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How Authority Figures Can Trigger Nervous System Responses

I start sweating and my heart races when I see police cars even when I'm not doing anything wrong and have never been in trouble with the law.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Unconscious associations with power dynamics are activating fight-or-flight responses to neutral authority presence.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Stress and the nervous system?”

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