Tonic Immobility as an Evolved Predator Defense: Implications for Sexual Assault Survivors

By Brian Marx, J. P. Forsyth, G. Gallup, T. Fusé, Jennifer M. Lexington. 2008

235 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Behavioral Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology

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In Behavioral Neuroscience

1. Thomas Elbert

In Cognitive Neuroscience

1. Sherman A. Lee
2. Thomas Elbert
3. M. Schauer

In Social Psychology

1. Sherman A. Lee
2. Thomas Elbert
3. Marcantonio M. Spada
4. Ana V. Nikcevic

Citations in the corpus

• Dissociation Following Traumatic Stress Etiology and Treatment (2010, background): “This unresponsive immobility is elicited most easily during intense fear and some form of physical restraint or perception of entrapment (Marx et al., 2008; Moskowitz, 2004).”
• Coronavirus Anxiety Scale: A brief mental health screener for COVID-19 related anxiety (2020, background): “However, motor inhibition is an involuntary response to extreme fear and perception of inescapability (Marx et al., 2008) and is typically experienced by victims of highly traumatic situations, such as sexual assault (Moller et al., 2017).”