitoring and ethological interpretability has made behavior the most commonly used parameter for inferring and characterizing emotional states in animals, there is a long history of cardiac readouts as emotion indicators in the fields of neurosciences and psychology.Conceptual frameworks such as the threat imminence theory, postulating that the distance to a threat influences the selection of a defensive strategy, defined a convincing model to explain the range of possible behavioral responses. However, while autonomic responses proved equally variable and dynamic, ther